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More and more Western mercs are running for their lives. Snip:

"Prozorov elaborated that foreign mercenaries complain about the incompetence of the Ukrainian command, their cowardice and betrayal, as fighters were thrown into useless attacks and “meat grinds” under Russian artillery."

The former Ukrainian officer also pointed out that at least several hundred Neo-Nazis from all over the world came to fight for Kiev.

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[-] huf@hexbear.net 10 points 3 months ago

didnt some parts of russia keep basically buying/selling their serfs well after the legal abolishment?

[-] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml 15 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Yeah in some parts landowners power were so much it basically happened, just not as openly as before, mostly together with land because that so called "enfranchisement of peasants" in Russia for most peasants kept them tied, just by debt and not law. Of course it did had one huge difference in that they could legally leave their land now, but they would have to leave everything - and still millions did it, though mostly from hunger and despair. As Lenin mentioned, one of the chief reasons for even abolishing serfdom was that capitalists demanded workforce which couldn't be satisfied by petrified feudal society.

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