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Its the same with Turkic,Iranic,Arabic,Indian Continent,East Asians,Anglo Saksens,Germanic etc.I think you have a misguided perception of Slavic society.
Slavic society is not homogeneous. It wasn't historically, and it isn't today. The people inhabiting, for example, 16th century Krakow, would have been (by the standards of the time) prosperous, enlightened and educated, protected by clearly defined laws and courts, and with a king who was elected each time by a nobility that was around 10% of the population. They would be mostly Catholic, speak Polish and Latin, the architecture around them beautiful boroque. Comparing the life and society of a city-dweller from the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth to one from 16th Muscowy would be bizarre, the two inhabited completely different worlds and continued to do so for hundreds of years.
Any generalized statement made in regards to Slavic society will be wrong on the basis that Slavic society is very different. This is something that Ukrainians, Polaks, Balts and others have tried to communicate to the outside world whose understanding of Slavic society for the last hundred years was centered on Moscow. We are not like Russians, Polaks are not like Estonians, Czechs are not like Bulgarians, in the same way that the English are not like Swedes and the French and not like Italians.