Stealing from work in the USSR video: kzitem.info/news/bejne/q7Bq0nhtb6CTl6g Top Soviet-era holidays video: kzitem.info/news/bejne/z4GrroucbKhhe3Y Hello, comrades! My name is Sergei. I was born in the USSR in 1971. Since 1999 I have lived in the USA. Ushanka Show channel was created to share stories as well as my own memories of everyday life in the USSR. My books about arriving in America are available at www.sputnikoff.com/shop (Russian or English versions) or on Amazon: www.amazon.com/dp/B08DJ7RNTC Please contact me at sergeisputnikoff@gmail.com if you would like to purchase a signed copy of “American Diaries” Fan Mail: Ushanka Show P.O. Box 96 Berrien Springs MI 49103, USA You can support this project with tips by clicking a "heart" under this video, or: Via Patreon here: www.patreon.com/sputnikoff Viia PAYPAL: paypal.me/ushankashow Ushanka Show merchandise: teespring.com/stores/ushanka-show-shop If you are curious to try some of the Soviet-era candy and other foodstuffs, please use the link below. www.russiantable.com/imported-russian-chocolate-mishka-kosolapy__146-14.html?tracking=5a6933a9095f9 My FB: facebook.com/sergey.sputnikoff Twitter: twitter.com/ushankashow Instagram: instagram.com/ushanka_show/ Reddit: www.reddit.com/user/Sputnikoff
@retrokid9432
Жыл бұрын
Sergei very nice video.
@UshankaShow
Жыл бұрын
Thanks!
@retrokid9432
Жыл бұрын
@@UshankaShow I have a Ukrainian music artist to tell you about, his name is Serdyuk Anatoliy. He sang songs in the 90’s but he still sings today. And he supports Ukraine and their army.
@twodeadmice3321
Жыл бұрын
Hi Mr Cheeseburger. I remember a new topic for your videos. Not sure when it started, but certainly in the 90s there was nationwide movement of the "TV water hypnotist" who would energize you bottles of water through tv broadcast. Everyone prepared gallon bottles for later healthy drinking. I think this was before people questioned if reruns or pre-recorded broadcast had same effect on the water.
@carkawalakhatulistiwa
Жыл бұрын
@@UshankaShow western countries are better because they steal resources from southern countries. even the United States put the pro-business dictator of the United States capitalism in Central America (banana company). if someone says capitalism is better (because they live in the United States which has mines and reserves of state money in the world) better they can also see about capitalism in South America , Africa and Asia . kzitem.info/news/bejne/kqSd0oJpppiLiKw
@tolik5929
Жыл бұрын
" They pretend to pay us , we pretend to work "
@yukitakaoni007
Жыл бұрын
They (boss) pretend to pay us (worker). We (worker) pretend to work. Such is daily life in Capitalism......
@tolik5929
Жыл бұрын
@@yukitakaoni007 Thats what I meant , and why after covid , workers are not returning to work .
@Comradpetito
Жыл бұрын
@@tolik5929 after stalin people still lived. After covid people are depressed
@tolik5929
Жыл бұрын
@@Comradpetito Very true
@boomerantics9586
Жыл бұрын
You said it so I don’t have to. Wait, now I’m a slacker!
@GnosticAtheist
Жыл бұрын
I used to be a slacker, but then I had a stroke. Now I am medically retired, the ultimate in slacking technology.
@mynameisnobody3931
Жыл бұрын
You must be proud
@GnosticAtheist
Жыл бұрын
@@mynameisnobody3931 Being prideful about something given by nature would be pretty silly. When Jesus walked on water he only did it because daddy gave him the power, He-man. He didn't reinvent gravity, daddy did. Same here, my divine power to be lazy is a gift from God, so its nothing to write home about.
@mynameisnobody3931
Жыл бұрын
@@GnosticAtheist your brain must be broken.
@mynameisnobody3931
Жыл бұрын
@@GnosticAtheist what your brain doesn't understand is that when you're lazy and you steal, you affect others. Even Jesus can't get you to understand that cause you live in stupid pride and laziness.
@mynameisnobody3931
Жыл бұрын
@@GnosticAtheist lazy like all other Norwegians
@bettyswunghole3310
Жыл бұрын
I love the term "active slacker"! 😆 I used to work with such a person. The bizarre thing is that if he'd put as much effort into working as he did into _avoiding_ work, he'd have been quite productive!
@carkawalakhatulistiwa
Жыл бұрын
western countries are better because they steal resources from southern countries. even the United States put the pro-business dictator of the United States capitalism in Central America (banana company). if someone says capitalism is better (because they live in the United States which has mines and reserves of state money in the world) better they can also see about capitalism in South America , Africa and Asia . kzitem.info/news/bejne/kqSd0oJpppiLiKw
@bettyswunghole3310
Жыл бұрын
@@carkawalakhatulistiwa I have *literally* no idea what your remark has to do with my original comment. Just to set you straight on a couple of points, though: I never said capitalism is "better"...I don't know what you mean by "better"...all economic systems have their faults. Capitalism has been willingly embraced by far more people throughout history than communism, however. Western countries _utilise_ resources from the Third World, and in return give financial, material and educational aid to the Third World in order to drag it out of the neolithic age...generally fruitlessly, it seems. The US has the biggest national debt of any country in the entire history of the world...I don't think you can claim they have vast reserves of money.
@luminpane3899
Жыл бұрын
I'm CURRENTLY teaming up with that kind of slacker. Loses his focus quickly due to excessive screentime on IG, interrupts lecturer's advices on final project, avoids even the smallest workload given, no drive or ambition whatsoever. His productivity peaks at clogging up toilets.
@Ukraineaissance2014
Жыл бұрын
I've met people like this at work, who put so much effort into getting 2 minutes more breaktime or hiding from cctv cameras and they try to make everybody else feel like they are owned by the boss and they think they are proper rebels, when in reality other people find it easier to just get on with their day without thinking hiding in the toilets for 15 minutes will at all improve it.
