What the Soviet Union gave people
1. The right to an eight-hour working day. For the first time in the world in the history of mankind.
2. The right to annual paid leave. For the first time in human history.
3. The impossibility of dismissing an employee on the initiative of the administration or the owner without the consent of the trade union and party organization.
4. The right to work, to be able to earn a living by their labor. Moreover, graduates of vocational schools had the right to compulsory employment in a labor direction with the provision of housing in the form of a hostel or apartment.
5. The right to free general and vocational education. Moreover, both secondary vocational education and higher. For the first time in the world.
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6. The right to free use of preschool institutions: nurseries, kindergartens, pioneer camps. For the first time in the world.
7. The right to free medical care. For the first time in the world.
8. The right to free spa treatment. For the first time in the world.
9. The right to free housing. For the first time in the world.
10. The right to freely express one's views on all problems of modern life in the country. For the first time in the world.
11. The right to protect the state from the arbitrariness of local bosses and officials. For the first time in the world.
12. The right to free travel to the place of work or study on an individual, state-paid travel document. For the first time in the world. In addition, women had the right to a number of their additional benefits: - the right to three years of maternity leave with the retention of a job (56 days - fully paid, 1.5 years - allowance, 3 years - without interrupting the length of service and the administration's ban on dismissal); - the right to free nursing services for a child up to one year old; - the right to a free dairy kitchen for newborns up to three years old; - the right to free medical and spa treatment for any childhood diseases. In no other country in the world has there been anything like it and could not even be in sight. Some social benefits in foreign countries began to appear only after the Second World War as a result of a powerful labor movement,caused by the existence of the Soviet state on the planet.
With such powerful social conquests behind their backs, the Soviet man was sincerely proud of his country, knowing that his country possessed colossal achievements in the development of its national economy, namely:
1. We ourselves, without any outside help, have restored the destroyed national economy of the country after the First World War and the Civil War, and after the Great Patriotic War. The history of mankind has never known such a popular feat.
2. In terms of all economic indicators of the development of the country's national economy, since the second half of the twentieth century, we have occupied a solid second place in the world after the USA. And we must not forget that three monstrous wars swept across the expanses of Russia in the twentieth century, and on the territory of the United States there have been no wars at all for the last one and a half years.
3. In terms of the number of inventions registered per year, we also ranked second after the United States. And this indicator speaks about the technical level of our industrial production. This level was comparable to the American one, with the world's first economy!
4. We had the best system of general and special professional education in the world, to which America is only now beginning to switch. And our schoolchildren and students at all intellectual Olympiads of the world have always won prizes, far ahead of the representatives of the rest of the world. Remember the words of the American President John F. Kennedy, who bitterly said in the sixties that the Russians won the competition for Space at the school desk against the Americans and that it is time for us Americans to adopt the Russian experience of education.
5. We had the best preventive health care system in the world, to which America and Europe are just beginning to switch.
6. We possessed the world's best system of physical and sports training of the population of the country, to which China has already switched and a number of civilized countries of the world are beginning to switch.
7. We had one of the best space exploration systems in the world, with which only America could compete.
8. We possessed the best military technology in the world, with which only America could compete. You can also add a few words here that we had a country that the world reckoned with and which was a Great Power with a Great History, Great Industry, Great Science, Great Culture, Great Education and Great Ideas for building a new society. on Earth, fair for all people in the country, not just for the rich