How has Russia been able to hold onto such a large country for

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>>2613189

>>2613189
>How was the Far East held by the 19th Century Russians, for example?
Shitty railroads, guns, Qing China being a decayed joke, the nips not being industrialized yet.

There is fucking nothing in Siberia.

>>2613189
>How was the Far East held by the 19th Century Russians, for example?
because there wasn't really much in the way of competition. all there was out there were primitive siberian peoples, a decaying qing empire that was busy being tied up tons of civil unrest and other foreigners trying to poach more relevant regions, the other great powers just not giving a shit, and the japanese being very late to the party. by the time the japanese finally showed up(turn of the 20th century), russian control was more or less cemented.

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>>2613335

Okay, sure, let me rephase the question.

How were Russian leaders able to hold onto this territory west of the Urals, the size of which rivals the rest of Europe?

Why did it never break apart like the rest of Europe did?

>>2613687
By killing directly or indirectly everyone who were the threat to them. And I'm not memeing or joking. They used minorities as cannon fodder in the battles, that were made to be lost. Or used those minorities to spread terror. Or other ways, like Oprichnina.

>>2613687
It was a wasteland that nobody wanted at the time. Outside of your occasional horse fucker who were either killed or assimilated, it was pretty easy to manage given Russia's population.

>>2613687
Genociding uppity minorities, secret police, Russian immigration.

Russia would be like if America kept it's promises to the amerinidians.

>>2613936

What promise did Russia make that America didn't keep?