@justicar5
Жыл бұрын
@@bettyswunghole3310 nope, look at the resource deals, it is pretty much stolen at gun point, not as bad as it was during imperial times, but still bad, especially in the countries where the mining/logging/farming etc companies are multinationals and take the money straight back out again. About the only countries to avoid this are a few petro states.
@The67wheelman
Жыл бұрын
Worked in a plant with a Russian dude in the 90s you just came over and you’d find him curled up in a hiding spot napping all the time. Was completely normal and acceptable and couldn’t understand why the boss was pissy about his “breaks”😂
@cowgirl9014
Жыл бұрын
I wish we could publicly shame some of the slackers at my work, the work is very demanding and coworkers wind up doing her job while she hides and plays on her phone. Her mother works in management so she will never get fired. When she is confronted she literally cries and calls her mom. I dread working with her.
@ducemano
Жыл бұрын
No nepotism like that in stalin russia. He would not even cut a deal for his son when he was captured in the war.
@ericdpeerik3928
Жыл бұрын
In my young career I had a job exactly like that, with some slapper who worked for daddy. She went out of her way to blame me for some mistake (which was huge, and she added that I would get fired over it), which turned out was her mistake. I still got fired over it, because I smiled when I found out it wasn't my mistake. Not long after that her father got fired for lackigg performance. Guess who went not long after that 😂 I'm cool! I took my work ethics and lack of random hostility elsewhere.
@joriankell1983
Жыл бұрын
Just do it anyway. Why does everyone have so much they want to do, but don't because someone didn't tell them they could?
@joriankell1983
Жыл бұрын
@@ducemano not true. Not even close. Do you even know who the Bolsheviks were?
@hodgepodgetheexperimental6137
Жыл бұрын
The irony of watching this vid during my scheduled work shift at a liquor store.
@jamespn
10 ай бұрын
Being in civil service in the U.S. we had a work group who on any given week couldn’t work a normal 40 hour work week without taking paid leave, incredible.
@artyomarty391
Жыл бұрын
I lived post USSR but I think the bigger problem was not "skipping" work, but rather people going to work and just not working. Like, some people would work, while others just wouldnt, so you essentially had 20% of people doing the work for everyone. I was always in this 20% because for me not doing something is actually an agony, but this other 80% actually feels comfortable watching others work while not doing anything themselves. But I believe this is a problem in many countries. It could be person-specific rather than economy type-specific
@damienbunting873
Жыл бұрын
Yeah I'm a 30yr old guy in the bay area California who's worked factory/warehouse jobs my whole life and I 100% relate you. Even if I hated my job it'd drive me crazy to just sit there and do nothing and time would tick SO SLOWLY lol I also couldn't get how the other guys could just sit and watch other people break there back smh.
@joriankell1983
Жыл бұрын
It's race specific in America.
@joriankell1983
Жыл бұрын
@brainbah how is it every living organism, even pre modern humans, are capable of divergent evolution, but Modern humans are all one race? No, we are the same genus, not the same species. Dogs, wolves, and Coyotes all belong to the genus Canis, they can even interbreed. But they are not the same species. Just LOOK at people. LOOK! We are not all the same! It's not about hate, it's about the truth in front of our eyes.
@artyomarty391
Жыл бұрын
@brainbah You are looking at the world the way you want it to be, while Jorian Kell is looking at the world the way it is Yes, we all "should" be the same, but we're not. Differences in question are probably not so much genetical, but rather cultural-environmental. Its the nurture, rather than the nature In regards to certain races not wanting to work in US, this is very true. As an immigrant, I can attest that we dislike working alongside a certain race in US, because we have to do work for them. Countless Russians and Ukranians have told me "I used to love XXXXX people until I came to US and worked with them" This is not racism. This is just, if given a choice, myself and probably hald of america would pick to work with someone not from this specific race. This is just being rational Ofcourse, despite this, we all understand that the main determining factor of someone not working vs working is the person, not the race. Its just that statistically speaking, one race in US just doesnt seem to want to work and this problem is probably most pronounced on minimum wage types of jobs (where motivated immigrants coincide with the unmotivated)
@oscarosullivan4513
Жыл бұрын
It apparently was a problem in the UK especially the car industry
@MrSpirit99
Жыл бұрын
I am from east Germany. As far as I can tell everything is quite consistent with my experiences. Not everything is the same obviously but the basic problems where the same everywhere in the eastern block. with different national flavors of course.
@ultimatecorgi3392
Жыл бұрын
In America we'd just say that truant kids "ditched" or were "ditching." In high school, most students had an informal tradition called Senior Skip Day, where they would just all be truant. Many teachers will do things like schedule exams worth 41% of your grade on that day to keep you from skipping. There also was a tradition at my school: kids would rip the names off their homework (so it couldn't be traced back to them) and throw it in the hallway on the last day of school. If I had known how useless my college degree would be, maybe I would have just participated in skipping and become a welder.
@worldcomicsreview354
Жыл бұрын
I remember reading / hearing an awesome greentext story about these kids in a school who would join different group projects and do nothing, getting the credit for the rest of the group's work. The teacher assembled the groups on ditch day (which all those kids inevitably participated in), so they had to work together. Inevitably the parents got dragged in to complain about how the teacher was "failing" their little angel by "forcing them" into the bad group. The teacher's reply was to simply show the group's collective feeble scribbles.
@nsiwp-kovn7486
Жыл бұрын
@@worldcomicsreview354 you watch r/slash too? Nice
@jacobcarolan1172
Жыл бұрын
I became a welder. Fun job
@bobthebuilder1360
Жыл бұрын
Lol i went to Highschool in 2017 to 2020 and we watched movies on that day and threw parties. Only the lame teachers made you work the whole class during senior skip day . then we wpuld brag about the cool stuff to like 75% of the missing class mates. One class we even went outside n just played football the whole time. Think that was gym
@johndowe7003
Жыл бұрын
Learn weld, get certified, come to NM. 150$ an hour 🦾
@jddyea5527
Жыл бұрын
I was born in a Warsaw Pact country. My mother told me that when someone would call off work, an individual from the company would come by the apartment " to see if everything was okay".
