File talk:PreviouslyHeldTerr RussianEmpire.PNG

I think the captions are rather bizarre. When did either Russian Empire or USSR "directly rule" e.g. Albania, or Bulgaria, or Yugoslavia? While one can argue that the communist governments of those countries were under Soviet control during certain time periods, this is not what one would normally mean by "direct control", methinks. Same probably goes for Mongolia or even Afghanistan. And on that deal on the cession of Xinjiang and Tibet by Qing... references please! Vmenkov (talk) 09:22, 21 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Ya, it isn't a very good map.--Cody6 (talk) 23:59, 24 January 2008 (UTC)