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To: xkaydet65

1936 CONSTITUTION OF THE USSR

Adopted December 1936

ARTICLE 120. Citizens of the U.S.S.R. have the right to maintenance in old age and also in case of sickness or loss of capacity to work. This right is ensured by the extensive development of social insurance of workers and employees at state expense, free medical service for the working people and the provision of a wide network of health resorts for the use of the working people.

ARTICLE 121. Citizens of the U.S.S.R. have the right to education. This right is ensured by universal, compulsory elementary education; by education, including higher education, being free of charge; by the system of state stipends for the overwhelming majority of students in the universities and colleges; by instruction in schools being conducted in the native language, and by the organization in the factories, state farms, machine and tractor stations and collective farms of free vocational, technical and agronomic training for the working people.

ARTICLE 131. It is the duty of every citizen of the U.S.S.R. to safeguard and strengthen public, socialist property as the sacred and inviolable foundation of the Soviet system, as the source of the wealth and might of the country, as the source of the prosperous and cultured life of all the working people.

Persons committing offenses against public, socialist property are enemies of the people.


40 posted on 09/29/2015 6:24:48 PM PDT by smartyaz
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To: smartyaz
Thank you for posting that excerpt from the 1936 Soviet Constitution. It sent me to a source of the whole text and I read Chapter X (Rights and Duties) from which you drew your excerpt.

Bernie Sanders is reading directly from Stalin's USSR playbook. I'm not surprised, really, only amazed at how similar they are. I'm going to send copies of that chapter to my friends who say they're going to vote for Sanders. Some of them are intelligent enough to be able to see the folly.

"Hey Bernie, how did all those constitutional rights work out for the Russians under Stalin, eh?"

52 posted on 09/29/2015 7:46:38 PM PDT by dayglored ("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.")
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