soviet satirical writers ilya ilf and yevgeny petrov write about this in their novel "the golden calfonarchist khvorobyov suffered from the revolutionary calendar. quote: when instead of pure sunday, khvorobyov's days of rest became some purple fifths, he disgustedly got himself a pension and settled far outside the city, but... the bodies of socialism were also unhappy with the revolutionary calendar. members of one family had to rest separately, but wanted to be together, after 2 years they switched from a five-day week to a six-day week, in 1940 they returned to a normal work week. 75 years ago, on october 1, 1949 , the people's republic of china was formed. the long civil war ended. the communists won a victory over the army of the kuominteng led by chiang kai-shek, who was supported by the americans. and now, at a grand ceremony in beijing on tengyanmen square, in the presence of 300,000 people, the chairman of the central committee of the communist party, mao zedong, announced the creation of a new state. then there was a military parade and processions with portraits of mao zed