stackyFACTSIn a supreme act of chronological rebellion, the Soviet government decided that shifting clocks twice a year was entirely too much effort.
In a supreme act of chronological rebellion, the Soviet government decided that shifting clocks twice a year was entirely too much effort. In 1930, they pushed the clocks forward an hour and simply refused to change them back, effectively locking the entire nation in permanent 'summer time' for over fifty years. If there is one thing a massive bureaucracy hates, it is having to manually update the timetable on thousands of trains.
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