While there were some oil fields in Sakhalin, production only took off in the 1990's - that they would be technologically developed in 1930's is technologically ASB if nothing else. Same with Kamchatka that only took off in late 1980's. Sorry.
Oh? Then check out this article for a counter-view.
Please ignore the host site's Soviet apologism, I'd like to link to the university but it seems to be under data protection or something.
Even assuming that is correct - I have grave reservations about the German military invading a whole Czechoslovakia in 1938 - how does that translate into Nazi victory, or even put Germany in a better position?
I didn't know you were a Vietnam war veteran.
A whole lot of Vietnamese were killed, I'm not sure what else was accomplished.
Dolchstoßlegende? That's a surprisingly apt description.
I'm not sure if it counts as "Russia", but if Khmelnytsky was less of a reactionary ass I guess something progressive could come out of the Cossack Hetmanate.
Unrecognizable from the original form maybe, but again I think people vastly underestimate the competence of geologists. Conglomerates - which concrete turns into - give important clues about the ancient environment they formed in, and I doubt this is an exception, especially since there would...
And the problem isn't very severe now either, growth-horny mentality (which I think this boils down to) aside. Just for comparison:
http://populationpyramid.net/china/
http://populationpyramid.net/france/
...Which is apparently more disastrous than a couple hundred million extra people, which definitely wouldn't have an aging problem a few decades from now.