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victy88
07/12/17 8:41:16 PM
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Really, much smaller surrounding places used to be even smaller-er.
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Duncanwii
07/12/17 8:46:45 PM
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And most of it is uninhabitable wasteland. So much snow.
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UnholyMudcrab
07/12/17 8:51:13 PM
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After they beat up the khanates, there was no one else who could really contest them for Siberia.
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victy88
07/12/17 8:55:17 PM
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the mongorians?
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FighterStreet
07/12/17 8:56:13 PM
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it's the canada of europe
incredibly nationalistic, yet incredibly pointless
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UnholyMudcrab
07/12/17 9:07:16 PM
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victy88 posted...
the mongorians?

The Mongol Empire had been gone for over 300 years by that point
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PolishCockatiel
07/12/17 9:10:08 PM
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FighterStreet posted...
it's the canada of europe
incredibly nationalistic, yet incredibly pointless

Canada? Nationalistic? Yeah right.
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victy88
07/12/17 9:20:10 PM
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Let's make this about Canada.
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MJ_Max
07/12/17 9:21:22 PM
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Duncanwii posted...
And most of it is uninhabitable wasteland. So much snow.

This is probably why.
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Zack_Attackv1
07/12/17 9:23:32 PM
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Nobody else wanted that pissing ground.
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COVxy
07/12/17 9:26:58 PM
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Tbf, it's relative size on a traditional 2d map is likely distorted.
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Bat178
07/12/17 9:28:59 PM
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Most of it is empty forest, especially the Asian part. Three-quarters of the population live in the European part, with only the big cities like Yekaterinburg, Vladivostok and Khabarovsk being really populated in the Asian part.
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UnholyMudcrab
07/12/17 9:46:00 PM
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Highwind07 posted...
IIRC Catherine the Great said "expand everywhere because I told you to".

They'd already reached the Pacific by the time Catherine (or even Peter) came to power. Most of the expansion during their reigns was to the west and south, against Sweden, Poland, and the Ottoman Empire.
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victy88
07/12/17 11:08:02 PM
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Tbf, it's relative size on a traditional 2d map is likely distorted

Exactly, people during the cold war were ****ing stupid and thought it was eating the eastern hemisphere.

I am not being sarcastic, but do not know how to show that without sounding sarcastic.
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