Are we not aware that the Chinese New Year is not January 1st? This New Year, Yiyou, begins February 9th 2005. Oh, and it's not 2005 anyway; it's the year 4702.

And the Jewish New Year, Rosh Hashanah, occurs in the month Tishri -- which probably isn't on your calendar, so don't look. It's not 2005; it is the year 5766.

Come on people- use some sensitivity.

Where do you get all these calendars? You should only be using the People's calendar! Get yourself a People's calendar before we come find you.

Vladimir Ivanov

We must move beyond multiculturalism to multidimensionalism. There is no time, no place, no who-what-where-when-how. There is no New Year.

IGNORANT FOOLS!

For 11 years starting in 1929, Stalin imposed first five-day and then six-day weeks on the Soviet Union. The elimination of Sunday, with its strong religious associations, was one purpose of his experiments.

12 30-day months were used instead of the Julian or Gregorian calendars.

Those were happy days, every day.

You are all ordered to re-education before daring to show your party card again, or before submitting your next 5-Year Plan.

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A historical note:

the Soviet Union certainly did tinker with the calendar. On October 1, 1929, a calendar was adopted with 12 months of 30 days each, with five extra days (and the leap day) distributed at different times in the year as national holidays. The seven day week was abolished with the elimination of the "bourgeois" rest days of Saturday and Sunday. This was supposed to help increase industrial production, though each worker was allowed a day off on one of the remaining five days of the week. The five or six extra days did not count in the week. This all was unpopular and didn't work very well, so on December 1, 1931, the traditional months were restored, but not the seven day week. Instead, a six day week was adopted, with a rest day, but without a Christian Sunday. Days were still kept outside the week so that each day of the month was always on a particular day of the week. The problem with this was that people still kept track of the traditional week and still took Sundays off. So the whole business was abandoned on 26 June 1940.

- Red Square

This is what American bourgeois yellow press wrote about tremendous success the USSR had achieved in the labor department:

June [1940] laws against labor, abolishing the 7-hour day 5-day week, legalizing the 8-hour day, 6-day week, and in reality even longer hours, without any increase in wages, making it a criminal offense to quit one's job, or even come late to work – in short, converting the workers into industrial serfs bound to the factory; the October laws against the youth, driving the children of workers and peasants from schools and universities by instituting tuitions, and making children 14 years of age and over liable to draft in the “labor reserve,” i.e., restoring child labor.

https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/w ... 2/laws.htm

Comrade Red Square is correct, as all true representatives of the vanguard of the proletariet should be, and should be rewarded with an extra bowl of borscht.

Once a month.

As a True Marxist(TM), with an understanding of history, he neglects to mention, however, that in June 1940 the Hitlerite fascists had just completed the conquest of France in what then was considered a remarkably short period of time.(two weeks, as opposed to about two hours in today's world)

Comrade Stalin, who, for correct Communist reasons had signed a non-aggression pact with Nazis just a year before, was driven to stand up and scream a rare non-athiestic "Jesus F*cking Christ!", realising that a long replay of WW1 western front warfare that would drain the Germans and benefit the USSR wasn't going to happen, and that the people were in for some serious shit coming down on thier heads.

Happily, the NKVD and party were able to inspire heroic acts of sacrifice from the Soviets, as Red mentioned above, and a year later when Barbarossa was launched, a four year extermination plan was ready to stop the right, and the people lived happily ever after, until about 1990 or so.

I think I read it somewhere that days off had been officially eliminated in the months preceding the war and a seven-day week lasted for all workers until the war ended. A Google search yielded no result, though, and my grandparents are no longer around to ask this question.

Why would anyone complain about a 7 day work week? I mean, we give them 2 hours to sleep every day! What's to complain about?