>>17774108You're exaggerating on purpose, but I'm not even surprised, for some reason you're so aggressive, but what can I do. When Russia annexed Siberia, it was inhabited by many peoples who were not infringed in any way, except perhaps the fur tax, which I have already mentioned. Christianity was not imposed on them (because it would not be beneficial to our tsars, because Christians would be exempt from the said fur tax). I can give a vivid, one might say personal, example — my city Irkutsk. Irkutsk was founded by the Siberian Cossack Jacob Pokhabov on the Angara River at the request of a local Buryat prince who asked for protection. Is this oppression? I don't think so, it's called cooperation. If we are as terrible as the Western media describes us, why hundreds of years later, ancient tribes live in the same place where they lived then and now? For example, the Ust-Horde Buryats in my Irkutsk region, as they lived in one place, live there, profess shamanism just like hundreds of years ago when the Russians came to these parts and do not complain.
