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Not really comparable:

1) Alaska was (and still is) a huge, and very sparsely populated land

2) For the native population it was not a big difference whether Russians or Americans ruled them, none of them treated them well - it was a colony and all they cared of was getting the natural resources.

3) Russians were not kicked out of their homes, as there was very few of them there in the first place (mostly working for the government). And then there was also proportionally very little American settlers coming in compared to the vastness of the land available.

If you want a better comparison with US history, look at the Trail of Tears, it's much closer to what happened in Israel...



Or the Sullivan Campaign, or any of the many directly comparable examples.




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