The Redeeming Payments of the Serfs

In 1861, he frees the serfs with a stroke of his pen. And when he does this, he basically like locks them all into debt and into continued servitude. But just from a capitalist point of view, instead, he the peasants now owe him a lot of money for the land that they are given. Then he is like gives the money to the nobles who have lost their property or whatever. So surf's got a really shitty deal, except kind of interestingly, the surfs in Poland got a way better deal.