Thirties years later introduced themselvesSoviet official propaganda as a time of continuous enthusiasm. The chronicles, interspersed with episodes of feature films, were filled with frames of various records and achievements. Here is a plane with big white letters URSS on red wings flying to America, at the helm - Valery Chkalov. But from the ice captivity save Chelyuskinites. Praskovya, or simply Pasha Angelina is driving his tractor. Lyubov Orlova is in the ranks of well-dressed workers and sings "March of Enthusiasts." The locomotives are flying somewhere, the song "On the Counter" composer Shostakovich sounds. Cotton growers in skullcaps are smiling. And here is the beginning of the Stakhanov movement, the year 1935.
In the Soviet Union of the 1930s, of course, and by chancesomething was happening. But very seldom. And such an event as the over-fulfillment of the plan for the extraction of coal by a single miner, and not just by some 10-20%, but fourteen and a half times, simply could not be spontaneous. Imagine that the worker came to the mine early in the morning and decided to chop 102 tons instead of seven, hard. It is necessary to prepare for such achievements, and to raise the output gradually. But A. G. Stakhanov took and gave an impromptu whole mountain of coal, at least according to official propaganda. However, this was only the beginning of the Stakhanov movement, after 18 days he exceeded his record more than twice, chopping 227 tons. The labor of one person has practically become more effective thirty-two times, and this is without any technical innovations and capital investments!
The beginning of the Stakhanov movement should have beento promote the increase in labor productivity in all enterprises of the USSR, without exception. If we take the labor feat of this miner as an axiom, then the conclusion suggests itself that either he is a genius or the development rate is underestimated many times. But the entire Stalinist propaganda machine placed special emphasis on the fact that Alexey Grigorievich was by no means a man of outstanding ability, but an ordinary worker. Moreover, it would be difficult to imagine him as a genius. Despite the harsh and sometimes even cruel suppression of unwanted conversations, persistent rumors spread around the country about the conceit of a noble miner, his excessive passion for alcohol, certain problems in family life, and that the whole team was working. However, the beginning of the Stakhanov movement had already taken place, and countless benefits fell on the head of a recent simple worker. He became the owner of a new apartment, furnished with the best furniture, the owner of a car, a gentleman of the Order of Lenin, the highest award of the USSR. As for fame, she could envy any celebrity of our time.
After another fight in the restaurant, Comrade Stalinwarned a presumptuous hero about a possible surname change. The beginning of the Stakhanov movement had such an important propaganda value and was covered so extensively that its name could not be changed. The noble miner died down, but he did not refuse the bad habit of drunkenness, which, however, did not prevent him from living at the age of 72 years. He met death in a mental hospital, where he was unsuccessfully treated for alcoholism.
Despite the fact that high-performance workfinancially stimulated, for tens of millions of Soviet workers at that time there was little more trouble than the beginning of the Stakhanov movement. Date August 31, 1935 was the day of the birth of the new Soviet aristocracy - working. These workers no longer fell into the face, did not get to the machines, did not drive trucks and tractors. They had another job - to speak at rallies, meetings and solemn meetings. The lot of all the others was the implementation of repeatedly increased production rates to the sounds of the "March of Enthusiasts."
