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- XXII. The Exile System
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here. It would involve not merely a history of the exile
system, but a history of Russian civilisation itself.
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| exiles on the lena. |
The truth is that the exile system has worked in a vicious
circle, spreading its curse, directly and indircctly, through
every department of life, and to all classes of people—the
exiles themselves, the people with whom they live, and
the authorities who have charge of them.
The relations between the Russian Siberians proper and
the “varnaks”, [1] as the exiles are called, are anything
[1] The word “Varnak” is derived from the Russian initials V. R. N. K.,
denoting the words: “Vor, razboinyik, nakazanny knutom” (= thief, robber,
punished with the knout), and with these initials the exiles were formerly
branded.
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