@60gator
Жыл бұрын
I worked for a boss who'd send one of his men through any unlocked windows to come git you!Lord the funny stuff I saw working for some of these characters over a lifetime.
@shaunw9270
Жыл бұрын
In Britain growing up, Truant was a kid who skips school regularly . I can't remember the word Slacker as a kid but my Dad used to talk about lazy colleagues who continually phoned in sick or giving bogus excuses not to work properly, he called this "Swinging the lead" 😊
@lordsummerisle87
Жыл бұрын
I haven't heard that one in a long time, but I think "swinging the lead" comes from ships/boats. Before electronic depth finders the depth was measured with a lead weight on a thin rope. The leadsman would stand at the side of the boat, swing the weight ahead ahead and let it sink to the seabed. As the boat came vertically above the weight the leadsman measured the depth by the knots along the line. Then he would haul it up and swing it ahead again. The job was surprisingly laborious so when slacking off the leadsman would just swing the lead into the water then pull it up again a couple of feet rather than multiple fathoms. I suppose he would guess/estimate the depth. Put his shipmates at risk because sounding was a way of determining your position and avoiding running aground.
@carkawalakhatulistiwa
Жыл бұрын
western countries are better because they steal resources from southern countries. even the United States put the pro-business dictator of the United States capitalism in Central America (banana company). if someone says capitalism is better (because they live in the United States which has mines and reserves of state money in the world) better they can also see about capitalism in South America , Africa and Asia . kzitem.info/news/bejne/kqSd0oJpppiLiKw
@carkawalakhatulistiwa
Жыл бұрын
From the 1st century AD until the beginning of British colonization of India in the 17th century, India's GDP was between about 25 and 35% of the world's total, which fell to 2% at India's Independence in 1947. At the same time, England's share of the world economy increased from 2.9% in 1700 to 9% in 1870 alone, due to the theft of the wealth of the south country. and 2028 finally after 300 years of humiliation china the economy will surpass the united states
@charliepearce8767
Жыл бұрын
@@carkawalakhatulistiwa 2028 ? Don't get counting year chickens before the eggs are hatched...anything can happen between now and then..
@lordsummerisle87
Жыл бұрын
@@carkawalakhatulistiwa Congratulations on copying and pasting from Wikipedia! Perhaps you failed to notice from the same article that GDP per head of population in India largely remained static between AD1 and AD1947. Other sources show that continuing well into the 1960s. That's roughly the inherent limit that subsistence farming has had since the neolithic -- each adult grows slightly more food than is needed to sustain one adult. China was in a similar economic situation but accelerated faster. The US hit their stride in the 1800s and Russia has been doing a sort of stumbling jog since the late Tsarist period. While there was a certain amount of wealth extraction during the EIC and Raj periods, India's percentage of world GDP fell largely because everyone else raced ahead. Disparities were evident even before John Company started eyeing up the Mughal Empire. China's large slice of world GDP today only exists because primarily of a huge population, crap environmental protections, industrial espionage as a national sport, and crushing near slavery of the general population for the benefit of the state and a small population of bosses. China's GDP per capita is still around 25% that of the US (and double that of India).
@Soundbrigade
Жыл бұрын
Reading a great book from Anya von Bremzen - Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking: A Memoir of Food and Longing. There she describes how a person is on a company’s paylist, but isn’t working. When he gets his salary he hands most of it over to the director, keeping a small sum for himself. We had a cousin doing the same, not working but her workers passport was lying at an employer, guaranteeing she got her pension one day.
@AmericanRomanEmpire
Жыл бұрын
In the US we have many terms for such words - slacker, skater, smoker, ghosting, bush hiding, napper, chilling, dodging, runner, couch surfing, talker, free basing, favoritism, manager’s pets and many more lol
@minihunt4093
Жыл бұрын
This is actually a huge problem in America too. I have ADHD, doing nothing drives me insane, but many coworkers are cool doing bare minimum. Which I agree they should and watching others work and only looking busy when boss comes around. Haha the problem is if that person doesn't like the world they are doing they won't want to do it.
@iam8401
Жыл бұрын
No sense of ownership...
@minihunt4093
Жыл бұрын
@@iam8401 exactly. No incentive to work harder. It is similar to a slave worker harder for his master. His only incentive is to do the bare minimum not to get in trouble.
@pretzelstick320
Жыл бұрын
If there are legitimate reasons(higher pay, commission, opportunity for advancement, ownership) to work harder, people will work harder. The problem is absence of these things. I’ve had many jobs where advancement was not based on actual productivity but based on repport with bosses, likability, or worse reasons still, such as nepotism or race/gender.
@iam8401
Жыл бұрын
@@pretzelstick320 Trade secrets, cockroach race for profit at any cost, the winner team takes it all principle encourages everyone to fight for every piece of food like a hungry scavenger, atrophies all the feelings that made people homo sapien, and thus there is a constant negative selection in society when thieves, murderers, scammers, hypocrites, sofisticated neocons gradually become the elite of it. Thanks to the electoral system they created in Ancient Rome, where the main role is played by money and criminal kinship and not the voices of the people, these dregs of society quickly get into Congresses, Parliaments, Oval Offices and, having access to the printing press and taxes, change laws for themselves. At the end, thieves are best profit generated units, as they have highest ROE. Add to this insult that they control police and army and these reasons alone are enough to have Wack A Mole wars around us destroying society from within.
@URProductions
Жыл бұрын
Imagine thinking anti-communist was a bad thing.
@flioink
Жыл бұрын
Nothing says "Socialist Paradise" like: "Get Back To Work Slacker!" In the "Decadent West" people were at least paid and able to quit.
@HeathenDance
Жыл бұрын
It was a different society. With a completely different concept. Hostile to individualism. For good and bad. If you live alone, you are also free do eat junk food and drink beer every day, and smoke. If you are married, and have a family, the pressure to behave is always there. I think it's a correct analogy. In the USA, realities like organized crime, racism, homeless people, disturbing ratings of illiteracy, commercials trying to sell unhealthy food, etc, were seen as "normal." In the USSR, they were seen as "family problems." which need to be fixed at all costs. I'm not saying the Soviet System was better. I'm just trying to analyze it fairly. I personally prefer the American Way, being an individualist and creative independent worker myself. By the way, many countries in Western Europe, since the 1950's, were not "purely" capitalist. And had/have LOTS of socialist aspects in their regimes. There are countries in the European Union, in which over 50 % of its citizens depend on the State. Either because they work for it, or receive support from it.
