Worker And Supervisor At A Car Factory, Moscow, 1954

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The distance between the two of them is too close. The worker has his hands not hanging loose, but slightly raised as though preparing to make a move. Meanwhile, the supervisor has that one hand at the collar of her dress like she’s trying to slightly spread it more and draw attention to her chest. The scene just screams sexual tension. Or, since it’s a factory, it’s just really loud and they have to be close to hear what the hell the other person is saying. And everything else is a happy coincidence.

Soviet efforts to expand social, political and economic opportunities for women constitute the earliest and perhaps most far-reaching attempt ever undertaken to transform the status and role of women. The early Soviet regime ensued a policy of pushing more women into urban industrial employment these policies were ideological driven, and political or economical. During Joseph Stalin’s rule the number of women working increased from 24 percent of the workforce in 1928 to 39 percent in 1940. In the period 1940–1950 women were 92 percent of new entrants in employment; this is mostly due to the exodus of the males who fought during World War II.

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