05 - A Promise to Grandpa
Mar 14, 2023
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A bit of explanation is needed here. Wladyslaw's grandpa was the original "Stachanowiec". Who is that? In the communist era in Poland (and other soviet states) the economy was planned. That means, that unlike in capitalism where you produce as much as people are willing to buy, back then the ruling party was deciding how much of a given thing was supposed to be produced. And that included EVERYTHING: apartments, shoes, jars of mustard, you name it. That lead to situations where you had eg. no meat on shops' shelves but instead you had 200 boxes of mustard that nobody wanted because someone up there miscalculated the expected needs.
So if everyone knew exactly how much of a given thing the party told everyone to produce the production was divided evenly. BUT it was obviously possible to do your job quicker, to deliver more in a shorter period of time (and "bumelant" (slack off) the rest of the day). The guys who were working like this were called the Stachanowiec, the production leaders. The name originates from a Russian worker Aleksiej Stachanov who was the first to "deliver 200%" of work assigned to him; and was widely used in propaganda to motivate people to deliver more for the common good.
So Wladek here is aspiring to be as ambitious as his grandpa was: who delivered 500% of work and got a monument for his achievement.
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