I'm all in.Russia wants homesteaders to hold back the Chinese.
I’m old, and I don’t know how to farm, and I don’t like cold weather — but if I stay where I am, I’m only going to get into trouble ...
Kulaks are back in Russia!
I’ve been fascinated by Eastern Siberia and especially Vladivostok since I lived in San Francisco decades ago. Elegant but broke old Russian Aristocrats lived there, having escaped the revolution by the Siberian Express train across Siberia to Vladivostok and then by ship to San Francisco. When some American airline, perhaps Alaska Air, opened flights to Vladivostok for a mere $100 I wanted to go but could not find a pet sitter at any price for my three pets
Lots of really devastating fires in Eastern Siberia this year, but I don’t believe as far East as Vladivostok. Also, I don’t hate Putin half as much as I do Xiden.
LOL! Putin thinks he is Lincoln. :-)
North of Tokyo, south of Alaska. On the coast.
https://www.tripadvisor.com/Tourism-g12482486-Kotikovo_Smolensk_Oblast_Central_Russia-Vacations.html
Looks pretty upscale - for very rural Russia (CIS)
We’ve got about a million that just came here that we could send.
Even Siberia goes through the motions.
1 Hectare = 2.47 Acres
Hmmmmm.
Wonder what the prospects area for an expat...
And a Siberian Khatru in each pot.
Thanks but....I’ll pass.
Only 1 hectare? Make it 500 with a river and we’ll talk.
I’d do it if I didn’t have family.....
I'm all in.I assumed this was 1921.
They drove my ancestors out once already after promises of free churches and land.
Ironic isn’t it? Russia becomes ‘freer’ while America dives headlong into communism/marxism.
Have to wonder why a bunch of Muscovites and folks from Peter don’t become more aggressive about land in Eastern Siberia, even though a long ride.
It makes sense that Moscow would want more people North of China, despite the strong 2010 joint Russia-China defense pact.
Also have to consider real land ownership, and control of land. That is tricky.
The church idea has to mean some kind of permissive extension of national Russian Orthodox Church endeavors, as most denominations and evangelicals would not be welcome.
I have spent a good portion of my life in Russia, and have known dozens of evangelical missionaries thrown out, beginning in the 1990’s (all the way to the present), as well as formerly underground Russian pastors who have been severely persecuted (even today), and churches shut down.
Have personally crossed paths with Russian Orthodox priests who were very gnostic and agnostic at best, and quite protective of national socialist policies, who were very close to military and police leadership.
I briefly worked with priests (plural) in Moscow who were also FSB.
Some of my most undesired “run-ins” came from leadership at Sergei Posad and from Moscow, who were largely agnostic, (with one collar wearing priest who was atheist), who were very leftist politically (similar to Pope Francis, but more nationalistic), who successfully worked to get a good number of evangelical missionaries thrown out of Russia.
One priest I knew from the East side of Moscow (who taught philosophy at Moscow State University, and several satellite schools), literally taught “there is no truth in the universe, including that of a God, with one exception - there is no truth.” He was in very close with a number of FSB just East of the Kremlin.
He too would have to fall into the category of atheistic.
Siberia has many very beautiful rural places, but if Russia mixes it up (militarily) in a big way in the West (Eastern Med region), China is big enough (for now) in population and military, to walk right into Siberia.
China is already the biggest trader (by far) of materials and goods with Eastern Siberia.
If Russia possessed, and adhered to a constitution as strong on limited government as the once practiced US Constitution, now that would be something!