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

which gave rise to joint settlements. Every family built its own house, very often with
the most active help of neighbours and relatives. Some people had a tradition of
building a big family or communal house, but this custom was not wide-spread
among our ancestors, so it does not make sense to spare it much time. Initially, each
family made its own necessities of life. Everyone made tools exclusively for himself
and for his own needs.

As soon as the productivity of the cultivated lands and vegetable gardens be-
came sufficient to provide the necessary supplies for the whole fall-winter-spring pe-
riod and the livestock gave enough meat, milk, hides and wool to provide adequate
food and warm clothes for winter, people got some time to relax and reflect during
the inclement weather. Certainly, nobody “hibernated” in autumn and winter; when
the weather was fine men often left for hunting to get some fresh meat, thus, saving
more domestic animals for spring. Sometimes they were lucky, sometimes not. But
often, especially in bad weather, hunting became at least very difficult or even impos-
sible.

During these inclement days, when a snow-storm howled outside the door and
frost penetrated to the bone, or cold and gloomy autumn rain drizzled for days inun-
dating all around and good earth turned into impassable mud, man sat in his house
and warmed himself by the fireside. He was warm and dry. He looked at the fire.
What ideas came into his head in such moments? Undoubtedly, he thought about the
felicity of being able simply to sit by the fire in his house and just rest from his la-
bours, enjoying quiet and heartfelt socializing with his nearest and dearest and
friends, etc. But most people got tired of such idleness very quickly. It is also true
that some not very hard-working people felt no inconvenience at all. But, one way or
another, there always was a person who began to think about next spring, how to
plough up the fields and vegetable gardens and grow a good harvest, and what could
be done in order to facilitate future chores.

These thoughts made a person remember how hard the procurement of “one’s
daily bread” is and how he dreamed of easing this heavy load. The majority of people
did nothing but dream, but, sooner or later, a person appeared who went directly to
business! Sooner or later, a skilled craftsman appeared and invented new tools which
turned these dreams into reality. The use of new materials and methods of treating
them; mastering of metal working technologies (more precisely, the renewal, at the
most primitive level, of technologies lost after the planetary catastrophe 13 016 years
ago) resulted in a frenzy of economic development. The use of iron allowed the crea-
tion of tools (and not only tools) which dramatically facilitated man’s labour. It is of
interest that metal mining and working technologies appeared at once which indicates
that they were not re-discovered, but presented for practical application in a ready
form, only at a low technological level which corresponded to the level of develop-
ment of the civilization. Their almost simultaneous appearance in several places
where the white race dwelt says that this was not a casual phenomenon. This means
that there were people who had proper knowledge and managed to apply them when
the opportunity occurred, proceeding from possibilities which nature and the current
level of development of the civilization permitted. In fact, in order to smelt iron, for

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