“So you think [A]laska should be returned to Russia?”
LOL no thanks
Just interesting to see the Russian sovereign being referred to as a Western power/European power. Which it presumably currently regards itself as being, once again.
The Czars literally thought of themselves in relation to Russia as the owners of a large plantation, with literally everyone else in it—including the nobility—as their personal property/slaves with no right to political power whatsoever. The nobility often referred to themselves as the Czar’s slaves.
This way of thinking was the direct result of Russia having been conquered by the Mongols, and run by them as a purely arbitrary Asiatic despotism, for several hundred years. Moscow’s czars became the rulers because they were successful in toadying up to their Mongol overlords, and took over their authority as the Mongol empire collapsed.