Step 1: Hold it
Step 2: Walk calmly
Step 3: Enter restroom
Step 4: Calmly sit down with pants off
Step 5: Release
Based on the other answer, I'm guessing that it was A. Russians were likely to reject pure Marxism because Marx was a German. (I'll update it when I know for sure.)
Answer: they were objects that belonged to their masters and not considered people or citizens.