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When Soviet artists trained workers like machines
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The Soviet obsession with productivity got so intense in the 1920s that Aleksei Gastev tried to literally engineer human workers into meat machinery. Through bizarre biomechanical performance training, he synchronized laborers to the ticking of metronomes, completely convinced that stripping away human rhythm would birth the ultimate socialist factory cyborg.
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