Russia is serf. The history of popular slavery

Everyone knows that in Russia there was serfdom. But what it really was - today few people know. This topic was surrounded by a kind of conspiracy of silence, which continues to this day. Apparently, the truth about the two -century period of folk slavery is often too uncomfortable for various reasons. Therefore, the fact that at the time of the beginning of the peasant reform was completely missed, the twenty -three million peasants represented the full private property of their gentlemen. And this “baptized property” was sold with the separation of families, referred to Siberia, played into cards and, finally, died from inhuman punishments not only until the very date of “release”