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Originally Posted by wilpuri
It is a geopolitical fact, but considering my background, I find it very hard to find moral and ideological justification for Russian colonialism & imperialism.
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As for me, I was neither justifying nor condemning it, just stating a plain fact that Russians have been there (in Siberia, that is) for the last 450 years at least. Noone had ever conquered that area before, there were only several Palaeo-Siberian tribes there, scattered across the tundra, probably very few in numbers, which did not yield any significant resistance. The case of Russian rule in Finland (1806-1918) and in the Baltic is of entirely different nature and cannot be compared with Siberia.