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You have confused peasants with serfs. Peasants took care of themselves, also staying within their minds, and have largely been eliminated starting with the Bolshevik revolution. Their weakness was not able to defend against this wicked behavior of the elite, the thought never occurr3d to them something so vile could exist. Please make a note of this: you are calling on the name of something that no longer exists.

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Peasants in the derogatory or pejorative is still used today to refer to the unsophisticated or unwashed lower classes from the viewpoint of the "enlightened" self-appointed elites and that was clearly the context it served.

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Indeed. I just this morning published a short article on this subject.

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