Exactly the same thing happened, for example, in South Africa. On the one hand 10%of well-educated and civilized minority of white Europeans have about the same approximate their attendants from the Indians and mulattos, and below - 80%of the natives, many of which remained even in the Stone Age. However, modern blacks in South Africa, in 1994, have thrown off the power of "terrible oppression" has not yet come to mind to say that they are involved in the success of the white minority to build a "small Europe". On the contrary, negros in South Africa today are trying to get rid of "legacy" colonizers - are destroying their material civilization (houses, water supply, selhozimeniya), rather than impose their own dialect of Afrikaans, Christianity replaced by shamanism, as well as murder and rape of representatives of the white minority.


In the USSR the same thing happened: the civilization of the white world deliberately destroyed, its members were killed or expelled from the country, in the ecstasy of vengeance previously oppressed majority of the natives can not stay still.

Blog Interpreter seems strange that some educated people in Russia began to divide the population on the "Russian" and "Soviet." Because it would be more correct to call the first "European" and the second "Russian" (the more so in the passports of the Russian Empire, ethnicity was not mentioned, and bear the only religion, that is, the concept of "nationality" in the country was not). Well, or at least, tolerant of the "Russian-1" and "Russian-two."

Interestingly, the negros in the USA have found much in common with the Russian peasants, too, in fact, ex-slaves:

"In the last decade, increasing attention of researchers draw similarities attitude blacks in the Americas with the psychology of the Russian peasantry after their release. Found parallels between the ideas of the Slavophiles to preserve the national spirit and the quest for identity Negro intelligentsia. Universities and lectures about the importance of Russian and Soviet cultural context for understanding the search for African-American writers. Occupy an important place in the program of such courses reports and memoirs of those who went to the USSR in the 20s and 30s, as well as the stories of returning "home to Harlem." Book cover DE Peterson, "From bondage. Literature on the Russian and African-American soul, "which deals with the position of postcolonial literary theory in the representation of Russian and African-American literature duality of human consciousness, is decorated with a reproduction of Repin's" Boatmen on the Volga. "


The parallels (as well as differences) between Russian serfdom and American slavery occurred in the black press in the U.S. is already the 1820s, and later repeated thousands of times. "This system was called serfdom, but it was the worst kind of slavery," - wrote Rogers. Two descriptions of Pushkin's life, the same author (published in 1929 and 1947), written in language understandable to the people of the American South: "Pushkin learned the Russian language from his nanny, a white" Mammy "[Negro-nurse], and the slaves who worked on the plantation of his father ". "Thirty million of his Russian counterparts, whites were held in cruel bondage," and knowing about their plight, Pushkin sympathized with the rebels, "who devoted themselves to the overthrow of the autocracy and the emancipation of the slaves."

According to the African-American author, poet, a special relationship with Arina Rodionovna is possible thanks to the black color of his skin. Nanny and child brings a sense of isolation. Other black authors also write that it was (Negro) race Pushkin made him the spokesman of his soul (Russian) people. For example, Pushkin, becomes the embodiment of the Russian spirit is not, contrary to what he was black, but thanks to this circumstance. Oxley, Thomas argues that "racial traits" Pushkin allowed to become "the first writer who expressed the soul [Russian] people. He felt his heart beat. "

That is, in representations of Blacks USA, Ebony Alexander Pushkin and began the formation of the Russian nation of servants of the European colonizers.

In this light, by the way, and the Revolution in 1917 is not so much socialist as national-liberation movement of the Russian, the Europeans against the colonial administration and their lackeys, "mulatto" (part of the intelligentsia and the commoners).

But it's all a mental description of the Russian oppressed people. A physically lived the slaves of white masters?

The study Bezgina Vladimir, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor of History and Philosophy of Tambov State Technical University, describes the sanitary conditions of peasant life late XIX - early XX century. (Published in the anthology "Russian peasants during the war and peacetime (XVIII - XX centuries. Sat labor. Participants. Scientific. Conf. (Tambov, June 10, 2010) Tambov Univ GOU VPO TSTU. In 2010. On . 23 - 31. study was prepared with financial support from the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), Short-term Grant 2009).


"The Russian peasants were very undemanding in the household. Stranger, above all, struck asceticism of interior decoration. The peasant hut late XIX century differed little from the previous century rural dwellings. Most of the rooms occupied by the furnace, which serves both for heating and cooking. Most of the peasants' huts were heated "black." In 1892 in the village of Epiphany parish Kobel'kov Tambov province of 533 442 households heated "black" and 91 "in white." According to Doctor of Medicine VI Nicholas, who examined the medical and sanitary condition of the inhabitants of Tambov district, for each member of a family of seven, had 21.4 feet of air that was not enough. In winter, the air filled with the miasma of huts and extremely hot.

