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by stfods
1610 days ago
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Russian history is essentially a history of occupying and integrating bordering countries into the empire. That was the way to expand from several regions around Moscow to the empire's enormous pre-revolution territory in the beginning of XX century. You may google "Expansion of russian empire" maps to get an impression of this expansions. Historically, most of multi-national empires in Europe (Austria-Hungary; Germans; Osmans) has fallen in the beginning of 20th century, but this one has mostly survived. Poland and Finland were lucky enough to separate, some other countries (Baltics, Ukraine) were less successful and got reintegrated into the new, totalitarian XX century edition of the empire. It's natural that any neighbouring country not willing to become a playground for now less totalitarian but still oppressive and oligarch-run empire of Russian Federation would unite with anyone who could help, especially NATO. For example NATO and US could be the only reason for Estonia still being independent and successful just 100 km away from st. Peteresburg |
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