>>3916599 (OP)Russias geography dooms it to invasions from many sides, poles,swedes,turks,napoleon,hitler. The war scarred and send loads of men to deal with foreign imvaders attitude will still exist
Under constant invasion, winters that make famine more probable and food scarce, a collective desire for stability by a strong ruler will still exist
Orthodox christianity and its nature pushing towards conservatism and traditions will still exist
Expansion into siberia will still exist cuz geographic destiny to dominate siberia and be a vast country
But medieval mongol rule is very overstated, taking tribute was the only thing i guess.
Ironically russia heavily influenced mongolia, even more than mongolia inflenced russia so modern mongolia would be very different without our historys russia