Re:Russia is persecuting dissenters by taking away their chi...
by JumpCrisscross on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @10:13AM
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> Russians have never had any real individual rights
Russians had a real thing going in the 19th century. Turgenev [0], for example, wrote contemporaneously around when the serfs were freed [1]. Their history went in the direction of a series strongmen, similar to China today, but there was a balancing point when it could have been different.
Russians had a real thing going in the 19th century. Turgenev [0], for example, wrote contemporaneously around when the serfs were freed [1]. Their history went in the direction of a series strongmen, similar to China today, but there was a balancing point when it could have been different.
[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Sportsman%27s_Sketches
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fathers_and_Sons_(novel)
[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emancipation_reform_of_1861