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I thought that was so. nossy Send a noteboard - 28/07/2010 02:53:21 PM
Russia had its own domestic slaves, the peasants. They were not allowed to leave their land and could pretty much be legally killed at any time by the nobility. As a result, there were pretty much NO Africans in Russia up through World War II. After the war, with the spread of international communism, the Patrice Lumumba International Friendship University was founded and hosted a number of African students, but the numbers were still small.

As a result, Africans are still the object of race-based attacks (though they suffer perhaps less than people who live in greater numbers in Russia such as Azeris, Tajiks and Uzbeks). Civil Rights? Seriously? You even asked?

Yes, I asked. And see? It's always nice to learn something in the morning.

I know a bit about the peasant situation (family lived in Russia from something like 1760-1912), as well as the ethnic/cultural/etc groups. Even though I know it was nothing like the Americas, I didn't know anything about whether black slaves had ever been utilized. And they are spoken of as slaves at the ball, so I wasn't sure whether that was a Russian thing or not.
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