Red banners and "thirteenth pay " bonuses stimulate workers
Soviet propaganda both sentimentalizes and glorifies industrial workers as the backbone of the revolution. Like the legendary miner Alexei Stakhanov, who dug an unprecedented 102 tons of coal in one six-hour shift, workers are constantly praised for scaling greater heights of industrial productivity, led on by the guiding spirit of Communist Party leadership.
At an international nongovernmental tribunal held last year in Washington, D.C., to inquire into the status of human rights in the U.S.S.R. and East bloc countries, Soviet emigrants painted a different picture. They described a sullen labor force griping about low...
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