Certainly long before the Louisiana purchase, and other westward expansion. Russia is less of a prison of nations that the US is.

  • Tervell [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    belongs, legally, to Lithuania - Muscovy stole it

    LITHUANIA LITERALLY "STOLE" IT IN THE FIRST PLACE! That was territory of the Kievan Rus, and after that state collapsed into its constituent duchies, Lithuania gobbled a bunch of the western ones up. What the fuck even is this understanding of history - every country other than Russia just dropped fully-formed out of the sky, with their borders already set? Only Russia has ever conquered other territories? Just what

    • hexaflexagonbear [he/him]
      hexagon
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      2 years ago

      I don't think you can steal a word anyway. It just makes me think about grandpa simpson talking about how Germans stole their word for twenty.

    • kristina [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      critical support to the lithuanian pagans in their struggle against imperialist christian nations :thinkin-lenin:

    • Diogenes_Barrel [love/loves]
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      2 years ago

      Lithuania stole rightfully mongol clay, Russia actually belongs to the successors of the Great Khan