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Post by Bonobo on Jan 21, 2020 21:17:45 GMT 1
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Post by naukowiec on Aug 30, 2021 15:56:28 GMT 1
Work to get free saturdays off.
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Post by Bonobo on Oct 24, 2021 12:52:48 GMT 1
Sorry, no. The photos show the so called social work which was voluntary unpaid work en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SubbotnikSubbotnik and voskresnik (from Russian: суббо́та, IPA: [sʊˈbotə] for "Saturday" and воскресе́нье, IPA: [vəskrʲɪˈsʲenʲjɪ] for "Sunday") were days of volunteer unpaid work on weekends after the October Revolution, though the word itself is derived from Cуббо́та (Subbota for Saturday) and the common Russian suffix -ник (-nik).[1]
The tradition is continued in modern Russia and some other former Soviet Republics.[2][failed verification] Subbotniks are mostly organized for cleaning the streets of garbage, fixing public amenities, collecting recyclable material, and other community services.
The first mass subbotnik was held on April 12, 1919, at the Moscow-Sortirovochnaya railway depot of the Moscow-Kazan Railway upon the initiative of local Bolsheviks. It was stated in the Resolution of the General Council of Communists of the Subraion of the Moscow-Kazan Railway and Their Adherents that "the communists and their supporters again must spur themselves on and extract from their time off still another hour of work, i.e. they must increase their working day by an hour, add it up and on Saturday devote six hours at a stretch to physical labour, thereby producing immediately a real value. Considering that communists should not spare their health and lives for the victory of the revolution, the work is conducted without pay."[3] This subbotnik prompted Lenin to write the article The Grand Initiative [ru], where he called subbotniks "the actual beginnings of the communism".
On April 12, 1969, to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the first Subbotnik, the Soviet Union revived the concept and millions of citizens volunteered for extra work at least as late as 1971.[1]
The first all-Russian subbotnik was held on May 1, 1920, and Vladimir Lenin participated in removing building rubble in the Moscow Kremlin, an episode portrayed in a famous painting by Vladimir Krikhatsky, Lenin at the First Subbotnik, of Lenin carrying a log.
Subsequently, "communist subbotniks" and "voskresniks" became obligatory political events in the Soviet Union, with annual "Lenin's Subbotnik" being held in the vicinity of Lenin's birthday.
Subbotnik was also promoted in the 1950s in the Eastern Bloc countries and in particular in the German Democratic Republic (GDR), as the USSR sought to build up the GDR as the westernmost outpost of socialism in Europe.[citation needed]
In Czechoslovakia, a similar kind of work was known as Action Z (Akce Z), from Czech word zvelebování, "improvement", referring to the typical activities from garbage removal to housing construction. |
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Post by naukowiec on Nov 21, 2021 17:05:30 GMT 1
Ok, thanks for the information:)
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Post by Bonobo on Nov 25, 2021 22:50:21 GMT 1
What is going on and why?  |
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Post by naukowiec on Jan 4, 2022 16:31:11 GMT 1
May 1st government endorsed parade?This was Labour Day in PRL times.
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Post by Bonobo on Jan 4, 2022 16:48:38 GMT 1
Yes and yes. And still Labour Day is bank holiday today.  What about this:   |
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Post by naukowiec on Jan 9, 2022 10:03:29 GMT 1
Internment under martial law of Solidarity and opposition activists. Was this from a film/documentary called Manhunt? The detainees were imprisoned in a military centre in Jaworze and told their story over 30 years later?
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Post by Bonobo on Jan 9, 2022 18:21:40 GMT 1
Internment under martial law of Solidarity and opposition activists. Was this from a film/documentary called Manhunt? The detainees were imprisoned in a military centre in Jaworze and told their story over 30 years later? Yes, imprisonment called internment. Communist new speech wouldn`t dare to call it a prison. I am not sure which film you mean, there were a few. WHy is he showing the Victory sign?  |
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Post by naukowiec on Jan 16, 2022 21:52:42 GMT 1
WHy is he showing the Victory sign? That is Tadeusz Mazowiecki, former Solidarity prime minister. That was his sign to the chamber upon his appointment, a symbol of Poland's triumph over Communism. |
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Post by Bonobo on Jan 18, 2022 19:05:21 GMT 1
Yes, Mazowiecki! in 1989 we defeated communism - I was over the moon then. I will be again when those neobolsheviks from PiS are deafeted at last too. Now sth harder: These young people are very angry. Why? Who? What?   |
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Post by naukowiec on Feb 13, 2022 22:27:26 GMT 1
I could be very wrong here, but was this something to do with the student protest in March 1968? Two students contested the ban on Mickiewicz's play 'Forefathers'Eve' and were expelled from Warsaw University. A protest on March 8th ensued which led to pro-democracy protests in other cities. The Communist regime then used the student revolt as an excuse to unleash an anti-Semitic campaign to settle scores within a divided party split into two camps.
Might be sth else entirely, but it's my best guess.
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Post by Bonobo on Dec 28, 2022 15:33:24 GMT 1
I could be very wrong here, but was this something to do with the student protest in March 1968? Yes, March 1968 protests. Each protest and unrest were called "events" by communist propaganda, in accordance with the rules of new speech. What about these events?  |
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