@worldcomicsreview354
Жыл бұрын
@@HeathenDance France seems to have an insanely bloated state, anybody who so much as sweeps the roads gets a gauranteed high salary and pension. I mean, it's good for the workers but it's also got to some from somewhere.
@HeathenDance
Жыл бұрын
@@worldcomicsreview354 Indeed. The Social Services offer a lot of protection and financial support. I know people in Germany and in Sweden who only work 3 days a week, and they have pretty good lives. And some people simply don't do anything. They live on social welfare, in apartments provided by the State. Some ethnic minorities, for example.
@aaronanderson9810
Жыл бұрын
Slacker was also an old World War 1 term in America for people who didn't participate in the war effort.
@Unknown17
Жыл бұрын
The best part of this whole video is when you made the sound of the horse kicking the slacker off the cart! Good horse sound!
@UshankaShow
Жыл бұрын
Thanks 👍
@davidmurphy6802
Жыл бұрын
I love the hate you put at the beginning. The rants make me smile EVERY time!!
@arthurh5707
Жыл бұрын
Yeah, feel bad about it too. It's just misplaced (for lack of a better term) patriotism.
@ideologybot4592
Жыл бұрын
@@arthurh5707 a better term would be something like 'ideological enthusiasm'.
@kevinconjelko1309
Жыл бұрын
The 2 different dates are from when the Eastern Orthodox Church split from the Catholic Church. We use the old calendar our Easter is always a week later as well.
@jonathanwilliams1065
Жыл бұрын
The dates actually remained the same until pope Gregory made a new calendar to be more accurate
@kitkat47chrysalis95
Жыл бұрын
honestly if your workers are sometimes skipping work and drinking, and all you do is complain about it, this seems like a massive step up from serfdom
@101trus
Жыл бұрын
Serfs only worked half the year
@Prairielander
Жыл бұрын
The Soviet model was just a nation wide prison. I work in a prison in Canada. Everyone is provided with food, shelter, clothing, education, and healthcare. They have jobs they work at around the prison like vegetable gardens, weeding, cooking, cleaning, metal and wood shops, and etc. They do get some extras to work but not a lot. There is no incentive to do better because your standard of living will be the same and your job will be there tomorrow. So they don't work hard. A few come in and try to, but they soon realize it is pointless. If working harder does make your life better for yourself or your family then you won't. The other option is to make people work by force as many states have done so. You can withhold food to those unproductive. Those who outright refuse to work you can beat them or isolate them. Lastly you can start killing them.
@ZeroRed78
Жыл бұрын
Do you let the prisoners freely out of their jail to visit others and spend time together? Go out on dates with other prisoners? Choose their entertainment? I could keep going for a paragraph there. Seems quite a bit different than a prison to me. And I'd gladly live under a system where people are less incentivized to work harder but everyone gets a decent life than our sick system where there's more incentive, but millions that can't find decent work and millions more that eventually just get terminated because their prior hard work led to them making too much more than their peers.
@doncarlodivargas5497
Жыл бұрын
I must say, also where I have been working, in a capitalistic country and in private sector, we have at times had conflict between smokers and non-smokers for example, nonsmokers angry at the ones smoking and their breakes, some have demanded extra vacation for nonsmokers for example
@Stone8age
Жыл бұрын
I remember people taking Bolnichnyi lists (Sick leave) for a week to have a big ol' zapoi (heavy drinking for a prolonged period of time). Public shaming was ineffective as most people at the plant were enthusiastic drinkers themselves, and "activists" who engaged in snitching and sobriety campaigns were almost universally despised.
@kenetickups6146
Жыл бұрын
That's what centuries of state encouraged addiction does to your culture
@fischX
Жыл бұрын
@@kenetickups6146 it had its good sides, family meeting at the office, lots of vaccination and socialising - nothing got done until the naton collapsed but actually living in the USSR in 1970-1990 wasn't a bad experience over all it was chill af.
@grundgesetzart.1463
Жыл бұрын
in the GDR they would come and check on you if you took sick leave. It was absolutely not common to stay away from work for any other reason than real, serious illness. If they saw you outside, and even worse, drinking and chilling, you would get some extra punitive work, such as helping in a brick factory. They had good work morals. About the USSR, I think it depended on what kind of job you had. Whether you had the possibility for "breaks" or not.
@kenetickups6146
Жыл бұрын
@@grundgesetzart.1463 Sounds about accurate for that dystopian hellhole
@brinjoness3386
Жыл бұрын
Classic, 😂😂
@crimony3054
Жыл бұрын
8:46 "slacker will lose his bonus"... they financially incentivized production!
@anasoares8886
Жыл бұрын
i mean, that's a big incentive for production, if u don't work u don't eat.
@ideologybot4592
Жыл бұрын
Sure they did, for almost all Soviet history they did, you just couldn't buy anything with the money you were paid.
@anasoares8886
Жыл бұрын
@@ideologybot4592 "anything". what? food? u could buy cheaply, clothes? it had a small number of clothes and was a little difficult to get some, but it was accessible, other goods? same thing with the clothes, like, I prefer having enough money to buy real food and not fucking starve or die when I get sick than to get money to buy a playstation
@michaelpelzek8882
Жыл бұрын
@@anasoares8886 calm down
@Myndir
Жыл бұрын
You would be at more risk of starving in the USSR than the USA. The USSR had multiple famines and a lot of people died.
@paulomoura6401
Жыл бұрын
Great idea to have a "slacker of the month" program at the state company where I work.
@joriankell1983
Жыл бұрын
That would not last long. The slackers will complain of racism. Well, that's how it would work in America
@Zane-It
Жыл бұрын
This channel is an amazing source of information on the Soviet Union.
