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>>73158727
>Was it hard for your people to let go of your colonies?
they were stolen

>>73158727
no

>Was it hard for your people to let go of your colonies?
We didn't really gave a fuck

>Did your economies flourish or stagnate after secession?
Flourished, but secession had nothing to do with it

>Did you have great time as a colonial power?
No

Why are there so many Filipinos on this imageboard? I do not like them here.

>>73158727
France still has colonies, i don't they contribute much to French economy.

When exactly was Russia colonized by Europe?

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>>73158727
russian empire was shithole with starving population of slaves.

the Soviet Union on the other hand was a great powerful country.

we russians do miss the USSR

>>73159193
>USSR was shithole with starving population of slaves.

>>73159185
Kievan rus

>>73159134

>Was it hard for your people to let go of your colonies? Depends, for some it was easy, some we had to fight, Algeria should've stayed french tho.

>Did your economies flourish or stagnate after secession?
Flourish, but it had nothing to do with secession

>Did you have great time as a colonial power?
mixed. nationalists never wanted colonies in the first place (one once said: "I have lost two daughters (alsace-lorraine)for which the republic gave me twenty servants.") and colonies were in majority non-profitable but prestige ensued and all that followed.

>>73159262

I was joking, I just wanted your (You). I miss you.

>>73159225
it wasn't though.
we recovered quickly after all the mess the RE has left.
and it was a hard time only in 1990 when it almost collapsed. it happened because of all those filthy traitors. if not them we would be a rich and prosperous country right now.
the collapse of the USSR was a disaster.

>>73158727
Yea
Went to shit but also because afterwards we lived in a perpetual civil war
No

>>73158727
No, and we are still doing the police in Africa.

>>73159150
Recently, niggers from F.Guiana wanted us to give them 2.5 billion euros. Surprisingly, our le*tist government said "fuck off".

>>73159185
the map shows that Russia was a colonizing European power you dullard

>>73159393
the USSR was built on sticks and borrowed time, the world is far better off without a paranoid group of narcissists threatening to nuke any country who sees past their façade of power held together by lies and Izalenta.
At least with the US in power they just choose a middle eastern country to raze to the ground every 10 years or so and not us.

>>73159896
Are you welcome among french speaking african nations then?

>>73159134
Be nice to your children.

>>73158727
They're all traitors who went from being rich parts of the empire to turning into shitholes. They can rot for all what I care.

>>73158727
>map
>Russia
We were colonized only during Nicolay II times, it's not the real colonialism.
>>73160009
We aren't European, idiot. Neither we colonized anyone. We conquered a lot of land but we never oppressed anyone, we gave everyone the same rights and lived together. In USSR Russia actually donated money to develop other republics. We aren't western barbarians.

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>>73160981
Viva Mexico

>>73159225
It was great.
Also representing Russia as a colonial empire is an anti-Russian propaganda. Russia is a union of all the peoples of Russia and as USSR we fought against colonialism worldwide. And we were half colony of the West in late 19th-early20th century.

>>73158727
Why Canada is in all red while Quebec exists ?

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>>73160981
They were tricked by the criollos.

>yes, moctezuma sanches, peninsulars are evil, let't fight for our freedom, we'll share all that wealth that's being stolen from us by them

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>>73161074
for your education

note that the word "Colony" doesn't have a negative connotation. it just denotes "a country or area under the full or partial political control of another country, typically a distant one, and occupied by settlers from that country"

>>73161207
Because I didn't choose a map to emphasize that

>>73158727
>Was it hard for your people to let go of your colonies?
don't really know, I wasn't alive during it and there is little to no reference to it in peoples daily life off of /int/. idk if the average citizen felt it much anyway it was gradual
>Did your economies flourish or stagnate after secession?
probably stagnated a bit back then
>Did you have great time as a colonial power?
i assume so

>>73161285
Peoples of Russia have been "the other country" at least 200-300 years ago, and it's 500+ for the majority. We never had any distant lands under our rule. We mixed altogether. It's like saying that Scotland is a colony of England or Sicilia is a colony of Italy. Conquering is a different thing with colonialism.

>>73161285
If it's Little Russia wouldn't it make sense for Russia to be a Ukrainian colony then?
Same as Little Britain being northern France.

>>73158727
>Was it hard for your people to let go of your colonies?

Only Cuba and Puerto Rico I think. They had been Spanish from almost 400 years and there had been a massive immigration of Spaniards towards there in the 19th century.

