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Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin: Only then I fully understood the uncontrollable attraction which southern lands have exercised on the Russians, the…

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Only then I fully understood the uncontrollable attraction which southern lands have exercised on the Russians, the colossal efforts which they have made to reach the Black Sea, and the steady pressure of the Siberian colonists southward, further into Manchuria.
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Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin

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He expresses a newfound understanding of the Russian desire for southern lands and the historical migration patterns towards them.

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