@rw-xf4cb
Жыл бұрын
I always thought Christmas in January was Orthodox dates
@YaelSharon3410
Ай бұрын
The active slackers are still operating in full force nowadays... Good video. I really enjoyed the old cartoon at the end.
@RogerThat787
Жыл бұрын
Comrade hope your Thanksgiving was all good. Thanks for posting another banger of a video. We all appreciate it.
@UshankaShow
Жыл бұрын
Same to you!
@HitachiTRQ-225
Жыл бұрын
When people call you commie propaganda and anti communist at the same time, you’re just telling it how it is
@OP-fd4lh
Жыл бұрын
Good work. Thanks for sharing your experiences with us. I have worked with a few slackers in my life. One of them was constantly getting certified on new equipment and systems but never actually worked. The employer liked that he got the certifications for the company so the rest of us just had to pull his workload.
@UshankaShow
Жыл бұрын
Thank you for your support! Getting constantly certified sounds like working smarter, not harder )))
@winggullseagull1230
Жыл бұрын
As an American I find the Soviet Union & communism fascinating. Thanks for all your videos giving us an insight as to what it was like to live in the Soviet Union. Yesterday I watched a Soviet Sci -Fi movie from 1936 "Cosmic Journey" & I was impressed it was awesome. I heard all the US propaganda but what was it really like to live in the Soviet Union under Lenin & Stalin ?? Did the Russian people see them as great leaders ??
@seanledden4397
Жыл бұрын
Wow - Soviet park benches were very strict!
@SebastianDingleswitch
Жыл бұрын
And the anti-homeless architecture in america modern day isn't?
@jordanhicks5131
Жыл бұрын
@@SebastianDingleswitch whataboutism This isnt about the USA, this is about the Soviet Union.
@lwfozzy6925
Жыл бұрын
In Canada we call slackers public servants .
@monsignorerasmus.6441
Жыл бұрын
I heard this once. An interviewer asked a Soviet civil servant during the Brezhnev regime how they do their jobs during the Soviet financial crisis? The person answered... "We pretend to work, they pretend to pay us. "
@stevefrayne
Жыл бұрын
Awesome cartoon. Thanks for showing twice. I watched both times and it was an interesting experience the second time. Which makes me wonder, where would they have seen this in 1929? As public service announcements in movie theaters? Surely they wouldn’t have a projector at a factory? This makes me also want to know more about the movie-going experience in the Soviet Union at all times but especially early on. I’ve seen several Soviet films and would love to know anything you can share about the movie-going experience more so than the films themselves. Thank you for your wonderful channel.
@UshankaShow
Жыл бұрын
My guess those were the news reels shown in movie theaters, workers clubs, colleges, etc Going to movies in the USSR: kzitem.info/news/bejne/0n2Dx2ywsJ6abKg
@THEGIPPER34
Жыл бұрын
My grandmother was from the US but a very rural poor area in the Appalachian mountains. In the 1930s her 1 room school was shown a movie by a man with a traveling projector about smoking being harmful. It was the first movie she saw a movie and she didn't have electric or running water but they still had someone show up with that... also it amazed me that pre-ww2 there was an anti smoking movement for kids even in places where she said they'd see a car about 1 time every few months unless they walked a day or two into the small local town. I'd say they had traveling campaigns in the USSR going to factories and collective farms too with these films.
@HorsesArePeople2
Жыл бұрын
This would be especially fitting for the cinema, as when people didn't show up for work, often they would go to parks or cinemas during the day. Eventually they would have plain clothes police or KGB visit these places and catch people who were slackin off
@jamespn
10 ай бұрын
We had co workers who were very resourceful by carefully researching all work place rules and they were also very adept in breaking every rule.
@mattheweburns
Жыл бұрын
I haven’t seen your videos in months, so glad you are OK! KZitem stopped showing me your videos even though I’ve been subscribed for a long time
@moretimeneeded56
3 ай бұрын
Slacker sounds appropriate. Passive slacker could also be called a Stivers. To sneak off for a smoke you would be skiving.
@moretimeneeded56
3 ай бұрын
0:52 truant was a word used in the 1960s in the UK. I don’t know if it is still in common usage. If you skipped school, unauthorised absence, would be said to be playing truant. Truant is also a noun applied to the pupil playing truant. I’ve never heard it used regarding workers.
@DartzIRL
Жыл бұрын
Our new replacement for Itchy and Scratchy, Eastern Europes favourite cat and mouse team, "Worker And Parasite"
@joanhuffman2166
Жыл бұрын
Slaves resist, either active rebellion or passive. Passive resistance includes showing up late, leaving early, taking breaks all the time, being stupid on purpose, doing work badly, damaging equipment, misunderstanding instructions, and so many other ways. Slave labor is expensive.
@joanhuffman2166
Жыл бұрын
@AnnaLuchia all humans need positive reinforcement. All stick and no carrot is characteristic of slavery.
@joanhuffman2166
Жыл бұрын
@AnnaLuchia historically slave owners have often set in place positive incentives to get more work or better work from the slaves. If you read Frederick Douglass's autobiography, he describes how, in exchange for a set amount of money each week, he was given a great deal of freedom. He would only see his master once a week to give him the money. His days and nights were his own. He rented the room he stayed at. He fed himself. He used that freedom to escape.
@joanhuffman2166
Жыл бұрын
@AnnaLuchia eh, the records of the times, such as Frederick Douglass's book My Bondage and My Freedom, Frederick Olmstead Law's Cotton Kingdom record a lot of cruelty. That is to be expected of any system with a foundation of coercion. That's what slavery is a system built on a foundation of coercion. Edward Ball, in his book Slaves in the Famiy, writes that his ancestors kept a lot of receipts from the city of Charleston for sending slaves to a house of correction. Whips and mandatory treadmills.
@joanhuffman2166
Жыл бұрын
@@AnnaLuchia we find references to slaves in the oldest writing. We find evidence of slavery in all societies.
@Nothing-fp7jg
Жыл бұрын
I also read a book written by an american diplomat's wife. He was posted to Moscow in the 1960s. She wrote about these senior women that seemed to be present everywhere in Moscow. These women were called Babushki and they were not shy about calling you out for any sort of social infraction (for example if a babushki saw a young woman sitting unlady like, she'd scream out 'girl, what do you think you are doing? You don't sit that way!). The author also mentioned that if someone died outside, it would take days for the corpse to be removed. Did you notice similar things when going up in the Ukraine?
