This was not by any means easy, because the peasants, terrorized by him, and well knowing an old Russian saying, ‘God is far away, while your chief is your next-door neighbour,’ did not dare to testify.
Kropotkin recounts the fear of peasants to testify against a corrupt official due to intimidation.
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