Trip to the mountains "Light" - 9

where to hurry, let's talk first ...

"Grandfather, brains are not cool, we have to decide things, we still have to go to other villages!"

Oh, dear man, can you have everything you need and buy here!

Let's go through the neighbors, by the way they are my relatives!

"Oh, I read that you had villages in the mountains, where you lived from only one kind, is that true?"

Yes it is. Here we are from the nomad family - "Mingy", "Chagatai" live in the neighboring village, but through the ridge, the descendants of the great family live in the village "Gazgan", the Naiman warriors. In the 19th century, they fell behind the carvan going to Keder, and they stayed here!

"Yes, you have an interesting story"!

I will tell you more, in the 18-19 centuries and the beginning of the 20th century, we had settlements, where the masters lived in some, just below their slaves. They defended the owners, they worked for them.

"Slaves in the 20th century" ????

And what do you think! Slaves disappeared only in 1920 ... although then there was slavery in a different format ...

"What"?

Well, that's me by the way ...

"And what kind of slaves were they, what happened to the masters and slaves later?"

The hosts were sent in Siberia, the Caucasus and Ukraine in 1930s for re-education. Some of them returned in the 50s of the last century.

Slaves, freed, but sent from mountain villages, to explore the steppe it was just in the beginning - mid 50s of the 20th century.

Now the descendants of the masters and slaves live together, although some in the village of Verkhniy Udum and others in the village of Nizhny Udum.

"Wow, so the names in the mountains are given for a reason, for villages, tracts, rivers"?

Of course! All of them have deeply hidden roots, they can denote fortresses, places for gatherings of wandering monks, the village of slaves and the village of security guards, the village of the owners.

Forbidden territories, places of hidden workshops, they had a place to be in the 17-19 centuries, when rich nobles, went from taxes and created their craft workshops, jewelry workshops. And sometimes stamped and "left" money, that is, engaged in counterfeiting. Moreover, their gold, silver and copper coins were higher breakdown than those that went to the principalities and the kingdom of the CAO!

"Wow, old man, and you know a lot!"

Well, I was a teacher until the rural, highland school was closed!

"Why closed?"

Children and grandchildren began to leave for the city, we still have a hard life, there is no running water, you need to go to the river for water, there is no gas, you need to cook dinner on the wood, turn off the light by 9 o'clock in the evening. You need to graze cattle, collect nuts on the slopes, water the garden in the floodplain. Mow the grass, feed livestock.

Internet - no, you need for this, climb the mountains to a height of 1500 meters.

Perspectives? Well, except that to be a farmer or serve tourists.

"I see"!

So, that's because of this, young and leave.

Well, okay, son, tell me what news in the city, what do you have in price now?

"Yes, we are modernizing the economy at full steam. We are trying to break out of neo-feudolism into state capitalism!"

And ... what are you saying, state capitalism?

"Well, this is when monopolies are everywhere, high customs duties, high credit rates, attraction of new investments!"

Ahh, nothing is clear ...

Well, and live in the city easier?

"How to say ... there is relative comfort, but tariffs are high, prices for medicines are high, prices for food are high, for Chinese clothes made, somewhere in the province are high."

Yes, everywhere, life is not easy ...