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Re:The Norway Model: How the Scandinavian country became a l... by mongol on Tuesday December 05, 2023 @01:30AM (#38527745)
Russia had serfdom and dictatorship for most of its history.
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Re:The Norway Model: How the Scandinavian country became a l... by Goodroo on Tuesday December 05, 2023 @02:44AM (#38528101)
Isn't that much of Europe?
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Re:The Norway Model: How the Scandinavian country became a l... by mongol on Tuesday December 05, 2023 @04:09AM (#38528534)
If we compare with the northern latitudes, which my comment was a response to: For Norway / Sweden / Finland, no not really. Serfdom did not exist in a similar form after medieval times, and neither did autocracy from late 18th / early 19th century onwards. Finland, even though part of Russia for much of this time, did not have serfdom.
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Re:The Norway Model: How the Scandinavian country became a l... by ffgjgf1 on Tuesday December 05, 2023 @03:48AM (#38528410)
Serfdom disappeared almost 500 years or so earlier in Western Europe that it did in Russia (or most of Germany for that matter..)
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