A relatively condensed history of why Russia sold us Alaska
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Renauda, is this a pretty accurate picture? (Spelling errors notwithstanding)
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Pretty accurate from my understanding of the story. Although it fails to mention that many Russians were convinced (and probably remain so today) that the deal was a lease agreement that the US reneged upon after the 1917 revolution. As well, the by the 1860s the British were not at all interested in acquiring Alaska as their focus was by then South Asia and not the Western Hemisphere.
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