About the other colonies:
New Spain & South American colonies got independent in ~1820. There hadn't really been a strong relationship between the average Spaniard and them (it took months to travel there), so I don't think it affected us so much. Philippines, Western Sahara, Equatorial Guinea got independent later but they had had even less Spanish influence.


>Did your economies flourish or stagnate after secession?
Stagnate because it happened during the Napoleonic wars and the Spanish-American war.

>Did you have great time as a colonial power?
Nope. All that came from the colonies was the crown's property. The king would use that money to fight stupid wars in Europe because he didn't want to let go of their grandparent's lands.

>>73158727
This map is filled with errors and doesn't make much sense.
>Libya is British on the map and a large chunk of it taken by France when in reality it was a Italian colony and a part of it was British but given to Italy
>Eritrea and Somalia are British when they were Italian, only Somaliland was British
>Northern New Guinea was German or the whole country was British after ww1
>Represents the Ottomans partially but shows the Mid East mostly colonised by Europe
>Afghanistan was never colonised

There are plenty more errors, this map is atrocious
There's plenty more but this map is atrocious

>>73161736
no, because Ukraine was invented long after the ethnogenesis of Russians

>>73159066
Decolonize Papua then

>>73159303
>nationalists never wanted colonies in the first place
This. Keeping a bunch of savages under your control only ends up backfiring, colonies are the number 1 source of shitty immigrants.

>>73162214
We were a colony of the West but I wouldn't say our immigrants are shitty.

They were simply taken away and while there was a bit of butthurt 100 years ago I dont think anyone today thinks much of it. They were a financial burden to the empire anyway as retardowilly wanted them for prestige points and luxury goods while we got some extraguilt from it due to the herero genocide.
Besides that we would darken up at rapid pace and probably outdo france in that regard if there would still be african countries were they speak german.

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>>73161836
Dark red are countries still ruled by the monarch of UK. I'm pretty sure this is atleast right.

>Was it hard for your people to let go of your colonies?
Yes, a close family member of mine died because of that.
>Did your economies flourish or stagnate after secession?
Stagnate
>Did you have great time as a colonial power
It has never been any better than that.

>>73160310

Tbh that's more a description of the U.S. The Americans threatened to use nukes like three or four times during he Cold War. I think the Russians did it once.

>>73161158

Also this. The late Russian Empire was basically run by British and French banks.

>>73161074

>We aren't European, idiot. Neither we colonized anyone. We conquered a lot of land but we never oppressed anyone

You have to admit you treated Eastern Europe pretty poorly.

>>73162952
>21st century
>Monarchs having any power
Sure, they are "ruled"

>>73164864
The current monarch can still do lots of things if she really wanted to

>>73158727
>Portugal
it was fucking brutal during the Estado Novo dictatorship, since up to a fifth of the Portuguese population lived in the colonies. Also my grandfather died trying to ship his Datsun from Angola after hearing about the revolution. After that it went pretty smooth and the retarded socialist government pretty much handed everything over without caring about the current state of the colonies. That's how four out of six ex colonies became civil war battlegrounds while a fifth one got invaded by fucking Indonesia.
I don't even want to talk about Brazil or Goa, shit's depressing.

>Belgium
Economically pretty hard, Belgium tried to bleed the Congo out by pushing the Southern region full of ressources (Katanga) into independence to install a puppet regime.
Belgium did so much retarded shit it's basically the reason for the Rwandan Genocide and the Great African War.

>>73159985
>Cazeneuve
>"""""""left"""""""

>>73159150
Indeed

They're leeching 600-900 BILLIONS pear Year

>>73158727
>Was it hard for your people to let go of your colonies?
Yes. We're still butthurt with the african colonies, because all of them immediately turned to shit after gaining independence and are incapable of exploiting their resources properly since they're dumb niggers.
Plus, a lot of our population lived in the african colonies and suddenly had to come back, else the niggers would culturally enrich them.

>Did your economies flourish or stagnate after secession
If we didn't join the EU in the 80s we would be having a harder time, most likely. We became irrelevant after the 1974 ""revolution"".

>Did you have great time as a colonial power?
The best we had in our nation's history.

>>73159134
they are the nicest immigrants you can get, polite and hard working and their kids are very well educated and well behaved, send them here and take some romanians in exchange.

>>73158727
>Lybians wanted muh freedom
> now they're all coming here

Same for eritreans

>>73171145
Same for our african colonies.

At least the brazilians remained in their land.
Why didn't these niggers do the same if they wanted ""independence"" so badly?

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>>73170743