Peasant family drinking tea. Late 19th century, Russia

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  1. The Rich in the British Isles used to drink their Tea from the/a Saucers then when the Plea followed suit they stopped .

  2. Of course, it would be much better to say “by imposing tax on both you and everyone else, we can share the cost of schooling an infrastructure, and built a society with a technological market economy, where some are rich and some aren’t as rich, but everyone have a great minimum standard of living”. But that’s a little hard to get across I guess. I’m not surprised how a communist demagog was able to convince these people to revolt against the elite instead.

  3. Orthodox family, head coverings were traditional in Christian societies for most of the last millennium. The beards are also probably a similar tradition.

  4. They don’t seem too poor, for Russian peasant standards at least, if they’re drinking tea from a samovar. Are they kulaks?

  5. I was born in Moldova and this was how that village somewhat lived in the early 2000s. Especially the headscarves with grandmas.

  6. Tea is a bourgeois ploy to prevent the mass from gaining class consciousness and raising against their oppressors.

  7. reminds you that if you have an electronic device to look at this picture with, you are in the top 0.1% of people who ever lived.

  8. Sry meant more like “happier ‘in a way’ than us” not like happy happy 🙂

    Sad to hear it was more like suspected then.. good luck to you

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