Beanpole

12/26/2019

_**Very bleak and somewhat compelling – a film I admired more than I liked**_ >_The basis for the Stakhanov movement was first and foremost the radical improvement in the material welfare of the workers. Life has improved, comrades. Life has become more joyous. And when life is joyous, work goes well. Hence the high rates of output. Hence the heroes and heroines of labour. That, primarily, is the root of the Stakhanov movement. If there had been a crisis in our country, if there had been unemployment – that scourge of the working class – if people in our country lived badly, drably, joyless__ly, we should have had nothing like the Stakhanov movement._ - Joseph Stalin; Speech at the First All-Union Conference of Stakhanovites (November 17, 1935) >_Nothing has contributed so much to