The city of Donetsk, the capital of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, Donetsk Oblast, has a few days left until the New Year's holiday.
This is the time when workers across the city are shopping frantically for the upcoming New Year's Christmas holiday.
Donetsk is a famous coal city in the Soviet Union, and Donetsk Oblast is the steel center of the Soviet Union, the famous Azovstal Steelworks, Irica Steel Plant, and supporting coke plants, chemical plants, and salt mines are located nearby, forming a complete steel production base.
The majority of the city's inhabitants are workers, especially coal and steel workers.
Among them, there are many families where both father and son have worked in the same factory.
In the Soviet Union, the social status of the workers was still good, although not as good as that of the intellectuals and cadres, but much better than that of the members of the collective farms.
And in Donetsk, the most enviable are the workers who work in the coal mines.
Especially in the last year, the local coal was successfully exported to the UK, earning a lot of foreign exchange for the country, and even improving the welfare of the workers.
On the first Friday of every month, coal miners in the city of Donetsk have a special benefit.
That's the soap that coal miners can't do without every day.
Because coal miners work underground, at the end of each day, their bodies are dyed black with coal.
So, from the time of Khrushchev, soap became the most practical welfare of coal miners.
The Ministry of Coal Industry distributes soap to workers on a monthly basis through the following tertiary companies.
However, something seems to have gone wrong with this month's soap, and the soap that should have been distributed to workers a long time ago according to the previous practice has now been delayed for half a month.
This made many front-line coal miners feel a little dissatisfied.
Everyone couldn't help but talk about this matter after work.
"Have you heard, the workers' new city in Moscow has been stopped" "I heard that, it seems that because of Secretary Ligachev's reform measures, Komsomolskaya Pravda said that the residents of the new workers' city were not asked about this matter at all."
"Damn, none of these officials are good."
A group of workers grumbled while eating smoked fish and mashed potatoes in the unit's cafeteria.
At this moment, a guy pushed open the door, and the cold wind outside suddenly made the people in the house feel very unhappy.
"Close the door, do you want to freeze us all to death," one of the workers closest to the door turned around and reprimanded him dissatisfiedly.
"Why are you still eating here, hurry up and follow me to the mine, just now the mine party committee issued a notice to cancel our soap, and now the workers are gone, and they want to find the mine to get an explanation," the person who broke in gasped.
"These officials, really we workers are vegetarians, see if I don't beat his intestines out" "Just a little salary, and counting on some soap and the commune in the countryside to exchange some beets and potatoes, now it's good, even this little hope is gone" "I think Secretary Andropov has died, and these bastards are itching again" The more the coal miners at the scene talked, the more excited they became, and they didn't care about continuing to eat, so they picked up their coats and ran out.
When they walked out of the canteen, they saw workers coming from all directions walking in the direction of the mining party committee.
Some people may ask if it's for a few bars of soap, but if you ask any coal miner in Donetsk, you'll know that it's a serious problem.
Every coal miner returns to the surface with soap to remove the coal from their bodies, but each worker receives far more soap per month than they actually use.
What to do with the rest of the soap, of course, it will go to the black market and exchange it for something else that can be used.
In the current Soviet Union, because of the deformed industrial layout, light industry is far from meeting the needs of the common people, such as soap and other daily necessities are in demand on the black market, if you see who is not pleasing to the eye, you can even use a few pieces of soap to exchange a handful of Tokarev from the hands of gun dealers.
The party committee of the Donetsk mining area is now in a mess, and since they received a rectification notice from the Ministry of Coal Industry, they immediately announced it, but they did not expect to cause such a big trouble.
Countless workers ran in and asked why they were doing this.
"This is a decision from above, and the ministry has notified that it is necessary to cooperate with the economic reform of the central government."
"You don't need us so much soap to carry out reforms, right?"
"I didn't even let go of these few bars of soap, and we couldn't live" "Do you know what the price of soap is on the black market now, we can't even eat meat when we buy soap with that little salary?"
The person who said this is not a nonsense, most of the workers have several children in their families, and they are not well off in the first place, and the goods in the state-run stores are all put on display, and if you want to buy things, you have to go to the black market, and the prices in there are so expensive that people are scared to death.
The workers did not know that it was not Ligachev's idea to stop soaping, but Seryosha's instructions.
Seryosha had also been at the bottom of society and knew what these seemingly inconspicuous little things meant to the workers below.
And the soap from the Ministry of Coal Industry is just the beginning.
At the same time, at the Volgograd aluminium smelter thousands of miles away from Donetsk, workers were arguing with the plant's managers over whether to send the blast furnace workers kvass to prevent heat from the heat by the end of the year.
The electrolytic aluminium plant, which is under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Metallurgical Industry, was also secretly instructed by Seryosha to cancel some of the workers' benefits.
Seryosha was on vacation at the moment, and he took Yulia to the holiday villa in Sochi in advance, avoiding the disturbances of Moscow.
However, Seryosha did not really stop working, but secretly instigated the mood of the workers.
"Yulia, call the journalists of Komsomolskaya Pravda and ask them to go to Donetsk, to Volgograd to interview the workers there."
Selyosa soaked in the warm water, a cigar in one hand and a remote control in the other, quickly searching for programs of interest.
At this moment, Yulia, who was in her pajamas, walked into the bathroom and asked, "Are you asking me to call now?"
"No, wait a while," Seryosha said, and at once dragged Yulia into the bathtub.
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"Minister, it turned out that you had bad intentions when you asked me to come on vacation with me" Yulia did not reject Seryosha, because she liked a powerful big man like Seryosha.
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"You can call me, Seryosha," Seryosha said, kissing Yulia heavily on the lips. t1706231537: