In 1939 in the USSR, the very first old-age pensions (i.e. social security benefits for retirees) were introduced for representatives of a single profession. What was that profession?
By the 1950s, everybody in the USSR had old-age pensions, except for a single group. That group only got the right to old-age pensions in 1964. What was the profession of the people in this group?
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I’m guessing party officials first got the old age pensions and the last people to get them are considered some kind of flight risk or rich. Former petit bourgeois merchants? Professors?
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I’m going to guess teachers were last to get pensions? And maybe military was first? Although Shakti makes a good point that perhaps party officials were first to get pensions.
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I am guessing military was the first and kolkhoz workers last.
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Thinking of how soviet things worked in general, I would guess that members of parliament would be first and university professors or doctors would be last but that seems too obvious.
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1939 was very very different in terms of class structure than everything that happened after WW2. This is my small hint. 🙂
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Drummers!
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