For 11 Years, the Soviet Union Had No Weekends
But in the eyes of the Soviet government led by Joseph Stalin, Sundays represented a genuine threat to the whirr and hum of industrial progress. For one day in seven, after all, machines sat silent, productivity slumped to zero and people retreated to comforts thought to be contrary to the revolutionary ideal, like family life or religious practice.
On the following Sunday, no such collective pause for breath took place. Eighty percent of the workforce were told to go to work; 20 percent to stay home.
It’s different now. Twenty percent of the workforce is told to go to work; 80 percent to stay home.
And that 80% get to sit on their collective backsides thanks to government handouts which often pay better than the jobs they had before.
It’s some 90 years since the Soviets invented the “internal passport”, it has taken our politicians that long to copy the idea. They just love the idea of total control so can we expect the gulags next?.
Remember, Kids, in a Worker’s Paradise you are still JUST a worker.
Regulating people’s lives in every detail. And they didn’t need a “pandemic” to do it! That sounds so progressive! Especially because it failed.