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I was reading some of the threads here regarding Alaska, Russia and the US and various combinations of it being sold/ceded/taken over/etc. I asked a good Russian friend about the sale of Alaska and the Russian view point on it. She told me that in reality, Alaska had been leased rather than sold to the US, similar to Hong Kong. By the time the lease was up, the US was in a position that returning Alaska was out of the question.

Anybody here know anything about that?

If that info is bogus, what would be implications have been of a 99 year lease being up at the height of the Cold War (Mid 1960's)?
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