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Nicolai Levashov. Russian History Viewed through Distorted Mirrors. Vol. 1

norance or the conscious deception of ignorant masses intentionally carried out by
some group. And although it is possible to take ignorance as an excusing factor, con-
scious deception is a crime which should be treated accordingly. I will come back to
this question later on...

Meanwhile, let us come back to the analysis of how natural factors influence the
evolutional development of the human community and economic relations inside it.
The most vivid example of this is how the white race developed the areas of the con-
tinental climate. The presence of strongly expressed four seasons, especially the snow
and frosty winter, allows us to see more clearly how natural factors influence the evo-
lution of both an individual and a community. The seasonal alternation forces man to
act and it does not matter whether he wants to or not. The choice is very simple: ei-
ther man takes the necessary action or he dies very quickly. There is, however, anoth-
er choice, not the best and effective one, that of social parasitism which is a very in-
teresting phenomenon, but I will talk about it later, primarily, because in order for so-
cial parasites to appear, it is necessary that a social “organism” on which they can
parasitize is formed; so let us see how a healthy social “organism” is born in the con-
ditions of the temperate climate…

2.11. The forming of a social organism in temperate climatic con-
ditions

The winter period of 3 or 4 months makes the Temperate Zone very difficult for
the inhabitants to live in. Let us refresh our memory a little. In order to survive the
temperature fluctuations in the fall-winter-spring period, like it or not, man needs
very warm clothing. For this it is necessary not only to kill animals which have thick
hair, but also to learn to treat the hides and pelts of these animals and invent ways of
making clothing out of them. Undoubtedly, it is very convenient to have warm
clothes, but it is not enough to survive the fierce winter cold. It is also necessary to
build a warm dwelling to protect man not only from frost and wind, but predators too;
which during a hungry winter time would willingly taste human meat. The most
primitive and very uncomfortable dwelling is an earth-house — a pit dug in the
ground and covered by logs and branches of trees with earth piled on top. However,
in order to build even such a primitive dwelling, tools are needed, albeit primitive,
but even they must be invented and made. Someone could object — why dig pits, if it
is possible to live in caves? Correct, there is however one little “but”. How many nat-
ural caves are there, especially in the forest?

I hope that the answer to this question is clear for everyone. Therefore, we can
immediately cross caves off the list of variants for possible dwellings. If someone
was lucky enough to find and render them habitable – good for them! All the rest, to
whom fate showed less kindness, had no option, but to build their dwelling with their
own hands. To do this man must invent and make implements. The human hands, un-
armed with tools, are unable to dig a pit and cut trees for the ceiling. This means that
the first step was that someone invented the necessary implements and taught others
to use them. We will not investigate now, when and by whom this “technical revolu-
tion” was accomplished, but only when those primitive implements, like a shovel, axe

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