@kenetickups6146
Жыл бұрын
That first part sounds exactly like the us at the time as well
@Comradpetito
Жыл бұрын
Babushkis❤️❤️
@johngorentz6409
Жыл бұрын
In my mind I was watching the film, Afonya, while you told about this. Afonya didn't have all the historical details that you gave us, though.
@davidmajer3652
Жыл бұрын
Very interesting video. you always have topics that I would never thought existed.
@UshankaShow
Жыл бұрын
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed!
@jeffsnider3588
Жыл бұрын
I like this new word, прогульщик and блин are both very useful! 😀
@Nothing-fp7jg
Жыл бұрын
I love this channel. I am from Canada but I have always been interested in daily life in the Soviet Union. It is so hard to find source material on it that is pulled together and organized. Have your read the book 'Daily Life in the Soviet Union' by Katherine B. Eaton? Another book I really like is 'The Whisperers' by Orlando Figes.
@joriankell1983
Жыл бұрын
I always wanted to read 200 years together by Dostoyevsky
@nicolasuribestanko
Жыл бұрын
12:01 From my imperfect recollection of the Ukrainian spoken by my grandparents (when I visited them on their farm in Canada some 65 years ago), that word (hulayu) means "I am dancing". Maybe they spoke Polish, not Ukrainian? (They were from the Lviv region.)
@UshankaShow
Жыл бұрын
There are many ways "gulyayu" could be translated, depending on the situation. To celebrate, to play outside, to have a good time, to do nothing, etc.
@aw2584
Жыл бұрын
"Hulać" means "to party, have fun" in Polish although it's not used often. So "hulamy" means "were having fun", "hulacie" means "you're having fun" etc. As for Lviv region it really depends on if you mean the actual city of Lviv or the region as in countryside. Old Commonwealth territory before Stalin's "new order" was usually split into Polish and Jewish cities and Ukrainian, Belarusian, Lithuanian countryside.
@nicolasuribestanko
Жыл бұрын
@@aw2584 Thank you, AW! This is very interesting. My grandparents left their native Terebovlia (Trembowla) near Lviv in 1896. They were among the first Ukrainian settlers to Canada. As a small child I learned some Ukrainian. But then, when I visited Kiev with my family in 1966, my Ukraininan -speaking mother wasn't able to communicate with the locals! I myself had never heard of "sobaka" for dog, "buit laska" for greetings, nor many other common words, I always said "proshu" for please. So the question is... what language did my grandparents and mother speak?????
@ClergetMusic
Жыл бұрын
It would be Ukrainian. Polish verbs do not have a “u” ending conjugation.
@ronblack7870
Жыл бұрын
hulayu is ukrainian. and does mean dancing but also can mean being out of control
@joshdenton611
Жыл бұрын
that is interesting. I would have thought that such behavior would have been impossible under that system. I'm curious how many people couldn't find work in USSR. My whole life i've been barred from "real jobs" because of something my family did in the 1970's. I'm curious if families were starved out if they were "out of favor" in Soviet times or if they were given jobs just like everyone else. It seems to me that in USSR all people were given an ability to work a real job. It is something that really interests me.🤔
@UshankaShow
Жыл бұрын
What is your definition of a "real job"? Someone still has to sweep the streets, haul trash and artificially inseminate the cows.
@Cyberspine
Жыл бұрын
The Soviet system aimed for 100% employment, and being unemployed was against the law. The government would assign you a job if you didn't find one yourself; most of the time the workers were free to look for a job at any workplace that would hire them. The incentives of the system were set up so that factory managers wanted to maximize their pool of available workers to ensure meeting the five-year plan, since the factory wasn't responsible for being profitable and got money from the government to pay the workers' wages. The result was that the factory would build a 'reserve' of employees that didn't have much meaningful work to do, except during crunch periods to meet plan goals.
@RJLbwb
Жыл бұрын
Another thing 100% employment, that means a lot of bad bosses who don't know how to motivate their staff or just not interested. Just consider; is the slacker slacking because they are lazy which the Soviets were assuming, or is there a more serious issue like the worker is suffering from chronic depression? If it's depression, public shaming is just going to make the situation worse.
@RogerThat787
Жыл бұрын
I think he means any job that would require a background check. He may have some sort of record. But this is a just a complete guess.
@UshankaShow
Жыл бұрын
@@RogerThat787 Every Soviet worker had mandatory трудовая книжка "work book"
@davidyoung
8 ай бұрын
You could definitely translate прогульщик as 'skiver'. It covers lateness, laziness and not turning up.
@GeorgeLiquor
Жыл бұрын
There was no incentive to work harder
@Matzieu1
Жыл бұрын
Being called an anti-communist isn’t really an insult.
@dameanvil
9 ай бұрын
01:11 📜 Slackers were a persistent issue in the Soviet Union from its early days to the late '80s, dividing into active and passive categories. 03:46 🗓 Christmas was moved from December 25th to January 7th in the Soviet Union to break away from Western traditions, although religious holidays stayed on the old days. 06:54 ⚖ Not showing up for work or being late in the USSR could lead to prison time between two to six months, a law in effect until April 1956. 08:16 🚫 Penalties for slackers included losing bonuses, vacation time shifted to less desirable seasons, losing travel vouchers, and the waiting list for apartments-a significant punishment in a housing-scarce society. 10:26 📋 Public shaming through printed forms and workplace discussions was used to shame and address instances of slacking in the Soviet Union. 11:12 🎥 A 1929 Ukrainian cartoon depicted the importance of socialist competition and adherence to the Five-Year Plan, addressing issues like workers being drunk or not showing up for work.
