it really was a retarded decision by them, they were more surprised that somebody even wanted an area nobody lived in that's cold, and it was so far away from them... but then you look at the warm water current that makes the entire coastline habitable, even enjoyable, with better weather than 90% of russia, and you realize how retarded russia was for selling it. russia has the cold side of the currents that turns a bunch of their land into frozen windy shitholes with no trees, america has the warm side that turns alaska winters somewhat like new england weather. i guess russia didn't even factor this in, they just said > it's cold and it's far away, we don't need it.
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