Equality, Cinderella and the Revolution MAKE Upon exiting the Middle Ages, poverty was the same everywhere, both in Russia, France, Romania or Denmark. About 200 years ago, in the beginning of the 19th century, if your family was part of the poor, it didn't matter where you were born - on the left shore of Teleajen, or the right shore of the Thames - because poverty was the same everywhere. That is how, among the colonists of the Falanster of Scăieni, created in 1835 and disbanded towards next year, legend says that there were also English immigrants, attracted by the application of the Fourierist ideas, in the socialist dream of egalitarianism.