Quote Originally Posted by Trainer Monkey View Post
Name one,I mean other then a massive Natural Gas field they couldnt get to,name a single natural resource they had?
They didnt even have enough usuable land that they weren hurt by Carters Grain embargo
No Oil,no Iron,no truly fertile land,no nothing
Not even a truly homogenous people after the Mongols tore north and then West
The Chinese do okay because they have iron and coal,and cheap labor
Ever heard of the Ural mountains? There is plenty of resources in the Urals: coal, iron, nickel, silver, gold, platinium, chromite, zircon, topaz, need I go on? Plenty of Russia is "fertile land", how else would they have been able to support a feudal-style peasant ecomonic and social system until 1917 if there was no fertile land?
You're making yourself look like a fool.