People got a month of vacation per year standard and could freely travel to any part of the Eastern Bloc (granted going somewhere else required more paperwork, but was still achievable by the average Soviet citizen). The average American fucking dreams of traveling as much as the average Soviet could.
Source on that month-long vacation? Sounds incredible. Also explains why the rail network did so well despite not having any high-speed lines; more time for travel.
If you mean the average american at that time, I don't know, but a few years ago I worked at Target for over a year. Took as many shifts as they would give me (no one was full-time except the upper-level managers) and had only accrued around 8 hours of paid time off by the time I quit, because of their insanely long "probation" period. A lot of Americans don't understand the words "paid time off".
People got a month of vacation per year standard and could freely travel to any part of the Eastern Bloc (granted going somewhere else required more paperwork, but was still achievable by the average Soviet citizen). The average American fucking dreams of traveling as much as the average Soviet could.
Vacationing in USSR: "no food" factory, shared toothbrush museum
Vacationing in U$A: Wally World but it's closed and you have a heated suburban dad moment :gun-shapiro:
When the big truck cuts off your suburban dad and now he booked the whole family to a night at the Mandalay Bay hotel
Plus, really extensive and relatively good passenger rail network
Source on that month-long vacation? Sounds incredible. Also explains why the rail network did so well despite not having any high-speed lines; more time for travel.
Pat Sloan wrote about it amongst many other things in Soviet Democracy
A month like 30 days or 4 weeks (28 days)? That is more than most US places got, right?
If you mean the average american at that time, I don't know, but a few years ago I worked at Target for over a year. Took as many shifts as they would give me (no one was full-time except the upper-level managers) and had only accrued around 8 hours of paid time off by the time I quit, because of their insanely long "probation" period. A lot of Americans don't understand the words "paid time off".
In Vietnam you get a whole week off and in a few places, the whole month off just for new years