Technically, it was illegal to be unemployed - i.e. 209th paragraph of USSR criminal code criminalizing living off of a 'parasitic way of life', such as a healt

Technically, it was illegal to be unemployed - i.e. 209th paragraph of USSR criminal code criminalizing living off of a 'parasitic way of life', such as a healthy work-capable person living for more than four months without socially useful labor through begging, vagrancy, etc.