>And it is important that those days can overlap with others - what good is a day of fun if you can't do it with friends and family? Depends upon if those in c

>And it is important that those days can overlap with others - what good is a day of fun if you can't do it with friends and family? Depends upon if those in charge of setting this up viewed family as a bad thing. From the article: >The ostensible reasons for the shift were economic. Its accidental social consequences, like families being unable to come together, or religious practice made more challenging, seem to have been seen as a bonus. In one diary entry dated shortly before the changeover, the historian Ivan Ivanovich Shitz wrote disparagingly about how the nepreryvkawould kill off Sundays and all Christian holidays, he wrote, and make it impossible for people to meet in groups, whether union-based or political, or as a family. Finally, he wrote, its primary function seemed simply to generate the illusion of a culture of intense work.