In any country and in any era, there have always been prestigious and not-so-prestigious professions. At different times people wished to be a doctor, a banker, a video blogger. Today we will find out what jobs were the most desirable for Soviet citizens? The Soviet Union was a country of workers. Then maybe builders, miners, and collective farmers were its elite? Or did the occupations of scientists, engineers, and architects attract the most attention? You'd be surprised, but that's not what the list actually looked like - there were jobs like taxi driver and butcher...why? Let's find out together.

00:00 - "All professions are equal"
02:14 - Sailors
03:58 - Diplomats
05:00 - Taxi Drivers
07:26 - Car mechanics & TV repairmen
09:36 - Waiters
11:40 - Grocery store workers
12:40 - Butchers
14:22 - Changes over time
16:11 - The most unenviable jobs

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Some additional things to read:
Anna Ivanova, Rich Hairdressers and Fancy Car Repairmen: The Rise of a Service Worker Elite in the USSR and the Evolution of Soviet Society in the 1970s, Journal of Social History, 2022;, shac060, https://doi.org/10.1093/jsh/shac060
Eaton, Katherine B. Daily Life in the Soviet Union. Westport: Greenwood, 2004.
Yurchak, Alexei. Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More The Last Soviet Generation. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2006.
J. L. Porket. Work, Employment and Unemployment in the Soviet Union. Palgrave Macmillan London, 1989. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-109...

Hey there. Somehow you found my video and decided to watch it. So let me introduce myself. I'm Sergei and I'm from Russia. My channel is about my native country. I want to tell English-speaking viewers about the real Russia, about its past and present. Unfortunately, you can find a lot of propaganda about Russia on the Internet, both from the Russian media and from the Western ones. I want to tell you about Russia, as it really is, the country in which I was born, grew up, and lived all my life.


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