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Alaska
By: 90sRetroFan Date: July 15, 2020, 3:01 pm
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OLD CONTENT
Many pro-Russian propagandists, including Dugin himself, like to
claim that the Russian Empire was never a colonial empire. They
are lying, of course:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_America
[quote]Russian America (Russian:
Русская
Америка, Russkaya
Amerika) was the name of the Russian colonial possessions in
North America from 1733 to 1867. Its capital was
Novo-Arkhangelsk (New Arkhangelsk), which is now Sitka, Alaska,
United States. Settlements spanned parts of what are now the
U.S. states of California, Alaska and three forts in Hawaii.
Formal incorporation of the possessions by Russia did not take
place until the Ukase of 1799 which established a monopoly for
the Russian–American Company and also granted the Russian
Orthodox Church certain rights in the new possessions. Many of
its possessions were abandoned in the 19th century. In 1867,
Russia sold its last remaining possessions to the United States
of America for $7.2 million ($132 million in today's terms).
...
Beginning in 1743, small associations of fur-traders began to
sail from the shores of the Russian Pacific coast to the
Aleutian islands.[4] As the runs from Asiatic Russia to America
became longer expeditions (lasting two to four years or more),
the crews established hunting- and trading-posts. By the late
1790s some of these had become permanent settlements.
Approximately half of the fur traders came from the various
European parts of the Russian Empire, while the others had
Siberian or mixed origins.[citation needed]
Rather than hunting the marine life themselves, the Russian
promyshlenniki forced the Aleuts to do the work for them, often
by taking hostage family-members in exchange for hunted
seal-furs.[5] This pattern of colonial exploitation resembled
some of the Russian promyshlenniki practices in their expansion
into Siberia and the Russian Far East.[6] As word spread of the
potential riches in furs, competition among Russian companies
increased and the Aleuts were enslaved.[5][7] Catherine the
Great, who became Empress of Russia in 1763, proclaimed goodwill
toward the Aleuts and urged her subjects to treat them fairly.
On some islands and parts of the Alaska Peninsula, groups of
traders had been capable of relatively peaceful coexistence with
the local inhabitants. Other groups could not manage the
tensions and committed acts of violence. Hostages were taken,
families were split up, and individuals were forced to leave
their villages and settle elsewhere. The growing competition
between the trading companies, merging into fewer, larger and
more powerful corporations, created conflicts that aggravated
the relations with the indigenous populations. Over the years,
the situation became catastrophic.[citation needed]
As the animal populations declined, the Aleuts, already too
dependent on the new barter-economy fostered by the Russian
fur-trade, were increasingly coerced into taking greater and
greater risks in the highly dangerous waters of the North
Pacific to hunt for more otter. As the Shelekhov-Golikov Company
of 1783-1799 developed a monopoly, its use of skirmishes and
violent incidents turned into systematic violence as a tool of
colonial exploitation of the indigenous people. When the Aleuts
revolted and won some victories, the Russians retaliated,
killing many and destroying their boats and hunting gear,
leaving them no means of survival. The most devastating effects
came from disease: during the first two generations
(1741/1759-1781/1799 AD) of Russian contact, 80 percent of the
Aleut population died from Eurasian infectious diseases; these
were by then endemic among the Europeans, but the Aleut had no
immunity against the new diseases.[8]
Though the Alaskan colony was never very profitable because of
the costs of transportation, most Russian traders were
determined to keep the land for themselves. In 1784 Grigory
Ivanovich Shelekhov, who later set up the Russian-Alaska
Company[9][better source needed] that developed into the Alaskan
colonial administration, arrived in Three Saints Bay on Kodiak
Island with two ships, the Three Saints (Russian:
Три
Святителя)
and the St. Simon.[10] The Koniag Alaska Natives harassed the
Russian party and Shelekhov responded by killing hundreds and
taking hostages to enforce the obedience of the rest. Having
established his authority on Kodiak Island, Shelekhov founded
the second permanent Russian settlement in Alaska (after
Unalaska, permanently settled since 1774) on the island's Three
Saints Bay.
In 1790 Shelekhov, back in Russia, hired Alexander Andreyevich
Baranov to manage his Alaskan fur-enterprise. Baranov moved the
colony to the northeast end of Kodiak Island, where timber was
available. The site later developed as what is now the city of
Kodiak. Russian colonists took Koniag wives and started families
whose surnames continue today, such as Panamaroff, Petrikoff,
and Kvasnikoff. In 1795 Baranov, concerned by the sight of
non-Russian Europeans trading with the natives in southeast
Alaska, established Mikhailovsk six miles (10 km) north of
present-day Sitka. He bought the land from the Tlingit, but in
1802, while Baranov was away, Tlingit from a neighboring
settlement attacked and destroyed Mikhailovsk. Baranov returned
with a Russian warship and razed the Tlingit village. He built
the settlement of New Archangel (Russian:
Ново-Архан
гельск,
romanized: Novo-Arkhangelsk) on the ruins of Mikhailovsk. It
became the capital of Russian America – and later the city of
Sitka.
