More?
Somehow, "Ancient maps"-threads always seem to win. Don't make this an exception, Anon.I'd assist with some delicious repost, but my upload keeps failing.
>>172537I like how that map says "Russian America" for Alaska. I wonder how much Russia was kicking themselves during the cold war for selling it =)
>>172542Not one fucking bit.
Hope I haven't posted these before>>172520more would be nice :)
>>172542faghttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_colonization_of_the_Americas#Alaska
>>172978and your point is?I'm just saying that if they wanted to beat america during the cold war, in hindsight it was dumb to sell alaska
>>173175it was dumb just from a mineral assets standpoint, but Russia needed the money at the time whats done is done.
>>173175i don't understand your point... Alaska was sold LONG before the cold war !Also it was far away from mainland russia and at the time it was of no mineral/etc interest so it was not dumb at all to sell it.
They have barely begun to access all the resources in their own section of Arctic wasteland (Sibera).
I have this in a puzzle with 500 pieces.