[Rhodes22-list] Who pointed out the Articles of the Soviet Constitution?

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Pointing to Article 40 leads to the next few articles.  Read them below and
see if they sound familiar:

Article 40. Citizens of the USSR have the right to work (that is, to
guaranteed employment and pay in accordance wit the quantity and quality of
their work, and not below the state-established minimum), including the
right to choose their trade or profession, type of job and work in
accordance with their inclinations, abilities, training and education, with
due account of the needs of society. 

This right is ensured by the socialist economic system, steady growth of the
productive forces, free vocational and professional training, improvement of
skills, training in new trades or professions, and development of the
systems of vocational guidance and job placement. 

Article 41. Citizens of the USSR have the right to rest and leisure. This
right is ensured by the establishment of a working week not exceeding 41
hours, for workers and other employees, a shorter working day in a number of
trades and industries, and shorter hours for night work; by the provision of
paid annual holidays, weekly days of rest, extension of the network of
cultural, educational, and health-building institutions, and the development
on a mass scale of sport, physical culture, and camping and tourism; by the
provision of neighborhood recreational facilities, and of other
opportunities for rational use of free time. 
The length of collective farmers' working and leisure time is established by
their collective farms. 

Article 42. Citizens of the USSR have the right to health protection. 

This right is ensured by free, qualified medical care provided by state
health institutions; by extension of the network of therapeutic and
health-building institutions; by the development and improvement of safety
and hygiene in industry; by carrying out broad prophylactic measures; by
measures to improve the environment; by special care for the health of the
rising generation, including prohibition of child labour, excluding the work
done by children as part of the school curriculum; and by developing
research to prevent and reduce the incidence of disease and ensure citizens
a long and active life. 

Article 43. Citizens of the USSR have the right to maintenance in old age,
in sickness, and in the event of complete or partial disability or loss of
the breadwinner. 

The right is guaranteed by social insurance of workers and other employees
and collective farmers; by allowances for temporary disability; by the
provision by the state or by collective farms of retirement pensions,
disability pensions, and pensions for loss of the breadwinner; by providing
employment for the partially disabled; by care for the elderly and the
disabled; and by other forms of social security. 

Article 44. Citizens of the USSR have the rights to housing. 

This right is ensured by the development and upkeep of state and
socially-owned housing; by assistance for co-operative and individual house
building; by fair distribution, under public control, of the housing that
becomes available through fulfilment of the programme of building
well-appointed dwellings, and by low rents and low charges for utility
services. Citizens of the USSR shall take good care of the housing allocated
to them. 

Gee, Peter, Ben and Robert how about Article 42?  And did the Soviet Union
survive under Communism?  It does not work, no matter how noble the idea.  

Ed K

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