I haven't finished the text, but it's a bad write up. The author tries to make it impressive, and for that brings unneeded speculations. > Failing to applaud

I haven't finished the text, but it's a bad write up. The author tries to make it impressive, and for that brings unneeded speculations. > Failing to applaud a speech by Joseph Stalin could get a person arrested. So could listening to bootlegged copy of the Beatles. The Beatles were published in USSR officially, as well as many other western artists. At least in late USSR. I still have many those vinyl discs. In earlier years, when my father was young, he and his friends had all rock records: Beatles, Creedence, Deep Purple, Pink Floyd, everything. Without any problems. Stalin and the Beatles are two different ages. Also, life in USSR was not always the same during its existence. > That fact drove Soviet policy toward time off.. No evidence is given, what driven the policy. That's just a speculation. > As the country industrialized, it became evident workers needed time away from the job if they were to remain productive when they were on it. What? That had always been evident. Rest and free time was a theme of socialist movements all over the world long before the October Revolution. > Following this train of thought, hardliners feared... I always love when journalists have telepathic abilities. Not only they know what people do, but also what they think and feel. > They also believed that, once the science of work systems had been perfected, workers would no longer need rest, rendering time off obsolete. Really? A reference is needed. Vacation time was only growing with years. As far as I understand, the ideology was that with time the growing work efficiency will give more and more free time to workers. In short, in this text true facts are mixed to produce some bullshit picture of the author's fantasy. Journalism.