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

quered Dravidia (Ancient India) during the First Conquest.

I would like to draw your attention to one interesting fact. The tribes and people
differed pretty strongly from each other in their evolutional level even within one
race. Due to the reasons expounded before, the level of development of the tribes and
people which developed Equatorial, Subequatorial, Tropical and Subtropical zone
was considerably lower than the level of development of the tribes and people which
developed the Temperate zone of Midgard-earth. As it was exactly the white race that
rendered habitable the Temperate Zone, it appeared to be evolutionally ahead of all
other races which settled on our planet. The communities and clans of the white race
banished parasitic elements, which, on abandoning native lands, gathered in bands
and, having some luck, subdued the tribes and people of other races, converting them
into slaves.

It was the way they got everything necessary for life. But at the same time, they
involuntarily evolutionally “pulled” the subdued tribes and people to a higher level of
development. There were masters of different handicrafts among outcasts who were
expelled out of the clans for murder and violence; there were also those who had oth-
er skills and knowledge. So, in a new place they tried to recreate the handicrafts on
the basis of slave labour. Most likely, they were not the best masters, but, neverthe-
less, they tried to recreate the social organism they knew from their childhood on the
basis of slavery. At the initial stages they sometimes even succeeded in breaking
“through” due to cruelty toward slaves and strict organization and discipline, but
slave labour was never effective.

However, for a long time, while the tools were pretty primitive, the labour of a
free man differed little from the labour of a slave. In order to grow a harvest, even a
free man was forced to work from dawn to dusk. A slave did almost the same, how-
ever not because of his own will, but under the compulsion of a slave-owner’s slave-
drivers. The results of the labour of a free man belonged to him; only ten percent,
called a tithe was given for the needs of the community. Therefore, despite the fact
that a free man lived by the sweat of his brow, he and his family owned the results of
his labour, while a slave belonged to a slave-owner, like an object, as did all the re-
sults of his labour. A place under a roof and a piece of bread so as not to die of hun-
ger were the only things slaves got for their labour. Many slave-owners would gladly
not have fed their slaves, if they could have worked without food. In Central Ameri-
ca, for example, the Aztecs and Maya did not feed the war prisoners, but gave them
strong drugs. Taking them, a person did not want to eat and could work for twenty
hours a day, but… completely “burned out” over a month or month and a half. Cer-
tainly, this was a complete absurdity, but, nevertheless, it happened.

The labour of a slave and a free man differed little in its essence, except for the
distribution of the results of this labour. A slave had nothing and did not even be-
long to himself, while a free man was his own owner and owned 90% of his labour.
This was the main difference between a free man and a slave — their position con-
cerning the distribution of the products of their own labour. There is a stimulus in one
case and its complete absence in another, but for the fear of punishment in the case of
refusing to work under constraint. Exactly this psychological factor which is a work-

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