Andrew Anglin
Daily Stormer
April 1, 2014

In Russia, following the successful annexation of Crimea, people are joking about the return of Alaska being the obvious next step.

From the Moscow Times:

Amid growing anti-Americanism in Russia following the imposition of U.S. sanctions, Russian officials and pro-Kremlin journalists and bloggers have fueled talk — generally facetious — of an ambition to retake Alaska.

In an appearance on a BBC talk show last month, Vladimir Chizhov, Russia’s permanent representative to the European Union, made perhaps the most direct hint at this goal of any official, suggesting that U.S. Senator John McCain should “watch over Alaska.”

Comic takes on Alaska’s Russian past have also emerged on Russian social media. Humor websites published a photoshopped picture of penguins from the pro-Kremlin United Russia party holding signs saying, “Crimea is ours,” “Alaska is next!” and “Only Putin!” The picture conveniently ignores the fact that there are not actually any penguins in Alaska.

Oh, and there is a petition.  On the idiot Obama website, where many such petitions exist, and are never acknowledged in a serious fashion.

A petition for the “secession of Alaska from the U.S. and joining Russia” appeared on the “We the People” section of the White House’s website on March 21 and had garnered more than 35,000 signatures as of Monday evening. The petition has collected signatures from numerous U.S. states, including California, Florida, Michigan, New York and Texas. To receive White House attention, the appeal must collect 100,000 signatures by April 20.

The petition, which seems to have been written using an automated translation tool, was uploaded by an organization called Government Communication G2C, a pro-Kremlin “communications platform.”

“The objective of the petition is not to bring Alaska back to Russia,” said Alexander Zhukov, an assistant to the organization’s director, in a telephone interview. “We understand that this is not plausible. Our goal is to show the White House that its petition system is a flawed democratic tool that allows anybody to ask for anything.”

“We are trying to protect the citizens of the U.S. by drawing attention to a tool that is said to be democratic but could be used by terrorists or other people with evil objectives,” Zhukov said.

He also said that the petition’s poor grammar was intentional and was meant to show the White House that “any fool” could use its system.

At time of writing, the petition has 36,235 signatures.  And counting.

Here is the full text.

we petition the obama administration to:

Alaska back to Russia.

Groups Siberian russians crossed the Isthmus (now the Bering Strait) 16-10 thousand years ago.

Russian began to settle on the Arctic coast, Aleuts inhabited the Aleutian Archipelago.

First visited Alaska August 21, 1732, members of the team boat “St. Gabriel »under the surveyor Gvozdev and assistant navigator I. Fedorov during the expedition Shestakov and DI Pavlutski 1729-1735 years

Vote for secession of Alaska from the United States and joining Russia

Why would you not support this?

People have issues with Putin, of course, and some of these issues may be valid.  But if territories of the US were ceded to Russia, it would mean they would have no faggot rights movements, no blasphemy and no more mosques built.  Whatever your views on Russia, it is objectively superior to the United States in a measurable fashion.

Of course, this isn’t a real thing. No one actually thinks Russia is going to annex Alaska.  Because Russia is not an aggressive country.  Among other more obvious reasons.  But it gives us an opportunity to consider what the consequences of such a thing would be, and to weigh them.

The Moscow Times article also gave some interesting historical background of Russian Alaska.

Alaska is home to more than 30 Russian Orthodox churches, six of which are U.S. National Historical Landmarks. These remnants of the state’s Russian history may offer Russia, or at least Russia’s most popular faith, the best chance of reclaiming portions of Alaskan territory.

Researchers led by Aysen Nikolayev, the mayor of Yakutsk, a far northern city of 270,000, have found archival evidence that suggests Alaska’s Spruce Island still belongs to the Russian Orthodox Church.

Nikolayev has petitioned President Vladimir Putin, both chambers of the Russian parliament and the Foreign Ministry for the return of the largely uninhabited Spruce Island to the Russian Orthodox Church.

“I have been working on this since 2008,” Nikolayev said in a telephone interview. “We found in the archives that Spruce Island belongs to the Russian Orthodox Church and that its ownership of the land was immune to any sale and territorial transfer. The island was the home of famous Russian holy people such as Saint Herman of Alaska.”

Nikolayev insisted that Russia’s relinquishment of Alaska was a “mistake,” but said that it could not be recanted because both parties had officially agreed to the sale. But, he said, this should not prevent the Russian Orthodox Church from retrieving its lost territory.

“I have not proposed that Spruce Island be returned to the Russian Federation,” he said. “I have only proposed that it be returned to the Russian Orthodox Church, which is active in many countries. Very few people live on Spruce Island. And if the Russian Orthodox Church were to retrieve its land, I highly doubt that anyone would be evicted.”