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Voltaire2

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2. slavery continued in Russia, especially in the east, up until the revolution

Reply to Act_of_Reparation (Reply #1)

Thu May 23, 2019, 12:57 PM

May 2019

and the ROC was knee deep in the system, owning extensive estates and the serfs that came with them.

Perhaps this history has a bit to do with the antipathy of the population toward giving public lands to the ROC.

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