Word: shturmovshchina
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...little incentive to produce attractive, well-made goods or to improve design. If a factory retools for a new product, the lost production time may well cost its manager his bonus for overfulfilling the sacrosanct quota. As it is, at the end of every month he is limp from shturmovshchina, the frenetic, last-minute battle to beat the quota...
...lying down on the job in the first half of the month and then working like crazy (and at overtime) in the second half to make up the month's prescribed production quota. A new word was added to the Soviet work vocabulary to describe this phenomenon: shturmovshchina, i.e., storm attack. "Shturmovshchina," said Premier Bulganin, "leads to low-grade production...
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