Wow. You brought in so much here! and it really is all interlinked. My dad, who grew up in the Soviet Union, was telling me the other day how they were literally taught in school that Siberia was "empty land" before it became part of Russia (not true, obviously). He was telling me about a Russian historian who did a timeline comparison recently of Russian colonization of Siberia, and European states' colonization all over the world and said it was startling to see the parallels.
Wow. You brought in so much here! and it really is all interlinked. My dad, who grew up in the Soviet Union, was telling me the other day how they were literally taught in school that Siberia was "empty land" before it became part of Russia (not true, obviously). He was telling me about a Russian historian who did a timeline comparison recently of Russian colonization of Siberia, and European states' colonization all over the world and said it was startling to see the parallels.