The Russian Empire vs. the Soviet Union - a geographic/territorial comparison

[VGPolyglot]

Ka-pi96 said:

VGPolyglot said:

$7,200,000 (or I think around $200,000,000 in today's money)

I've no idea how you can read that!

But isn't Alaska like super oil rich now? Seems like they screwed up by selling it so cheap! Plus let's not forget that Polar Bears live in Alaska too, so even more reason they should have kept it!

And I actually had the numbers wrong, it's more like 113! The main reason they sold it for so cheap was because they were worried about the British Empire taking the land for no compensation at all I believe, so they sold it to the US so they could at least get something out of it.