>There were some labour problems on the land, and many local German peasants, chafing at life under something close to feudalism, drifted westwards into the cities. But Bismarck solved this, in the same way that many of his neighbouring landowners did, by employing cheaper Russian and Polish migrant workers instead. Thus the architect of the modern German state pursued a way of life increasingly reliant upon non-German hands.
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It doesn't get more German than that
Vadim Rutkovsky
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