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Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin: The Great Russian peasant perfectly well understands the educated man’s talk, provided that it is not stuffed with words…

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The Great Russian peasant perfectly well understands the educated man’s talk, provided that it is not stuffed with words taken from foreign languages.
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Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin

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Kropotkin asserts that educated individuals can be understood by peasants if they avoid foreign jargon.

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