From 1929-1940, the Soviet Union didn't have weekends

From 1929-1940 the Soviet Union didn't have weekends

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
In fact of the day, day day, day day do
do do do do do do do do do do.

Speaker 2 (00:12):
Dude. Today's fact of the day is for calendar week
the table people are loving, loving, because everyone just takes
calendars for granted, you.

Speaker 3 (00:22):
Say this, Hailey and I have not been impressed this week,
have were It's been a little life faster at both
underwhelmed and overwhelmed.

Speaker 2 (00:33):
Today's fact of the day is for eleven years, the
Soviet Union had no weekends.

Speaker 3 (00:38):
Okay, okay, what because they just worked. They worked, so
betiment of the of the country.

Speaker 2 (00:43):
September nineteen, September twenty nine, nineteen twenty nine was the
last Sunday of Sundays. Yeah, and the Soviet Union, as
Joseph Stalin said, it makes no sense that everybody takes
a day off at the same time, because look, these
factories and machines have been signed product and so they
were six days. They were working six days a week.

(01:04):
Sunday was the only day off anybody got. Big Church
day for the Orthodox Russian jess, you know, just a
family day, play in your house, the sorts of things
you always do on your day off.

Speaker 3 (01:15):
Well, it was only one day off.

Speaker 2 (01:16):
It was a six day working week, so it's not weekend,
it's just a day off, a day off Sunday, and
so Sunday, September twenty ninth was the last time before
the new five day working week was introduced.

Speaker 3 (01:29):
But everybody was on a different five day working week. Okay,
your Tuesday to Saturdays. It's smart, isn't it.

Speaker 2 (01:35):
One seventh of the labor force works Saturday to worked Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday,
and then the next seventh started Monday and worked through
tall Fridayriday, and then the next one started Tuesday and
worked through to all Saturday. So it was always working. Yeah,
it was only a small percentage of people not working
every day cheapers, so that meant that factories and everything

(02:00):
far more productive. But obviously people didn't love it, Yeah,
because they couldn't. Hey, you might have family that you
want to spend time with, but they're on a different
five day working week. Now you do have two days
off a week, but it might not be two days
that links up with anybody else.

Speaker 3 (02:11):
I mean, that's just kind of life for a lot
of people right now.

Speaker 2 (02:13):
Anyway, That's what I was going to get to is
that then they changed it to After a while, they
were like, this is working, so well, let's just put
it back to a six six day working week. But
everybody starts on a different day, so it went from
the five day working Now you're back where you started.

Speaker 3 (02:26):
You're not getting days off at the same time as
your family. Oh that's awful.

Speaker 2 (02:29):
People were fairly unhappy with it, and so it was
scrapped by nineteen forty eleven years of trial and error
and changing.

Speaker 3 (02:36):
After it began.

Speaker 2 (02:36):
In nineteen twenty nine, they brought back Sunday being the
day off and Soviet Russia. But now, like you're saying,
like everybody works different shift, workers work throughout, not really
about calendars, So is it, well it is.

Speaker 3 (02:50):
Because here stick it up your ass.

Speaker 2 (02:51):
It's a nineteen thirty Soviet calendar with a five day
work week, but it's not really basic demands down the side,
and this would be what.

Speaker 3 (03:00):
Group you belong to, promised fireman. Each group had an age,
group had a symbol.

Speaker 2 (03:04):
For example, there was a there was the group represented
by the sickle, there was the hammer.

Speaker 3 (03:09):
It was the avis kind of there was a star and.

Speaker 2 (03:12):
A flag, and so you would know that that by
this calendar that was the start of your five day
right on the start of your next five day work
with not so you said it wasn't a calendar, but
I've just shown you.

Speaker 3 (03:24):
I feel like, well, that looks like a big wall
planner right now. I have kept asking, like, do something
about the stalls in the malls. Yeah, do something about
the fireman's calendar. You know, you know about the stalls
in the malls. Okay, that's only going to get more
and more convoluted.

Speaker 2 (03:38):
So today's today's fact to day. For eleven years, from
nineteen twenty nine to nineteen forty, the Soviet Union had
no weekends.