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- "In Memoriam of a Stakhanovite"
- Vladimir Vysotsky
- ПАМЯТИ СТАХАНОВЦА
- ВЛАДИМИР ВЫСОЦКИЙ
Сидели пили вразнобой "Мадеру", "Cтарку", "Зверобой" - и вдруг нас всех зовут в забой, до одного: у нас - стахановец, гагановец, загладовец, - и надо ведь, чтоб завалило именно его.
Он - в прошлом младший офицер, его нам ставили в пример, он был, как юный пионер, всегда готов, и вот он прямо с корабля пришел стране давать угля, а вот сегодня наломал, как видно, дров.
Спустились в штрек, и бывший зек - большого риска человек - сказал: "Беда для нас для всех, для всех одна: вот раскопаем - он опять начнет три нормы выполнять, начнет стране угля давать - и нам хана.
Так что, вы, братцы, - не стараться, а поработаем с прохладцей - один за всех и все за одного".
...Служил он в Таллине при Сталине - теперь лежит заваленный, - нам жаль по-человечески его...
Summary:
We sat and drunk all kinds of spirits, suddenly all of us are called to the mine face: we had a stakhanovite, and it so happened that just he was heaped under. <...> We went down the drift, and our foreman, former zeka a man of great risk, told us: "We dig him out, he would continue producing triple quotas, and all of us are in a really big trouble. So, we better not try too hard, let us work 'All for One and One for All'. He served to Stalin in Tallinn, now he is heaped, we all feel humanly sorry for him." Mikkalai 07:51, 21 Oct 2004 (UTC)
[edit] The article puts a rather positive spin on the Stakhanovites
I've always heard it as a term of derision. The way it was presented to me is that the Stakhanovites would set records in production which management then expected all of the other workers to match (and who was the wag who said that under capitalism man exploits man, but under communism its the other way around?). This emphasis on increased quotas, and penalties for failing them, became another one of the mechanisms of Soviet era oppression and control (<sarcasm>Thank God there aren't any companies like that in America!</sarcasm> of the working classes.
Whjamisonjr 04:10, 1 February 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Great patriotic war
It seems that this article has a soviet bias. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 71.245.164.60 (talk) 04:53, 29 December 2006 (UTC).
[edit] Father of the Modern Sales Contest
Stakhanovism sounds the the beginning of the modern sales contest. Managers find someone to set an outrageously high target and then admonish everyone to aspire to it. As days dwindle and reality begins to rear its ugly head, those who doubted all along are silenced through terrorism or termination. As the final days arrive, salesmen reach ahead to push product into other's inventory and convert future sales into the sales contest period, thereby increasing production through gimmicktry and at the expense of future productivity. At the close of the contest, mangement is not obliged to reward any increased productivity, because the target was not reached, but often does so when workers laud bosses for their fairness and justice. Then the organization purges itself of anyone who was smart enough to see how it would conclude, and often blames them for ruining the sales effort with their negative attitudes.
