Talk:Slavs/@comment-83.248.19.247-20170921203606/@comment-27726014-20180405060607

This is more focused on the Slavs in the middle ages. You are more thinking of the Russian orthodox church which was founded because the Byzantine orthodox church fell at the same time.

Serfs were common in many countries like Frankia and many of the German states. It was just that the Russians maintained that system far longer than anyone else did.