Russian state media calling for unpaid 6th day of work to fund Ukraine invasion, Western intel says

[applegrove]

Russian state media calling for unpaid 6th day of work to fund Ukraine invasion, Western intel says

Chris Panella May 28, 2023, 1:45 PM GMT-4

https://www.businessinsider.com/russian-state-media-6-day-work-week-fund-ukraine-invasion-2023-5

"SNIP.........

A Russian propagandist said citizens should work two extra hours after their regular shifts, according to intelligence from the Ministry of Defense.


* Russian state media and businesses are petitioning for a 6-day work week to fund war in Ukraine.

* The extra work day would likely come without additional pay, according to UK intelligence.

* Multiple 4-day work week trials in the UK and Spain have reported positive results for employees.

........SNIP"

[dalton99a]

1. How about Putin funding it out of his bank accounts?

[applegrove]

2. The extra work profit is probably going to his bank account. The whole

Russia armed forces will need to be rebuilt. Lots of money in that for Putin too.

[617Blue]

3. I'm guessing there's not much choice here. nt

[Igel]

4. Humorous, in a warped way.

Russian serfs could render their dues to their feudal lord in two ways.

A serf traditionally had land, typically crappy land, to work to feed himself and his own. He didn't own the land, but was bound to the land (at least legally--it was easier and easier to sell serfs without the land, or the land without the serfs, as time went on--in some ways, better than US slavery, but in others worse--the serf owed X amount and if it meant his family starved ... whatever). Note the monarchy abolished serfdom in 1861; also note that not much changed for the ex-serfs.

One way for a serf to pay his lord for land use was a levy of time. Barshchina. You work X number of days/year (or /month or /week) for the landowner.

The other was a levy of produce. Obrok. You give the landowner a fixed amount of produce--not a percentage. A bad harvest meant hardship; only a truly horrible harvest meant the landowner would suffer much.

They want Putin to re-introduce barshchina. Corvee, I think it is in English. (Borrowed from French, since the English system was different.)

(Of course, this was exactly paralleled in the Soviet Socialist Republic's use of subbotniki, so it's not like the practice went away except under late tsarism and until Lenin consolidated power ... until "socialism in one country" was overthrown in '90-'91. So Putin's true to his oligarchic and totalitarian roots, monarchic and socialist, as are his lackeys.)

[Trenzalore]

5. This is how revolutions start

[Crowman2009]

6. Wouldn't be surprised if a general strike occurs before that.

[Trenzalore]

7. Their kids are being slaughtered and he is asking them to work harder

Don't care what the propaganda is. There is going to be some objections.

[Ex Lurker]

9. Russians will endure a lot

and the war hasn't really touched Moscow and St Petersburg yet. Counting on the Russian people to put an end to this without a lot more pain than they're experiencing now is wishful thinking, in my opinion.

[Trenzalore]

10. I'm sure the security forces are included in this mandate

When you tell the guards they have to work an extra day without pay it can be troublesome.

[calguy]

8. That should go over well.

Putin's lucky he's a dictator.