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Re:Russian forces invade Ukraine after Putin orders attack by petre on Thursday February 24, 2022 @07:53AM (#30454074)
Russia is close to a modern day feudal state if you think about it. The only difference is that Putin splits the country's mineral resources with the oligarchy instead of the land. This is coming from an acclaimed Russian novelist, Vladimir Sorokin. This Spiegel interview with Sorokin dates from before the 2008 Russo-Georgian war:

https://www.spiegel.de/international/spiegel/spiegel-intervi...

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Re:Russian forces invade Ukraine after Putin orders attack by hprotagonist on Thursday February 24, 2022 @09:59AM (#30455464)
at some level, it’s fair to say that serfdom just never stopped: you can call the leader “tsar”, “comrade”, “president”, or whatever else you want if it makes you happy, but “prole” and “serf” are more or less cognates too.
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