Kosatik: Unlike the Slovaks, we have long known that there are “piles of dung” in Russia
“They just didn’t have the Karl Havliceks who came to Russia in the mid-19th century, saw the piles of manure, came home, said, ‘There are piles of manure in Russia, don’t be crazy.’ (Havlíček Borovský wrote his book Pictures from Russia in 1844 as a raw study of the life of people in Tsarist Russia, where he had originally gone as a Russophile for an eighteen-month stay, ed.)
Source: https://service.ucl.cas.cz/edicee/data/sborniky/kongres/CLKT1/19.pdf (p. 178)
Source: https://seznamzpravy.cz/kosatik-na-rozdil-od-slovaku-davno-vime-ze-v-rusku-jsou-hromady-hnoje