Workers of the World, Take PTO! - JSTOR Daily
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Vacations in the Soviet Union were hardly idylls spent with one’s dearest. Everything about them—from whom you traveled with to what you ate—was state determined.

This article is an interesting look at vacations and tourism within the USSR (first place in the world to require paid leave). But, the author can't help but describe everything as a sinister authoritarian conspiracy. I wonder what percent of American workers were going on paid multi day river cruises in the 1970s.

  • ssjmarx [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    This is a hilarious bit of Sovietology, thanks for sharing.

    Each year, a limited number of accommodations at these locations were offered at a reduced cost or—in some cases—free of charge to one in every ten Soviet workers.

    Shock! Horror! Imagine allocating a limited resource fairly :porky-scared: