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Easy one.. Russia.
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Russia.
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Excerpts from wikipedia: Known at the time as Seward's folly, Alaska was purchased from the Russians in 1867. Russia was in a difficult financial position and feared losing the Alaskan territory without compensation in some future conflict. Therefore the Tsar Alexander II decided to sell the territory to the US. The negotiations concluded after an all-night session with the signing of the treaty at 9 o'clock in the morning of March 30, with the purchase price set at $7,200,000 (about 1.9¢ per acre). American public opinion was generally positive, but some newspaper writers and editors had negative feelings about the purchase of land. The purchase was at the time derided as Seward's folly, Seward's icebox, and Andrew Johnson's polar bear garden, because it was believed foolhardy to spend so much money on the remote region
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Russia
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Russia.
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Russia. They got it so cheap it was like they stole it.
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Russia
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The czech republic(now Russia).Eduard de Stoeckl represented Russia and William Seward negotiated for the US.Finally US won and got Alaska for a price
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yes it was russia back when russia didn't really care about it, a good investment by the US
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We bought Alaska? We own it? Then that means the oil is ours and not the Sierra Club's? I say drill, baby, drill!!
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Russia.
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Alaska was purchased from Russia for like $1 an acre, back in the 1930's.
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