Time Machine

[Gargantua]

I would enlist to kill Russians… lol

[CWO Marc]

@Canuck12:

How about an unseparated Russian Empire Stretching from Germany, encompassing Poland, the Baltic states, central Asia, all the way to the Bering Straight!

Not long after the end of the war in Europe, an American official (I think it was the U.S. ambassador to the Soviet Union) spoke to Stalin and said something along the lines of, “It must be very gratifying for you to have captured Berlin, after all the suffering that your people went through during the war.”  Stalin looked back at him and said, “Tsar Alexander got all the way to Paris.”

[ABWorsham4]

One of the pictures that sticks in my memory from my Western Civilization class was of a huge bearded Tzarist soldier in Paris after France defeat in 1815.

[empireman]

Correct if im wrong, did Russia own Alaska in the 19 century??? Imagine if they still did….

[Gargantua]

@empireman:

Correct if im wrong, did Russia own Alaska in the 19 century??? Imagine if they still did….

I would enlist to kill SO many Russians lol…

[ABWorsham4]

@empireman:

Correct if im wrong, did Russia own Alaska in the 19 century??? Imagine if they still did….

Wonder how the Cold War would have been?

[CWO Marc]

@empireman:

Correct if im wrong, did Russia own Alaska in the 19 century

Yes.  As I recall, Russia then sold Alaska to the U.S. – an interesting case of Russian capitalism (though admittedly in the pre-Soviet period).

[MrMalachiCrunch]

Nothing like a heavily indebted nation having to sell territory to pay the bills.  Say….how much for Florida?

[Gargantua]

$13

[MrMalachiCrunch]

Less now that they are forcing all the out of country tourists to get an international license.  So much for US independence!

http://www.torontosun.com/2013/02/14/canadians-need-international-driving-permit-in-florida

Canada really needs to get an 11th province in the tropics where our snow birds can keep their money patriated!

http://www.journalinteret.com/politique/turks-and-caicos-the-eleventh-province/

[Karl7]

probably December 1942, Stalingrad… what!?!?!?  :-o

that’s the last place I’d want to be… or is it?  :wink:

[aequitas-et-veritas]

You don`t mind the cold KARL7 do ya??

[ABWorsham4]

@Karl7:

probably December 1942, Stalingrad… what!?!?!?   :-o

that’s the last place I’d want to be… or is it?  :wink:

As a Russian or German?