Medals flowed for the Stakhanovites in 1930s Russia and New Year's honours will doubtless follow for a small army of Linda Snellites. |
The shock worker campaign propagandists latched on to his achievement, and soon the shock workers became known as Stakhanovites. |
Meanwhile, resentment was mollified by extending the honour, so that a quarter or so of workers in an enterprise could qualify as Stakhanovites. |
The Stakhanovites, those workers who did extra shifts and produced more, were rewarded by the government, but resented by colleagues. |