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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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