How did Russia become so big?

>>70471
because it's a barren wasteland filled with nothing of no value anyone wants, so nobody has bothered to capture and take any of the frozen wilderness and keep it

>>70471
Nobody wanted their land.

>>70471

Miles and miles of empty forest. Not very impressive desu

>>70500
2 idiots tried tho

>>70471
No competitors for the most part, no organized local resistance, little to none investment in newly captured areas. It's easy to paint a fuckhuge part of the map your colour on the basis of a few of your guys having been there several years ago.

>>70471
Noone cared who they were until they put on the Moscow

>>70519
Not really empty, wildlife is awesome up there.

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>>70656
>you'll never cuddle a manul

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>>70707
>tfw only 50 or so Amur leopards left.

>>70471
Cossaks

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>>70707
>>71190

Russian wildlife thread?

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>>70588
Underrated