Let just settle that Russia is a Eurasian nation. Not quite fully European, but neither Asian. For goodnessake, the Slavs in the Balkans are more European than the Russians.
Well considering all of Europe after the Dark Ages re-emerged during the Renaissance while Russia got left behind. And when Russia was trying to modernize, it was mostly on modernizing the military, the idea that a modern army would be better than modernizing the rest of the nation. Also note...
Wow!
Russia, sir was the backwards nation that just happens to be geographically part of Europe.
Culturally and technologically, Russia is no European nation for the better majority of Russia's existence.
Can't quite remember exactly happened but here it goes:
Well Bismark of Germany demanded theology, world map, and 500 gold from me. Naturally I said no.
He said,"Ah, I always knew you had a backbone. It was a joke anyways.
So logic says we must not have an american civilization because most of the cities in the eastern seaboard were built by british and spanish colonists.
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