Thread:Deathstalker666/@comment-1915529-20150523192506/@comment-1496755-20150820102806

Not a bad idea - this will make the Wiki look perfect. "See, we don't even need to edit our articles, they have always been so good. Check the edit history, if you don't believe..."

Actually, communism was crazy about badges, merits and similar things. Every factory, farm, or even cleaning team had to be "the first" or "the best" at something. So when the day came to go on a parade (cause "spontaneous" parades were a very popular thing back then), every bunch of people would be carrying a large poster with some proud achievement on it, e.g. "highest number of produced pickles in 1972" or "largest amount of chopped onions in a month."

And it was even worse at schools, where students would get badges for just about anything - "collected more dry leaves than all of his classmates" or "helped the highest number of old ladies cross the street". It goes without saying that the student with the highest grades would get to wear a special red ribbon, so that everyone in town would know he/she has the highest grades.

This achievement mania gave birth to a numerous weird slogans, most of which had political subtext. Here are a few REAL examples:


 * "Every chicken - a flying fortress; every egg - a bomb versus capitalism!"
 * "Every jar of strawberry jam - a nail in the coffin of capitalism!"
 * "Every true communist - underground!" (poster at a mine)
 * "Every wasted product - a tragedy for the whole work crew!"
 * "Rhythmic eating is the foundation of high productivity!"
 * "One second of carelessness - dead for the rest of your life!" (classic)
 * "In every house - a cow!"
 * "The higher the chance to hit, the more likely you are to hit." (from a military facility)