Sanitary condition of the peasant dwellings depended primarily on the nature of the flooring. If the floor has a wooden floor, and then the house was much cleaner. In houses with earthen floor was covered with their straw. Straw is a universal covering for the floor in a peasant's cottage. Her children and sick family members sent their natural needs, and to the extent of contamination, periodically changed. On the sanitary requirements of the Russian peasants have a vague idea.

The floors are mostly earthen, served as a source of dirt, dust and moisture. In winter in the huts contained young - calves and lambs, therefore, of any neatness could not be considered.

On the clean beds in rural huts can only talk about. Often served as a bed "Solomennikov", ie a bag full of rye straw or spring. Straw did not change it sometimes for a year, she recruited the mass of dust and dirt, make bugs. Almost no bed linen, pillows just sometimes wore pillow cases, but not always the pillow. Sheet replaced the coarse canvas, homespun bedding, blankets and duvet covers did not know any.

It was not in the rural way of life and proper nutrition. Food in peasant families, usually used from the general utensils, cutlery almost did not know, drank from the cups at a time. The dishes after meals peasants are not washed, but only rinsed it in cold water and put in place. Washed dishes in a real way not more than one - two times a year.


And ... in a number of villages and restrooms were not. Thus, in the villages of Voronezh latrines was not satisfied, and "human excrement were scattered over the fields, in the courts, backyards, and devoured by pigs, dogs and chickens."

Ethnographic sources of the late XX century, contain information about the presence of peasant huts pests: cockroaches, bedbugs, fleas. It can be concluded that they were the constant companions of the rural way of life. Head lice - the usual companion of the population, especially a lot of them is found in children. The women in my spare time "looking each other in the head." His mother, caressing her child, by all means, though a little look for parasites in his hair. In the travel notes of A. Mincha, we find the following observation about the author's favorite pastime of one of the peasant villages, "Baba wooden comb that are used for combing flax, digs into his head the other, and often shows an abundance of insects clicking in the hair of our Russian women."

In summer the peasants overcame fleas, even Peter's fast men called flea fasting. During this period in the villages of Vologda was possible to observe the following picture: "In the hut sat a man and a woman, completely naked, and were engaged in catching fleas, without the slightest hesitation - so it is accepted, and nothing here is not reprehensible."

The traditional means of maintaining the purity of the body in the Russian countryside was a bath. But the Russian baths in the village was too little. According to AI Shingaryov, in the early twentieth century in the bath with. Mohovatke there were only 2 of 36 families, while in neighboring New-beast - one in 10 families. Most peasants in Voronezh, as calculated by the author, washed once - twice a month in trays in the house or just the straw.

Lack of personal hygiene was the cause of the spread of most infectious diseases in the Russian countryside. Researcher prerevolutionary period N. Brzhesky based on the study of everyday life of peasants chernozem provinces came to the conclusion that "the poor water quality and resolute indifference to content yourself clean causes the spread of contagious diseases." And could it be otherwise when eating from one bowl and drank from one mug, wiped a towel, use someone else's underwear. Explaining the reason for the wide spread of syphilis in the village, the doctor G. Gertsenshtein pointed out that "the disease is not spread through sex, and is transmitted through everyday obschezhitelskih relationship healthy and sick family members, neighbors, and I go people. Overall bowl, spoon, an innocent child kiss the infection spreading further and further ... ". Most researchers, both past and present solidarity that the basic form of infection and spread of syphilis in the Russian village was home due to non-public elementary rules of hygiene.

The food was infant milk from a bottle, pacifier with a plastic gutta-percha, often cow tits and zhovka, all contained in a very unclean. In the busy season with a dirty smelly child horn left on all day under the supervision of young nurses. The appeal of Dr. V. Nikitenko, "On the fight against infant mortality in Russia" indicated the main cause of infant death, as in Central Russia and Siberia: "Neither Jew nor Tatar not a substitute for your own milk teat, it's very Russian tradition, and one of the most disastrous. The general testimony, non-breast-feeding a baby - the main reason for their extinction. " Lack of breast milk in the diet of infants makes them vulnerable to intestinal infections, especially common in the summer. The majority of children under one year died in a Russian village due to diarrhea. "

The great writer Maxim Gorky, in his letter "On the Russian Peasantry ', described their thoughts in relation to the city, that is, of European civilization:" Finally, after a long, fierce critics of the city "zabavok," said the bearded man, with a sigh: - If revolution we are doing - on the ground for a long time to become quiet and order would be ... Sometimes the attitude towards the citizens is expressed in a simple but radical form: - Cut off from the ground should be all educated, then we, fools will be easy to live with, and then - zamayali you have! "" We can now say with confidence that, at the cost of destruction of the intelligentsia and the working class, the Russian peasantry came to life ", - concluded bitter.


Surely with the further development of Russian, democratic nationalism theme of the liberation movement of peasants, he started against the autochthonous European colonialism will be further developed.