Word: stakhanov
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...After Aleksei Stakhanov. a coal miner who became an early hero of Soviet labor by greatly overfulfilling his production quota...
...gave Russian workers the speedup back in 1935 has resurfaced. Alexei Stakhanov became Stalin's original "shock worker" by producing 102 tons of coal in a six-hour shift-eleven times the norm. Soviet officials then used the high output of dedicated "Stakhanovites" as a pretext to raise production quotas for everyone. Now 66, Stakhanov told Pravda that there was too much emphasis on production statistics, "machines, automation, percentages and tons." When it came time to praise the workers, he said, he had seen party officials giving out awards while sneaking glances at their wristwatches. "Praise should...