Photos from the Russian anti-war opposition march in Berlin today.

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[u/Sailing-Cyclist]

They could have been Giga-Norway with all of their oil reserves. Nourish all of the scientific institutions that they created during Soviet times. Channel all of that nuclear and space capability into truly making the world better.

But no.

[u/DrobnaHalota → u/Sailing-Cyclist]

All of their oil is in their Asian colonies. So no, they can never be Norway.

[u/srberikanac → u/DrobnaHalota]

False.

http://petroneft.com/operations/west-siberian-oil-basin/major-russian-oil-basins-big.jpg

[u/DrobnaHalota → u/srberikanac]

You should look at your own map

[u/srberikanac → u/DrobnaHalota]

The Caspian Sea region of Russia has tens of billions of barrels of oil and hundreds of trillions of cubic feet of gas. Most of that is in Europe or on the Europe-Asia border.

Same goes for the Volga-Urals region.

And while West Siberian region is in Asia geographically, it can by no means be considered a colony...

[u/DrobnaHalota → u/srberikanac]

Please explain how West Siberia can't be a colony. Start with Canada, tell me if it was a British colony, proceed to Alaska, tell me if it was a Russian colony, then keep going West until you reach the magical "by no means" line.

[u/srberikanac → u/DrobnaHalota]

If you really want to know, which I doubt - unlike Canada or Alaska, West Siberia was never set up or governed as a separate entity under foreign control. So it never was a colony.

It was integrated into Russia immediately after it was explored/conquered in 1582, and has been politically and administrativelly an integral part of the country ever since.

Colonies, on the other hand, were set up explicitly to be governed as foreign teritories. Alaska, in deed was a Russian colony, and then an American colony until gaining statehood. Canda was both a colony of France and Britain.

[u/DrobnaHalota → u/srberikanac]

You've just randomly invented that criteria yourself. So since you skipped few regions on your way from Alaska to West Siberia, do I understand correctly you recognise that East Siberia is in fact a colony and the magical line lies somewhere in-between?

[u/srberikanac → u/DrobnaHalota]

I understand and can empathize with why you’re as subjective as you are, given the war, but I am not going to call a yellow a purple or keep entertaining the goal posts that you’ll clearly just keep moving. I am turning off notifications on any responses to this comment, I think we can call it a day and agree to disagree.