Posted on 07/14/2016 12:42:46 PM PDT by Trumpinator
KAMEN-RYBOLOV, Russia — Standing ankle deep in mud in a swampy grassland more than 4,000 miles from his home, Yuri A. Bugaev surveyed a mosquito-infested wasteland that the Russian government is offering to would-be pioneers under its own modern-day version of the 1862 Homestead Act in the United States.
“This is not really what I had in mind,” said Mr. Bugaev, who had traveled across seven time zones from St. Petersburg, Russia, to scout the possibilities for settlers in the country’s sparsely populated Far East, a territory roughly two-thirds the size of the United States.
The nine Far Eastern regions targeted for settlement in the government’s land giveaway, which began on June 1, encompass more than a third of Russia but are home to only 6.1 million people. This is just 4 percent of the country’s population and compares with the 110 million Chinese living across the border in the three provinces that make up Manchuria.
Mr. Bugaev is a dedicated, if largely sedentary, Cossack, a centuries-old fraternity of Slavic warriors, freebooters and freedom-loving rebels. A romantic throwback to earlier generations of Cossacks who settled and secured the borders of the Russian empire, he sees getting his Cossack brethren and other Russians to move out east as the only way to keep mostly empty Russian lands safe from China.
For years, he said, he had dreamed of Russia embracing, or rather re-embracing, the pioneer spirit, and he was delighted by the Kremlin’s backing of a program meant to reassert the country’s manifest destiny as a continent-straddling power.
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Plus, your typical winter is from roughly September 20 to May 15.
Give me 6 or 7 who look like her and I’ll get to work right away repopulating the region.
How many legions do you have?
Anywhere around Lake Baikal, maybe Chita
Russia is having a hard time populating European Russia, let alone Siberia. They should take in a few million Syrian refugees and send them to the tundra.
As I understand it, the current inhabitants consist of miners, smugglers, and bandits, with a few whores and saloon-keepers.
Hey!
Leave my family out of this.
Only three...
But they are well trained.
;-)
Actually, all I’d have is the ability to say “But you promised!!!!” in a really whiny voice.
Not to worry, the Chicoms will take care of populating Siberia.
I was tempted to say that after a few years of Hellary, Russia’s far east might not look so bad but with all the rules and regulations and too little land it’s wouldn’t be an option.
Reminiscent of the Old West.
Be the first line of defense against the invading Chinese horde. What a deal!
They ALL “look like the one in post #2” - at first. Then
twenty years down the road, in a harsh climate, eating a
diet of potato latkes and noodles - then the fat and
wrinkles take over. Of course, the climate and the food
will also load the blubber on YOUR frame as well - and
you’ll be two peas in a pod; both wearing babushkas!
“miners, smugglers, and bandits, with a few whores and saloon-keepers”
Haha- I immediately thought of a mean verse we used to taunt kids from Cali when I was a kid-
“The miners came in ‘49
And the whores in ‘51
They got right into bed
And begat the native son”...
Good for them.
Yep, use it or lose it.
Two and a half acres of swampy wasteland, and the local government can take it back in five years if your “development” of the land doesn’t meet up to their unspecified expectations. Not much of a deal.
2 1/2 acres of swampy terrain doesn’t offer many options to grow food or keep livestock-it is too cold for a rice paddy and even the toughest goats need dry ground...
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