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Re:Why a medieval peasant got more vacation time than you by coldtea on Monday September 02, 2013 @10:16AM (#6315242)
USSR needed both (agriculture expansion and industrilization).

So, apart from peasants, million other Russians were forced to work in industry, in horrible conditions, and millions died (and thousands were executed) in the process of increasing industrial production.

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Re:Why a medieval peasant got more vacation time than you by pandaman on Monday September 02, 2013 @02:02PM (#6316286)
The topic of this discussion "if a peasant's life was so sweet why did they run to factories?". You proposed they were forced to do so at gun point. I presented a contradictory fact - peasants were forced to stay peasants at gun point. You go off topic. I concede, there is no way we could persuade each other so you win as you can downvote my posts.
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