Russian’s Vietnam: The Soviet Afghan War (1979-1989). It was a superpower only rivalled by the USA. This is when the country further expanded and gained the territory of the Ukraine and Baltic States.Īfter the Second World War the Soviet Union stretched from the Pacific to Berlin, from the Arctic to the boarders of Afghanistan. Peter the Great and Catherine the Great had the ambitions to make Russia a part of the western world. In the 16th century, the country had access to Ural Mountains, the Caspian Sea and Arctic Circle. This is why Ivan the Terrible has decided to use attack as a defence and aggressively expanded the country to make sure that it gains a solid buffer zone (the hinterland). Unfortunately, the Grand Principality of Muscovy was difficult to defend - it lacked natural fortifications such as mountains, deserts or big rivers. Continuous mongol raids forced the Slavic ancestors to flee to Moscow. However, in the future, the USA can become Russia’s competitor on the European market through the export of LNG (Liquefied Natural Gas). Russia is the world’s second biggest supplier of natural gas (Nord Stream, Yamal, Blue Stream). The biggest Russian dream: to control a warm water port, where the water does not freeze in winter and has free access to world’s major trading routes. While most of its states were historically separate countries, there are many ‘Stans’, which borders were deliberately drawn by Stalin as to weaken each state by ensuring it had large minorities of people from other states. Much of the Russian Federation is not ethnically Russian and pays little allegiance to Moscow (e.g. But it’s also a harsh land with poor soil for farming and large stretches of swampland. Siberia is Russia’s treasure chest, containing the majority of the mineral wealth. You can see Russia from America (Alaska).ħ5 percent of its territory is in Asia, while only 22 percent of its population lives there. Its agricultural growing season is short, the country struggles to adequately distribute what is grown around the eleven time zones which Moscow governs.
Nowadays, it takes about six days to cross the country. Even though it is twice the size of the USA, its population is smaller than that of Nigeria or Pakistan. The Russian Federation consists of 21 countries. “I am dreaming of a day when Russian soldiers can wash their boots in the warm waters of the Indian Ocean and switch to year-round summer uniforms” - Zhirinovsky Geography ’ - Are you European or are you Asian? - Neither, I am Russian.’ “There is nothing which they admire so much as strength, and there is nothing for which they have less respect than for military weakness.” - Churchill
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