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00:00Do you know Alaska was once a part of Russia? Russian Empire sold Alaska for 7.2 million
00:05dollars. At that time Canada was a British colony and Russia feared that it will lose
00:09Alaska to Great Britain in case of war. Secondly, at the time Alaska's population was around 30,000
00:15and it was considered low economic region. But today Alaska is contributing almost 50
00:20billion dollars to US economy. What do you think? Was this decision good?