Better to be a serf, the lowest serf on the earth, than to be a king in Hades."

在世上做一个奴隶,一个最卑贱的奴隶,也比在冥界称王要好得多"

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What happens in Russia is what happens in Prussia, as well, and in other parts of Eastern Europe, particularly in the Hapsburg domains--you have, to make a very bad pun, a resurfacing of the region by people forced into serf contracts.

在普鲁士发生了与俄国一样的事情,东欧的其他地区也是一样,特别是哈布斯堡王朝的领域,说个不好的双关语吧,被迫签下契约变成农奴的人们把这些地区改头换面了

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