Donetsk Noted 80th Anniversary of Stakhanovite Movement

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Donetsk noted the 80th anniversary of the Stakhanovite movement with a retrospective exhibition entitled, A Great Beginning for the Donbass. The exhibition, which includes about 60 paintings, sculptures, and commemorative medals, opened today at the all-Republic Art Museum. DNR Minister of Culture Aleksandr Paretsky attended the gala event, along with figures from industry, politics, and celebrities, alongside ordinary people. Paretsky observed, “These canvases evoke images of Alexei Stakhanov and his colleagues… railwayman Pyotr Krivonos, steelworker Makar Mazaya, traktorist* Praskovya Angelina. Their names are a legitimate source of pride; they help our young republic today to return to working people their deserved honour and glory. Despite wartime conditions, we’re getting ready to celebrate one of the most favourite holidays in the Donbas… Miner’s Day… we should be sure to remember one of the most famous miners who ever lived… Aleksei Stakhanov”.

• Traktorist: “tractor-driver”, actually a rural jack-of-all-trades, driver, mechanic, harvest apparatus operator, general “fix-it man”

The exhibition presents the work of 35 artists, most of them being local Donetsk homies. The list includes Pyotr Vasyukov, Polina Shakalo, Ivan Lisov, and others. Vladimir Sarbash, technical director of the Donetsk Coal Energy Company, who was at the exhibition, said, “It excited and thrilled me to see these canvases at the museum. We learned about some of these folks in books; we worked with some of these people. They were real heroes of labour, the bedrock of the working class of the Donbass”. The exhibition will be on display and run until the end of October, being completely open to the public.

The Stakhanovite mass movement followed the example of Soviet Donbass coalminer Aleksei Stakhanov, who worked at the Central-Irmino Mine. Stakhanov mined 102 tonnes of coal during the night shift of 30-31 August 1935, when the norm for a shift was 7 tonnes. Subsequently, on 19 September, he set a new record by bringing 227 tonnes of black gold to the surface. The all-Union Communist Party encouraged and promoted the Stakhanovite movement, as a new form of socialist competition and as a way of increasing labour productivity.

27 August 2015

DAN Donetsk News Agency

http://dan-news.info/culture-ru/doneck-otmetil-80-letie-staxanovskogo-dvizheniya-masshtabnoj-vystavkoj-retrospektivoj.html

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Putin Promotes New Movement with Old Values

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President Vladimir Putin spent Friday morning on live television, promoting a fledgling political movement and cataloguing prospective initiatives reminiscent of the USSR in their values, traditions, and emphasis on social benefits. Presiding over a two-and-half-hour question-and-answer session in the southern city of Rostov-on-Don, Putin breathed new life into his all-Russian People’s Front (Общероссийский народный фронт: ONF) movement, revived a Soviet-era decoration, the Hero of Socialist Labour, and, uncharacteristically, joked about his time as a KGB officer.

The president also pushed for a number of measures likely to find favour in Russia’s conservative, far-from-wealthy heartland, including free healthcare, protecting parents’ rights to raise their children as they see fit, and curbing generous “golden parachutes” for resigning executives. He likewise called for a standardised approach to schooling, particularly the teaching of history and the reintroduction of school uniforms… a proposal that won him a round of applause from the 500 or so ONF supporters in attendance. In June, the ONF is due to hold a founding congress meant to cement its legal status as a “public movement”.

29 March 2013

RIA-Novosti

http://en.rian.ru/russia/20130329/180333032/Russias-Putin-Promotes-New-ish-Movement-Old-ish-Values-.html

Editor’s Note:

It’s now clear why the Church has dragged its feet in re Paffhausen. Russia’s moving left… THANK GOD. It’s rejecting oligarch crapitalist excess and returning to Soviet communalist sobriety. After all, VVP revived an award created by Iosif Stalin… that means that those who favoured the American greedster assault on Russian civilisational values since 1991 aren’t welcome anymore. I wonder if that means that Fatso (who’s a confirmed Far Right nutter) is out for good (there’s no joy in Mudville for Potapov et al either… his attack on Stalin was premature and unfounded, wasn’t it)? If so, God IS good…

BMD

Putin to Revive Soviet-era Title “Hero of Socialist Labour” in Russia

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President Putin met with activists who served in his presidential campaign a year ago and promised to revive a Soviet-era award by the end of Friday. On Friday morning, in Rostov-on-Don, Putin said, “In the USSR, we had the title ‘Hero of Socialist Labour’, and in my opinion, it was reasonable”. He said this whilst meeting with staffers of the all-Russia People’s Front, who successfully campaigned for his re-election for a third term. He said that the necessary orders would be in place by the end of the day to revive the title, which became defunct almost two decades ago. The Soviets widely-used the award, established under the rule of Iosif Stalin, used to honour civilian workers for their labour achievements and to encourage them to increase their output. The initiative to resurrect the title Hero of Socialist Labour came out of a previous meeting of the People’s Front with Putin in December.

29 March 2013

RIA-Novosti

http://en.rian.ru/russia/20130329/180318899/Putin-to-Revive-Soviet-era-Title-in-Russia.html

Editor’s Note:

I wonder how everyone’s favourite US government lackey in the District, Victor Potapov, is going to react to this? I’d say this to Hilarion Kapral:

Watch your back around Potapov and his clique. They’re sell-outs of the worst sort; they’d knife the ROCOR in the back to preserve their positions with Foggy Bottom, the Pentagon, Langley, and K Street (they’d do it to ingratiate themselves with those who keep them in jobs with the American apparat… they’d make it sound like YOU were the scoundrel). In short, they’d be a new set of Denisenkos… do have a care.

The Hero of Socialist Labour is back… what’s next? Hear that noise? That’s Potapov, Paffhausen, Webster, and Dreher scuttling out the back door to get their orders from their American sugar-daddies. Hmm… they’re listening to “Their Master’s Voice”… and it’s NOT coming from the Centre. As I said, I hope that Vladyki Hilarion takes a care…

BMD