In 17th century, every Ukrainian village controlled by Hetmanat (the government of those days) had schools, and slavery was gone centuries before that. In Ukraine slavery was not a cultural norm, but a suppression. That was not much different from slavery. They just recorded the number of days you worked and were giving you some basic goods. In 1960ties my grandma worked not for money but for so-called “workdays”.
Apart from that, do you know that villagers in USSR could not leave their place of residence and did not have passports until 1974! That was just 5 years before I was born, so my grandparents (and parents when they were kids) were practically serfs. Millions of people were taken to concentration camps and were used as slaves. But in reality, even in the Soviet era it still existed. Moskovites all surrendered to Khan or Tsar.įormally serfdom was abolished only in 1861. Moskovia did not have “normal” feudalism like Europe or Japan, where vassals had much independence and sometimes were fighting each other, and the power of the supreme ruler was limited. That practice existed in Golden Horde and Moskovia, where all people were the property, some were just of a higher level than others. But the big difference is that in other countries the slaves were foreigners taken in wars, raids, and by trade, while in Moskovia they enslaved THEIR OWN people. Yes, slavery existed in other countries too. Many people are asking why common Russians do not stand against the war.
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