It was pure imperialism, everyone was doing it.

And yes there were people there.

Uniting your people <:unequal:473954748517842954> colonization

????

They are Asian!

But there were no Russians east of the Urals.

The uniting happened west of the Urals.

I'm talking about the Siberia issue

they didn't conquered east of the Urals, they were trying to flee from the baby eating Kraut

As for Eastern eurals, it's not to the extent of the westerners, and it is directly connected to Russia, the westerners went to foreign land.

The conquest of Siberia was commercial to control the fur trade, and it started off as retaliatory to Tatar raids.

Fuck this braindead revisionist uniting muh people garbage

Read a book.

oh, i forgot how much money fur trade made

The claim that Russians didn't want to control shitskins is pretty moronic because a primary facet of Siberian colonization was exacting tribute from natives.

Sounds like communist Propaganda but ok

No, it's history that was established before the Bolsheviks even existed.

You just don't read.

No where near the extent of shitskinning the westerners did

No it's actually often compared to it.

Look at the Russian land mass. Also don’t forget Alaska was once part of Russia.

Russia did the same thing to natives that other Europeans did.

I've never seen it compared to western colonization.

Doing that to natives is natural, it's not immediately equal to muh colonization

If anything the existence of Russian fur traders is a myth. The Russians coerced natives into paying a fur tax rather than getting it for themselves. While natives died of disease and genocide settlers replaced them and started getting fur for themselves.

Why is it not colonization? Have you never heard of Vladivostok?

Does that city just not exist to you?

The Russians colonized Siberia.

Anon you have no fucking clue what you're talking about bud.

Just stop pressing enter.

Remove that key from your keyboard.

I mean they even tried to force convert natives. They did the exact same thing every European country did.

They're not any different.

The "colonization" of Africa is less colonization than what the Russians did honestly.

Nvmd, I just googled what I was about to ask, message deleted

I'm curious about what your question was.

It was something about Novosiberisk

Even so, Slavic unity should exist to a degree

Strongly disagree. South Slavs have an extremely divergent culture from Russia.

Russia was created by vikings.

Poland existed independently with its own culture for centuries before being destroyed.