How the fuck do the Ruskies defend all of that land?
>defend
From who?
>>52302731
Mosquitoes ridden unpenetrable bogs ready to swallow the incoming invaders and underground nuclear ICBM sites set up by ancient aliens thousands of years ago to defend the Motherland.
Pic related.
>>52302731
they don't. most of that shit is uninhabited icy wastelands
>>52302781
Europeans, Turks, Japs, the Chinese.
They don't have to.
The land is there to defend them.
>>52302815
Russia has most force stationed at the West, blockading Eu/Turkey
China is an ally, still under the Communist Party
Japan has no army bc of Article 9
Russia has nukes, any country that dares trying to annex a portion of Russian clay would get a Tsar bomb on the capital.
Russia had more land and lost most of it desu.
>>52302731
Funfact: The reason Putin went so hardline in the Chechen war was because he was worried a soft stance would give the West an opportunity to stage a balkanization of Russia.
>>52303165
That would have been fun, especially if we could have annexed the Russian Far East.
>>52303165
More like because Ichkerian scum practiced human and drug trafficking, robbery, violence, terrorism, ethnic cleansings and black marketing right at Russia's borders and on the top of that attacked Dagestan.
>>52302731
They have their former SSRs as buffers.
>>52302933
>China is an ally
don't be retarded
>>52303694
What do you mean?
>>52303800
Never trust China. They attack us once, they'll do it again.
>>52302731
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HE6rSljTwdU
>>52302731
by effectively destroying all empires which happen near our borders while pushing those borders as far from the heartland as possible? the basic thing all land empires do.
it's too cold
>>52302731
Like this.
>>52304426
And this
>>52302731
Parts of the border are guarded vigilantly by sophisticated automated guards.
>>52303800
A China/Russia alliance isn't a sure thing. It's why Nixon opened relations with China.
>West Siberian lowland
how the fuck do they manage this huge piece of their country?
>>52303165
But majority who lives in East of Russia are white European Russians, same as west Russia. They will never support balkanization Only places like Chechnia and Tatarstan are not Slavic Majorty.
>>52302731
We don't
>>52303694
>>52304667
they dont. most of it is uninhabited
>>52304667
It's a huge swamp, probably the biggest in the world. There's nothing to manage there.
>>52304817
Sooner or later they're gonna exploit the land, it's full of natural resources (mostly gas)
>>52304855
>probably the biggest in the world
It actually is. It just seems so mysterious and eerie when I look at it. It looks fucking scary looking at it on Google Earth
>>52302731
They don't, it defends itself thanks to the mostly uninhabitable cold temperatures
Would be cool to one day see a civilized Russia all across the country though
>>52304248
The part about lack of food in Siberia and Far East is total bullshit.
t. attended lectures on Siberian economy and business in 16-19 centuries
>>52304884
It is pretty scary actually.
Most parts of my region are inaccessible by convenient means of transportation. Gas/oil miners use helicopters to lift people and equipment there.
KhMAO, YaNAO and North of Tomsk Oblast barely have local population outside major cities (most of which grew out of mining settlements too).
>>52305030
Is there any literature, any scary stories talking about this place? Would love to read it in Russian
Just fell in love with the W Siberian Plain
>>52302731
>How the fuck do the Ruskies defend all of that land?
We lost fucking everything. Google Russian Empire maps. There was the glory.
>>52304695
>Tatarstan are not Slavic Majorty.
Tatar 53,15 %
Russians 39,65 %
During Imperial times Russians were a majority.
USSR promoted minority policy in every region.
Kazakhstan was Russian land before USSR.
I mean like really Russian with almost 100% Russian cities.
Then USSR genocided Russians there because they did not want socialism and imported churkas from -stans there.
And shit like that in most regions.
>>52305089
I don't really know, I'm not into literature. Siberia has always been a place of exile, so there should be plenty of Red Terror stories, like https://ru.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haзинcкaя_тpaгeдия
>>52302933
Not because it's ally. The defence of east will go other way. In case of invasion it will be deadly wasteland, in case with advance from China will be able to cut their supplies easily.
>>52305089
There are some stories about swamp lights.
But I dunno m8, try to goodle. Бoлoтныe oгни.
>>52305199
>>52305254
Thanks Rusbros, I badly need some spoopy stores for the long winter nights
>>52305319
Also to add >>52305199 this guy. Russians in Siberia were one of the largest targets for soviet's terror. A lost of men and women and children killed and a lot of them moved from Siberia by force to different -stans so they work there in the name of churkas.
A working link
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9D%D0%B0%D0%B7%D0%B8%D0%BD%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%8F_%D1%82%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B3%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%B8%D1%8F
Also if you enjoy Siberia try watching Cчacтливыe люди.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bITElb4l_SY
Or in English: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbhPIK-oBvA
>>52305454
>Cчacтливыe люди
Watched it already, one of the comfiest documentaries ever.
Do you perhaps have anything similar? Or just a good geographical documentary about Siberia, preferably in Russian?
Bлaди́миp Bлaди́миpoвич Пýтин
>>52303800
China doesn't care for friendship at all. China is like a genocide run player in Undertale.
>>52303863
>They attacked us once
When?
>>52305501
Sorry, cant remember anything good.
It is mostly documentaries about muh minorities.
>>52305764
There is no good source in Eglish for some unknown reason.
It is called Damanskiy conflict.
Chinese attacked Russian border troopers on the island in 1969.
58 Russians dead, 800 Chinese dead.
Bodies of Russian troops were humiliated and mutilated.
As a result island became Chinese.
>>52305765
meh
although I find Khanty and Mansy people interesting, they live in the heart of this god-forsaken swaps
>>52302731
>defend
nobody else wants to live there
>>52305876
And still we are flooded with churka durka.
>>52306101
churka durka are just waiting for putin to die, because he gives them shittons of money.
i'm not even kidding
>>52306192
>them shittons of money.
Em no.
He gives it to our "citizens" - churka durkas from Northern Caucasus.
But still there are a shittons of other churkas from Caucasus, from Middle Asia, even from India.
>>52306306
think what you want. we thought the exact same thing about tito, look how that ended
as we in serbia call that politics: after me - flood
>>52306359
But we dont have welfare or anything for them. Still they come in millions.
>>52306611
you have more than they have in their respective shitholes
>>52305501
It's not documentary nor scary, jan pona mi o, but I guess you are going to like it: http://www.kinopoisk.ru/film/582591/
