[dr_who]

I think it was the vikings who were into using the Russians as slav labor.

[keithtoo]

As a matter of historical fact, there were Rushin' Vikings. Here is a pict-ure of them.

[muawiyah]

The Volga Vikings ARE the Russians. Gorbachev, for example, was prototypically Scandinavian! Yeltsin was a "Great Russian", and they are a mixed people of Viking, Greek, Slav and Mongol origins. Life in Russia is usually better when the Scandinavians are on top.

They used everybody they could as slaves, particularly their women, and their fellow Vikings. The most common man's name among the Vikings was "Carl", which means "servant" or "slave".

You read enough about Viking culture and you get the idea that those old boys thought women were a different species useful only for incubating humanculae provided soley by the males!