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The difference between North and South
12019-04-04T23:46:01-04:00Kelly O'Neilldc20b45f1d74122ba0d654d19961d826c5a557f591plain2019-04-04T23:46:01-04:00Kelly O'Neilldc20b45f1d74122ba0d654d19961d826c5a557f5Stretched from end to end, Russia’s boundary line would have wrapped around the Earth’s equator three times. The empire was vast. Distance mattered.
The average absolute distance from a forest belonging to the Baltic fleet to a shipyard on the Baltic Sea was 566 miles; the forest-to-shipyard distance for the Black Sea Fleet was 380 miles.
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12019-04-04T23:06:27-04:00Kelly O'Neilldc20b45f1d74122ba0d654d19961d826c5a557f5LessonsKelly O'Neill1From Forest to Fleetplain2019-04-05T00:01:26-04:00Kelly O'Neilldc20b45f1d74122ba0d654d19961d826c5a557f5