00:00All Americans do not know that the Alaska could be part of Liechtenstein.
00:04Currently, the Alaska is the biggest state of the United States.
00:07It was part of the Russian Empire, but during the Crimean War,
00:10it became obvious that Russia could not allow us to preserve the Alaska,
00:14so they decided to sell it to save their economy.
00:17The Alaska was on the point of being bought by Liechtenstein,
00:20one of the poorest countries in the world,
00:22which is more small than Brooklyn and New York combined,
00:25and 11,000 times more small than Alaska.
00:27But at the last moment, the Liechtenstein changed and in 1867,
00:32the Russian Empire accepted to sell Alaska to the United States.
00:35The purchase was 7,2 millions of dollars,
00:38which is now equivalent to 125 millions of dollars.
00:41It is interesting to note that a few years after the purchase,
00:44the oil was discovered in Alaska,
00:46and during the march towards the oil,
00:48more than 900 tons of oil were extracted,
00:51the equivalent of 36 milliards of dollars today,
00:54soit 288 fois plus que ce qui a été dépensé pour acheter l'Alaska.
00:58Pas une mauvaise affaire, n'est-ce pas ?
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