@PearComputingDevices
Жыл бұрын
In America we got slackers too. The state basically pays them not to work and punishes productive people. I bet if we didn't have such a punitive state more people would be working. Especially if the state didn't pay them not to. I think we call this incentives and human nature. If you you don't have to work and you can still get by, sometimes better than people who do work long hours, why bother? Yet many would call me cold for pointing this out. Ever go to the ER with employer insurance? You know the stuff hard working people got? It's very expensive. Your a slacker and got medicaid? Wow, you'll never see a bill. That's why upwards of 70% of our patients had some kind of state sponsored health insurance. Anyone else with the expensive stuff thinks twice about going to an ER over a cough... again, why work hard when you can get it for "free"?
@animalntelligence3170
Жыл бұрын
I read that in soviet factories people would find a place to fall asleep with a bottle vodka at work, like under a machine. The USA had similar problems with alcohol probably until, ironically, the advent of the 40-hour work week. The irony was, in an attempt to get more work out of people by having 6 day weeks with 10 hour days or something, workers were driven to drink to tolerate this. This does not mean that reducing hours stopped what probably was a very ingrained drinking culture overnight but eventually I am sure some people, now with free time with their families realized firstly that they had less desire to drink and secondly, boy, were they drinking a lot. Someone much older than me said something about his own father who was a working class man born probably in the late 1800s or early 1900s -- he said that his father and his co-workers had no thoughts of, for example, exercise and recreation or reading books -- their lives consisted of work and then drinking (not to mention the drinking at work). Of course this was a crazily bad lifestyle, bad for everyone, including factory owners and the wives and children of these workers. I would imagine that drunkenness contributed to accidents, fighting (which was tolerated with the, settle this outside after work, still happens in some jobs -- I witnessed two bus boys fighting with the full knowledge of management -- undocumented workers live different lives than most of us) and in general loss of productivity. Bottom line, people can only productively work so many hours per week and, hint, it sure is not 60 especially when you take into account time spent going to and from work which is not part of the 60 hours. A long commute can destroy you,. I believe even 40 hours is too many and you know nobody just goes to their desk and starts working, focused on the screen for 8 hours -- they find all sorts of other things to do, coffee, chatting, etc. Maybe actual time spent typing (if you have that kind of job -- I think jobs like fast food really require 8 hours, sometimes on your feet all day, of actual manual labor, a job for the very young I think.) is literally 4 hours or so per day.
@WraithChornobyl
Жыл бұрын
40 Hours is tolerable for me with a 4 day work week. I will never go back to a 5 day work week.
@joebob293
Жыл бұрын
Wait till you find out how much paramedics work in the US. In my county, the minimum average across a month is 60hrs per week. 48 hours one week, 72 the next. But, this assumes a full roster, with nobody sick, injured, nearing or after childbirth, or on vacation (which they have to cover themselves). In actual practice, 80hrs is the norm in good times, and 100hrs a week in shortages. I personally went over 120hrs in a week once per year over Christmas 4 years in a row. Drinking problems are very common off duty.
@AppleUploader
Жыл бұрын
@@joebob293there’s no way you put in 120 hrs in a week. Fucking quit
@BullsDeepHook
6 ай бұрын
4:50 , I believe the main reason for the December 25th / 7th January Christmas slacker poster. Is that Catholics use the Gregorian calendar (protestants also) so Christmas falls on dec 25, while the orthodox church still uses the Julian calendar, so orthodox Christmas falls on Jan 7th. Since there was the 3 main Christian denominations in different areas of the USSR, they needed to specify both dates on the poster because slackers of different denominations would celebrate Christmas on one of those dates, depending on which branch they belong too. Please correct me in the comments if I'm mistaken.
@mrkiplingreallywasanexceed8311
10 ай бұрын
Love this Sergei! Your friend who reads the posts by Karens is very funny! I am sure you know this phrase in English but when someone is completely unaffected by insults we say "it's like water off a duck's back" - that's you!😂 Your publicist at the end is absolutely right - your tales are usually short and simple - but told so engagingly. I am sure you are a very good electrical engineer - but I think you missed your vocation! Anyway I still have PLENTY of material to get through but I am getting there slowly!🙂😎❤️
@teledoink
Жыл бұрын
“Lying flat” is the term I like, from China 😂
@jarrettplonka707
Жыл бұрын
Thank you so much for this video. I have really enjoyed all your videos, and the perspective you give is unlike anything else out there. Many thanks from Canada!
@robertjohnson5838
Жыл бұрын
0:36 Wow, I though "men" like Juan Zapata were extinct, like Zinjanthropus or Australeopithecus
@WorivpuqloDMogh
Жыл бұрын
Used to be like this but thats because i hated my job at the time. I did always show up on time though. Just hated the job. Now i do something i love and i am according to my boss the most valuable worker
@mattt198654321
Жыл бұрын
Thanks for the horse noises at 12:40. Made me laugh pretty good :D
@randygunn9499
Жыл бұрын
I wouldn't call them slackers on Christmas or even the day after! That's life! lol
@Pootycat8359
Жыл бұрын
Here's a joke I read, from the old Soviet days: "WE pretend to work, and THEY pretend to pay us."
@UshankaShow
Жыл бұрын
Nyet! Its the other way around! They pretend to pay us good money so we pretend like we do a good work
@anthonymorandi9005
Жыл бұрын
Younger people in the US today. “Hehe I don’t wanna work today”
@losebjughashvili8465
Жыл бұрын
Kind of like the “active slacker” workforce today in America after they learned it was more profitable NOT to work and get the free benefits? No car, no insurance, stay home screw and smoke thunderfuck all day. And get paid for it.
@cdrom1070
Жыл бұрын
some places will explode if too many people start working. Take it easy. You are in it for the long haul.
@UshankaShow
Жыл бұрын
Showing up at work doesn't always mean working 😊
@cdrom1070
Жыл бұрын
@@UshankaShow sometimes excessive production of documents and stuff just makes people go crazy. Especially in multinational companies where there is a mega isolated top down command structure. Documents going between building can result in people being fired etc, some day the entire sub-organization is best forgotten about, which means no reports/papers/etc, otherwise someone in a bad mood with power can take notice. Sometimes they just want a target for a cost reduction. It can lead to people fixating on the source of the last received information.
@ryanreedgibson
Жыл бұрын
Great video comrade!
