>>17851820
>Is there ANY explanation for Russian failure to prosper despite being the biggest country on the planet, having the most resources, having more people than most of the rest of Europe put together?
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>Only explanation seems cultural to me
Geography

Russia has shit water transport and extremely easy to invade due to terrain

it had little trade or exchange of ideas and was constantly invaded as a result

Thomas Sowell does a pretty good piece on this


it's also worth pointing out you're wrong and Russia's population is much smaller than Europe and unlike the rest of Europe it is extremely heterogenous with many problematic minority groups

konichiwa dudes