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What are "vacation tickets"?

• justsomehnguy 3y ago
  Remember what USSR had a planned economy? There was a system of distribution of pre-paid by the government (and maybe, not sure, there were a subsidized ones) and by big factories, ministries, which often had their own resorts/sanatoriums, vouchers[0] to rest/vacate/heal there. Add: Sometimes they were a part of incentive and motivation for fulfilling a quota or finishing a project, sometimes as means to penalize someone ("You've been seen in the state unacceptable for a Soviet man, so you are out from the list for putyovka this year!") and of course as means to gamble or obtain something, trading it for things or services. [0] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D0%BF%D1%83%D1%82%D1%91%D0%B2%D0%BA%D0%B0 https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D0%BF%D1%83%D1%82%D1%91%D0%B...
• ymolodtsov 3y ago
  How you get a vacation in a capitalist country: you earn enough money and buy it. How you get a vacation in the USSR: most people just don't earn enough money to buy it on the "open market", so instead you apply for one. And the supply is very limited. So you need to know someone, pull some strings, provide something in return to the people who make decisions and maybe you get a subsidized tour. The people making these decisions have an additional income (not always monetary) through the power they yield.