Splitting up families, sending women to Siberia, sending men to Baja California and the Pribilofs and retaining children as hostages is not just taking a part of the catch. They also did forced conversion to Christianity. Which, depending on your point of view, could be viewed as either good or bad.
In our South, there are people who will tell you that the Civil War was a war of Northern aggression and was about trade, not slavery. And they will tell you slavery was a good thing.
http://www.salon.com/2012/10/12/ten_conservatives_who_have_praised_slavery/
And the US was no better with respect to the people of the Aleutian Islands and the Kodiak Island group than the Russians. They moved everyone off the Aleutians during WW2.
In our South, there are people who will tell you that the Civil War was a war of Northern aggression and was about trade, not slavery. And they will tell you slavery was a good thing.
http://www.salon.com/2012/10/12/ten_conservatives_who_have_praised_slavery/
And the US was no better with respect to the people of the Aleutian Islands and the Kodiak Island group than the Russians. They moved everyone off the Aleutians during WW2.