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Don't know about all the countries, but since you're answering a comment on Russia, I must say, it reads comically out of touch.

Yeah, the old system was purged alright, but calling it a liberation is disrespectful to the lives of millions of common Soviet people driven to hungry death, being forcefully moved around the country, killed in internal squabbles or purges or otherwise "collectivised".

And it all happened despite the fact they hadn't exactly been property for more than 50 years by the time tsarism was overthrown.




Appropriate comparison would be French Revolution and napoleonic wars that followed. The whole mess lasted for decades.

Tsatism was indisputably a tyrannical system, and many peasants were still not free until they paid for their freedom

‘Most former serfs had to pay a land redemption fee (redemption payments were not abolished until 1907’




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