User blog comment:UndeadHero/My timeline needs you! TO OPININATE!/@comment-3084244-20120526194404/@comment-1630894-20120526195910

Hawaii was taken by the US in 1898, it just didn't become a state until 61 years later, the same year that Alaska, which had been owned by the US since 1867, became a state. Russia had nothing to do with Hawaii.