TripleBossyDeluxe
Banned
With a POD of 1492, have Russia colonize all or most of what is modern-day Canada. Bonus points for having Soviet Canuckistan if butterflies allow.
Didn't stop them from taking Siberia, now, did it?Out, vile POD! Vade retro, Satana!
I doubt Russia goes far past the Great Plains. What's there for them? If anything they'd continue down the Pacific coast; the land's better. There really isn't much valuable on the steppes or the tundra.
Siberia's easy for Russia. There's no ocean in the way and they can use all that extra land for the fur trade.Didn't stop them from taking Siberia, now, did it?
Siberia's easy for Russia. There's no ocean in the way and they can use all that extra land for the fur trade.
If they want to colonize North America, they need to build thousands of kilometres of new infrastructure; marching over the Bering on a horse every time isn't a long-term solution to keeping a colony supplied. Either you've got to freight supplies through Siberia to a Pacific port and ship them across the ocean, then inland into the North American tundra, or you're walking all the way to Moosonee.
Siberia's at least on the same land mass. North America means shipping supplies to colonies three-quarters of the way around the world. The expense alone would make it a stupid decision.
And don't forget. No one else is colonizing Siberia, and those who can couldn't care less about it. In North America, they'll run headlong into competition with the British and then the United States.
My TL got a circumpolar empire as well, but it's Scandinavia, not Russia.the first and only circumpolar empire
Russia had to beat off English, Dutch, in Siberia
Furs were valuable back then, and the monopolization of the fur trade into Europe took a major effort by the Russians (and one which paid off quite handsomely).
Really? Interesting. Would love to see more about it.