Yes, learn a bit about the history. In the USSR, peasants were essentially serfs. They only got internal passports in the 1960s and 1970s, and without those th

Yes, learn a bit about the history. In the USSR, peasants were essentially serfs. They only got internal passports in the 1960s and 1970s, and without those they could not leave the village without permission. They worked for a state collective farm, most of their pay came in just counting the "labour-days" they contributed - a totally self-containbed, essentially prison-like economic system. So yes, I agree, I originally brought up serfs as being something from 150 years ago, but it was more like 50-60 years ago.