It's amazing that the Russian empire is given a complete pass on its colonization. It was just as brutal as the colonization of Africa and the Americas, for exa

It's amazing that the Russian empire is given a complete pass on its colonization. It was just as brutal as the colonization of Africa and the Americas, for example, yet unlike the other European countries, Russia never gave up its colonies that stretch from Moscow all the way to Japan (including some of Japan). The ignorance in the West is so great that they think that Siberia is naturally part of the "white people" domain, kind of like Finland is.