Re: There are rumors in circulation...
Posted by Guscha On 2011/4/7 16:33:07
Word has it that the communism is a sociopolitical movement that aims for the abolition of private property. But why the recipients of the Stalin Prize have gotten such an amount of money?
The medals of 1st, 2nd and 3rd degrees have been accompanied with 150,000, 100,000 resp. 50,000 rubles, whereas the monthly average income in the U.S.S.R. in 1955 was 76.3 rubles. An average citizen would have to work more than 54 years to earn 50.000 rubles.
The official exchange rate between the Soviet ruble and the US dollar in that year was 4:1. Depending on the degree of the medal the prize money ranged from $12,500 up to $37,500.
The above pictured woman collected a lot of money. And her trick?
She drove tractor! She started in 1929, later on she organized all-female tractor teams and about ten years later she was hitting the mark of more than hundred thousand female tractor drivers, was made an official celebrity, glorified and depicted on propaganda posters, even in the walled part of Germany, I lived in.
In an abandoned Soviet spystation on an ice floe amidst the Arctic Ocean a propaganda film has been found, starring that woman. But that's another story ...
In 1959 she drunk herself to death.
The End
[picture source: Советский Союз]
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The medals of 1st, 2nd and 3rd degrees have been accompanied with 150,000, 100,000 resp. 50,000 rubles, whereas the monthly average income in the U.S.S.R. in 1955 was 76.3 rubles. An average citizen would have to work more than 54 years to earn 50.000 rubles.
The official exchange rate between the Soviet ruble and the US dollar in that year was 4:1. Depending on the degree of the medal the prize money ranged from $12,500 up to $37,500.
The above pictured woman collected a lot of money. And her trick?
She drove tractor! She started in 1929, later on she organized all-female tractor teams and about ten years later she was hitting the mark of more than hundred thousand female tractor drivers, was made an official celebrity, glorified and depicted on propaganda posters, even in the walled part of Germany, I lived in.
In an abandoned Soviet spystation on an ice floe amidst the Arctic Ocean a propaganda film has been found, starring that woman. But that's another story ...
In 1959 she drunk herself to death.
The End
[picture source: Советский Союз]
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