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and this is a kind of prebendal form of feudalism.
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That means the nobility who is serving the czar--
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for instance Russia was ruled typically after Ivan the Terrible, my namesake,
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and until the Russian Revolution,
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by a kind of prebendal system,
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in which the czar gave an estate to the lords,
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as long as they were loyal to it.
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We see this now happening in Russia again.
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President Putin actually took the billions of dollars of wealth,
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what people received from president Yeltsin as private property,
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because he did not think they are loyal.
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So these people ended up in jail,