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comment by briandmyers

I thought it was odd usage also, but I believe the author chose that term to emphasise that the Soviet system was in no way run by or for the workers, in spite of the socialist rhetoric. Stalin wanted a productive economy, and he got one, at a huge human cost.





kleinbl00  ·  3676 days ago  ·  link  ·  

"We pretend to work, they pretend to pay us."

- old Soviet proletariat joke