@UshankaShow
Жыл бұрын
Thanks!
@stretch654
Жыл бұрын
"bludger" - an alternative often used in Australia.
@robinwells8879
Жыл бұрын
In the UK we had Andy Cap cartoons in the newspapers and Rab C Nesbit later in the century!
@JohnCollins
Жыл бұрын
In school it was called truancy and "wagging it". At work, here in the north of england we call it "ducking".
@Ostsol
Жыл бұрын
I usually hear "truant" only in references to students skipping school. Some places in the US employ "truancy officers," who have the power to return kids to school if found out and about.
@christossymA3A2
Жыл бұрын
I hope the juan patata bloke with the comment in the beginning gets the medical help he desperately apperars to be in need of
@NoPantsBaby
Жыл бұрын
When input =/= output you get slackers.
@devnull711
Жыл бұрын
Tankies are the absolute worst, nice video.
@myrddrral
6 ай бұрын
"Malingerer" comes to mind. In the USSR, working hard and being dedicated got you nowhere. You had exactly the same life as a dedicated malingerer, so why really work? People are driven by incentives, and communism eliminates them.
@wes_m
11 ай бұрын
In Canada, we call these slackers, “dog fuckers”. If someone isn’t doing their job, or they’re just slow and lazy, we say, “that guy is screwin’ the pooch, big time!”
@yankinwaoz
Жыл бұрын
Ever heard of the saying “We pretend to work because you pretend to pay us.”
@jephrokimbo9050
Жыл бұрын
yes. it was explained to me how the communist soviet EMPIRE worked by a friend of mine who lived through it. once the people realized that they were being CONNED by the communist governmental aparatchiks who were in CHARGE the attitude became one of why work when all we get is PRAVDA COLESLAW. shredded newspapers full of slogans and mixed with HORSE GLUE to make it stick together. thus the COMMUNIST SLAVES (ie workers) PRETENED to work because the government PRETENDED to pay them. it is a PRIMARY reason why Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Ukraine, Czeck Republic, Slovak Republic, Romania and Bulgaria do NOT want to become a part of russia again. the russian communist bastards set up a SLAVE EMPIRE in eastern europe in which ONLY the party "elite" benefited.
@alexander1112000
Жыл бұрын
Hey Sergei, I have a question for you: what would happen to people who were chronically late/absent? What was the point at which a person might actually lose their employment? Or was there a point where that would happen?
@UshankaShow
Жыл бұрын
You will become "invalid", get a special document and receive a small pension.
@alexander1112000
Жыл бұрын
@@UshankaShow interesting. I suppose that would be one way of maintaining the “100% employment” number if the state designated them as invalids. Thank you!
@jasonsummit1885
Жыл бұрын
So the staff at Twitter would have been eliminated long ago with their work ethic or lack thereof, if America were the SU.
@Jihadar76
Жыл бұрын
Slacker? That's mr Strickland favourite word!
@sebastianlightcap2764
Жыл бұрын
Why is it that when a Starbucks employee gets minimum wage for doing a shitty job you people yell “EWW CAPITALISM” but when it comes to your own history of dealing with lazy people, it’s “teehee, off to Siberia for you slacker!”
@loganmacgyver2625
7 ай бұрын
In my worst workplace doing field practice for my highschool diploma (fixing phones for 200huf an hour,) with an asshole boss. when i had enough on the second week I went on so called "tactical shits". Made my 10 minute smoke breaks into 30 minute coffee and cigarette breaks
@guillermogee5137
Жыл бұрын
True slacking is watching your vídeos instead of me working.
@bluemoondiadochi
Жыл бұрын
Are you sure it was the soviets that moved Christmass to Jan 7th? I think it was because the Orthodox church used the Julian Calendar (west uses Gregorian) and in Julian calendar Christmass fell on January 7th. For example, Christmass in Serbia is also Jan 7th, and no soviets dabbled in that.
@johnleake5657
Жыл бұрын
That's absolutely right - December 25 in the old Julian calendar is 7th Jan in the new Gregorian one. Same with Eastern Orthodox Christians - Christmas is on the 7th Jan in Ethiopia, for example.
@paulblichmann2791
Жыл бұрын
In USA the word "Truant" is nearly dead except for Truancy Officer: lady who tracks down the would be dropouts and drags them back to class.
@stevermacsoucher1625
Жыл бұрын
I'm dealing with canadian slackers at my job alot of people these days would not make it in the ussr or under the ccp
@Drunken_Master
Жыл бұрын
No, the calendar was not switched. Russian orthodox church, as well as some other orthodox churches, is still using the Julian calendar and used it centuries before the creation of the Soviet Union. Others, like Greek, Bulgarian, Romanian orthodox churches switched to revised Julian calendar in 1923 with Christmas on 25 December, the same as in Gregorian calendar.
@mkepioneet
Жыл бұрын
Personally I can't wait until some columnist for a major media outlet or LinkedIn influencer to watch this video and say "hey we need to criminalize slackers!"
@RogerThat787
Жыл бұрын
Great Point
@0utc4st1985
Жыл бұрын
I wonder how many of the cartoonists were slackers themselves?
@hotel283
Жыл бұрын
I think 'goldbricker' would be the comparable term in English.
@JohnSmith-xd8do
Жыл бұрын
Workers motto in the USSR = We pretend to work. You pretend to pay us
@UshankaShow
Жыл бұрын
Its the other way around!
@BushcraftingBogan
Жыл бұрын
This is fascinating!
@iam8401
Жыл бұрын
4:45 18 holidays, no vacation time included. With 8 hourk day.
@ryanreedgibson
Жыл бұрын
Also malingerer is one the Nazi's liked to use. Albert Speer gave a speech to the SS saying that an another word that I don't know how to translate.
@kellyvaters1689
11 ай бұрын
January 6 in the West is known as "Old Christmas" or "Epiphany" , and is the twelfth day of the Christmas period.
@12yearssober
Жыл бұрын
When I was younger I was a hard worker. Now that I'm older I am more of a slacker. I tell people with my experience of over 30 years I'm not paid for what I do I'm paid for what I know.
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