I recall hearing stories of how the Soviet government had to send representatives to negotiate or even beg the worker Soviets of some factories to change their production lines to match some of the 5 year plans.
But sure, totalitarian control over the population was a thing.
I read a book for school, can't remember what it was called, but a big part of it was how the workers of a factory in late Communist Hungary would basically take their factory apart and re-build it based on what resources were available. If they had potatoes and carrots it was a baby food factory. If they had fruit it was a juice factory. Whatever shortages they might face they would re-configure their equipment to continue to produce something if they possibly could.
And then, of course, when Communism was destroyed the factory was stolen and they all lost everything.
thats a very interesting example. Very flexible factory production lines aren't something you really hear about nowadays in a world that emphasizes profitability through streamlining and specializing factory production lines. Thank you for sharing.
I recall hearing stories of how the Soviet government had to send representatives to negotiate or even beg the worker Soviets of some factories to change their production lines to match some of the 5 year plans.
But sure, totalitarian control over the population was a thing.
Totalitarianism is when capitalists don't get to do whatever they want
I guess that makes the nazis and fascists less totalitarian than the communists :xok-og:
I read a book for school, can't remember what it was called, but a big part of it was how the workers of a factory in late Communist Hungary would basically take their factory apart and re-build it based on what resources were available. If they had potatoes and carrots it was a baby food factory. If they had fruit it was a juice factory. Whatever shortages they might face they would re-configure their equipment to continue to produce something if they possibly could.
And then, of course, when Communism was destroyed the factory was stolen and they all lost everything.
thats a very interesting example. Very flexible factory production lines aren't something you really hear about nowadays in a world that emphasizes profitability through streamlining and specializing factory production lines. Thank you for sharing.