HeavenlyPossum on Nostr: When Russia sold Alaska to the US in 1867, it did so as a colonial power, a peer of ...
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"content": "When Russia sold Alaska to the US in 1867, it did so as a colonial power, a peer of the US imperialist project. It was not transferring “Russian” territory but rather the lands and indigenous peoples of Alaska, whom Moscow had conquered, as chattel.\n\nhttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territorial_evolution_of_Russia\n\n2/",
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