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What do you think were the two biggest problems faced by Russians in Alaska that led them to sell it?

What do you think were the two biggest problems faced by Russians in Alaska that led them to sell it?
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What do you think were the two biggest problems faced by Russians in Alaska that led them to sell it?

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Russia offered to sell Alaska to the United States in 1859, believing the United States would off-set the designs of Russia’s greatest rival in the Pacific, Great Britain. (got it from the internet) not my words
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