How did this country ever survive to the modern age? Serious

>>2686887
>How come more industrialized/advanced nations like Poland and Sweden didn't conquer it?
t. pollack

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>>2686887
It isn't a country, it's a motherfucking continent.

>>2686959

Just putting it out there: learning Russia's Oblasts "and friends" is a challenging project which may be rewarding to /his/-geography autists.

And this is THE quiz to use.

https://www.sporcle.com/games/1447/russia_federal_subjects_map

>>2686959
>no crimea
old map.

>>2686887
I'm more interested in why it hasn't balkanised by now, given this:
>>2686959

>>2686991
>Occupied Ukrainian national territory is part of Russia

Good one

>>2686887
How come Russia is able to keep coming back despite being 95% worthless ice and having a history of becoming a complete rampaged-over pile of flaming wreckage repeatedly?

Russia has been fucked so hard and so often, but it blows the fuck out of Africa. What gives? Don't say something racist either, what's a real answer?

>>2687301
>95% worthless ice
There's your answer.

>>2687301
infrastructure and a population of innovators

>>2687309
I don't get it. How does that help? That's just more crushing poverty. And nothing fuels internal strife quite like poverty and hunger.

>Why didn't Poland conquer Russia

wew

>>2687287
Try to take it back though.

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>>2686887
>How come more industrialized/advanced nations like Poland and Sweden didn't conquer it?
>more industrialized/advanced
>Poland

>>2686887
> and a wealth of natural resources.

Maybe her wealth of natural resources helped along the way?

Also, in modern times the nuclear arsenal seems like a nice little helper in keeping Americans from bringing '''''freedom''''''.

>>2689481
They were more advanced in the past. Sweden fought lots of wars in russia

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>>2689481
>industrialized Poland
This was truth back in the 1925

>>2686887
>Even today, it's only claim to fame is having the world's largest nuclear arsenal and a wealth of natural resources
>stupid Polack doesnt want to mention all the things Russians achieved in space because his country will never be able to do anything like this in hundreds of years
>also no mention of their super reliable weaponry and military tech because again stupid butthurt Polack

>>2687301
In Africa people were living like tribes and saw no reason to modernize. They don't have the knowledge to just build a nation.
Russians get btfo but they still have the same knowledge they had before. So they just get back to doing what they were doing.

>>2687111
Russians are majority everywhere

even in the non-russian republics

>>2686887
Russia was always militarily powerful, as far back as the founding of Russia by Rurik. Only the mongols managed to truly cuck them, everyone else got BTFO

>>2689567
> Only the mongols managed to truly cuck them
Not all Russian states were conquered or even invaded by the Mongols. Msocow(except for 1382) and Novgorod managed to survive and prosper.

>>2689578
Only novgorod was truly independent, all the others were vassals of the mongols

>>2689556
They are a minority in all North Caucasian republics and Tatarstan

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>>2686887
>>2686941
>>2689494
>M- Muh Carolus Rex!!

>>2689603
G*rmanics got raped by the superior Slav race

>>2687287
>Crimea
>Ukrainian national territory
i want this meme to stop

>>2689602
yeah that's true

but tatars are pro-russian, and the caucasus tried to rebel but they were bombed into submission

other places where russians are a minority or don't exist are usually inhabited by tribal eskimo like people who don't care which government they are part of on paper

>Poland

Had all the cards in its hand, and plenty of opportunities to strangle Muscovy in its cradle. Failed primarily due to its retarded political system.

>Sweden

Nice population, bro. What are you going to do with it? Declare war on all of Europe? Really? Okay then.