Russia still lived in Feudal times up to the Revolution.
Reminds me one of the early scenes of Monty Python and the Holy Grail:
'Bow before the King"
"How did you know that was the King?"
"He's the only one without shit on his clothes."
Funny, but Marx said that the Revolution would be in industrialized countries, but Russia was still largely agrarian, and indeed was the most backward of the European countries. Mind you, Marx was wrong about a lot of things.
But, way too OT, even for me.
cheers, frank
"The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true." -J. Robert Oppenheimer
From: graywolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: About my name Date: Sun, 07 Mar 2004 15:30:42 -0500
Interesting comment, Frank. The peasants spoke Russian, and the Nobles spoke French. That is why they rebelled (grin). Come to think of it the same thing happened in England much earlier. Sir Walter Scott wrote an amusing chapter about this language phenomenon in one of his books.
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