It is awful to think of it: flogging before the corps till he was carried away unconscious on a sheet, and then degradation to a soldiers’ sons’ battalion--anything was possible, in those times.
Kropotkin reflects on the brutal punishments faced by individuals in his time, highlighting the severity of the regime.
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