Putin restores Soviet ‘Hero of Labour’ title
Worldwide, Daily news | ankakh | March 29, 2013 20:52Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday restored an honorary Hero of Labour title that was first awarded in the Lenin era to workers who outperformed their Communist work quotas.
The Russian leader — a former KGB agent who once called the dissolution of the Soviet Union one of the great tragedies of the 20th century — signed a presidential decree restoring the famous title that disappeared when the USSR fell apart in 1991.
“This is also the view of our leading professional union,” he added in reference to the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Putin signed a decree restoring the title shortly after making those remarks.
The Hero of Labour was one of the Soviet Union’s most coveted awards and a sign of either a person or factory’s commitment to socialist ideals
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