As Baranov secured the Russians' settlements in Alaska, the
Shelekhov family continued to work among the top leaders to win
a monopoly on Alaska's fur trade. In 1799 Shelekhov's
son-in-law, Nikolay Petrovich Rezanov, had acquired a monopoly
on the American fur trade from Tsar Paul I. Rezanov formed the
Russian-American Company. As part of the deal, the Tsar expected
the company to establish new settlements in Alaska and to carry
out an expanded colonisation programme.[/quote]
NEVER FORGIVE. NEVER FORGET.
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Now you Know why many pro Russian propagandists on the “left”
purporting to be “anti colonialist” are actually Jewish.
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Re: Alaska
By: 90sRetroFan Date: March 16, 2022, 8:41 pm
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLSVcDRQpyU
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Re: Alaska
By: guest55 Date: March 16, 2022, 10:13 pm
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Why Anchorage, Alaska Is The United States' Most Important City
HTML https://unofficialnetworks.com/2021/12/31/anchorage-alaska-most-important0city/
Why Anchorage is America's Most OP City
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMNfagIz0hs
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Re: Russia, the Last Colonial Empire
By: guest78 Date: July 9, 2022, 12:20 pm
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Putin's Russia Claims 'Alaska Is Ours' As West Rushes Arms To
Ukraine l Mere Threat Or New Crisis?
[quote]Amid the ongoing tense standoff between US and Russia
over Ukraine, Alaska has emerged as the latest flashpoint.
Billboards reading ‘Alaska is Ours’ have been spotted in
Russia's Krasnoyarsk city and the sign has gone viral on social
media. The sign was spotted a day after Putin’s ally, Vyacheslav
Volodin, threatened to ‘take back’ Alaska in response to US
sanctions. In March, Russian State Duma member Oleg Matveychev
also called on the Kremlin to reclaim Alaska. After Ukraine, US
and Russia to clash over Alaska?
#RussiaUSAlaska. #alaska #RussiaAlaska[/quote]
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25A6yO06ON0
[quote]The first Russian colony in Alaska was founded in 1784 by
Grigory Shelikhov. Subsequently, Russian explorers and settlers
continued to establish trading posts in mainland Alaska, on the
Aleutian Islands, Hawaii, and Northern California.[/quote]
HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_colonization_of_North_America
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Re: Alaska
By: 90sRetroFan Date: October 14, 2022, 6:59 pm
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HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/alaska-lawmakers-erupt-old-white-213131211.html
[quote]An assembly meeting in Alaska turned into a racial
debacle when a community member used the public comments portion
to espouse his racist views that Indigenous Americans should go
“home,”
...
a white man in a collared shirt stood up to casually argue for
Alaskan Natives to be kicked out of Anchorage.
The man, who identified himself as David Lazer, started by
complaining about the area’s homeless problem.
“Like, 80 percent are the Natives. I have to call them
‘Indians,’” he said, grumbling that Indigenous Americans are
considered Native but his white children born in Alaska are not.
“My children were born here, and they’re not Native. This is not
a white-Black problem. This is an Indian problem.”
“I say send them home to their native village. A Native
Corporation is the problem, not a white problem,” Lazer
continued, using the term for partnerships of organizations
formed in Alaska to protect Native culture in the area. “Why
should we be paying for a Native problem? Send them home. They
would be happy there, and we would be happy. They could drink,
smoke, do dope, and whatever they do in the villages with their
own people and they would be happy.”
After essentially advising a “separate but equal” philosophy for
Alaskan Natives in Anchorage, Lazer said that the city should
expel them.
“After the Native convention next week, let them take their
homeless home with them,” Lazer said while also providing a
financial plan on the so-called efficiency of booting Native
Americans from the area.
“Putting them in a hotel, putting them in places, feeding them,
next spring, next summer you’re going to have the same problem,”
he said. “No one talks about eliminating the problem. I say send
them home. Send the bill to the Native Corporation.”
He also suggested shipping them to sanctuary cities, similar to
what the Texas government has done with asylum seekers.
...
According to business registration files, Lazer owns a tour
company just outside of Anchorage in Palmer, Alaska. His company
was bombarded with negative reviews after footage of the
assembly meeting was shared online.
“The owner of this business stepped to the microphone at the
Anchorage Assembly and told the world that Alaska Natives should
‘go home,’” a Yelp reviewer wrote under Lazer Tours’ profile.
“The horrible irony of this is that he makes his living showing
tourists the Alaska Natives' home, while simultaneously having
such vile disrespect for it and them.”[/quote]
Woke comments:
[quote]What he fails to realize is that he is the one that
should go home to Europe.[/quote]
[quote]Old white bigots never understand anything but their own
white privilege.[/quote]
He'd probably be fine with Russians in Alaska, though.....
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