THE BOOK OF
RUSSKIES
OTHERWISE KNOWN AS THE BOOK OF THE MOTHERLAND
Tchaikovsky invents music
Chapter 14
kMeanwhile, the czars were speeding along in their continuing attempt to modernize Russia,
2And eventually got around to freeing the serfs,
3About three or four hundred years after Europe did,
4Except that they had to keep on being peasants,
5Which was something like being a serf,
6In fact, it was a lot like being a serf,
7lWhich meant that the peasants didn’t have to give up being miserable just to be modern.
8This discovery was a big relief to the Russkies,
9Who had been so worried about it that it caused them to drag their feet just a little bit when it came to trying out new ideas.
10Fortunately, though, the whole Russkie nation started to take an interest in trying other new ideas,
11After they’d thought about it for a few more years,
12Which brings us to mWorld War I.
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