https://www.marxists.org/refer...works/1936/12/05.htm

Chapter X : Fundamental Rights and Duties of Citizens

ARTICLE 118. Citizens of the U.S.S.R. have the right to work, that is, are guaranteed the right to employment and payment for their work in accordance with its quantity and quality.

The right to work is ensured by the socialist organization of the national economy, the steady growth of the productive forces of Soviet society, the elimination of the possibility of economic crises, and the abolition of unemployment.

ARTICLE 119. Citizens of the U.S.S.R. have the right to rest and leisure.

The right to rest and leisure is ensured by the reduction of the working day to seven hours for the overwhelming majority of the workers, the institution of annual vacations with full pay for workers and employees and the provision of a wide network of sanatoria, rest homes and clubs for the accommodation of the working people.

ARTICLE 120. Citizens of the U.S.S.R. have the right to maintenance in old age and also in the 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 122. Women in the U.S.S.R. are accorded equal rights with men in all spheres of economic, state, cultural, social and political life.

The possibility of exercising these rights is ensured to women by granting them an equal right with men to work, payment for work, rest and leisure, social insurance and education, and by state protection of the interests of mother and child, pre-maternity and maternity leave with full pay, and the provision of a wide network of maternity homes, nurseries and kindergartens.

ARTICLE 123. Equality of rights of citizens of the U.S.S.R., irrespective of their nationality or race, in all spheres of economic, state, cultural, social and political life, is an indefeasible law.

Any direct or indirect restriction of the rights of, or, conversely, any establishment of direct or indirect privileges for, citizens on account of their race or nationality, as well as any advocacy of racial or national exclusiveness or hatred and contempt, is punishable by law.

ARTICLE 124. In order to ensure to citizens freedom of conscience, the church in the U.S.S.R. is separated from the state, and the school from the church. Freedom of religious worship and freedom of anti-religious propaganda is recognized for all citizens.

ARTICLE 125. In conformity with the interests of the working people, and in order to strengthen the socialist system, the citizens of the U.S.S.R. are guaranteed by law :

a) freedom of speech;

b) freedom of the press;

c) freedom of assembly, including the holding of mass meetings;

d) freedom of street processions and demonstrations; These civil rights are ensured by placing at the disposal of the working people and their organizations printing presses, stocks of paper, public buildings, the streets, communications facilities and other material requisites for the exercise of these rights.

ARTICLE 126. In conformity with the interests of the working people, and in order to develop the organizational initiative and political activity of the masses of the people, citizens of the U.S.S.R. are ensured the right to unite in public organizations - trade unions, cooperative associations, youth organizations, sport and defence organizations, cultural, technical and scientific societies; and the most active and politically most conscious citizens in the ranks of the working class and other sections of the working people unite in the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Bolsheviks), which is the vanguard of the working people in their struggle to strengthen and develop the socialist system and is the leading core of all organizations of the working people, both public and state.

ARTICLE 127. Citizens of the U.S.S.R. are guaranteed inviolability of the person. No person may be placed under arrest except by decision of a court or with the sanction of a procurator.

ARTICLE 128. The inviolability of the homes of citizens and privacy of correspondence are protected by law.

ARTICLE 129. The U.S.S.R. affords the right of asylum to foreign citizens persecuted for defending the interests of the working people, or for their scientific activities, or for their struggle for national liberation.

ARTICLE 130. It is the duty of every citizen of the U.S.S.R. to abide by the Constitution of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, to observe the laws, to maintain labour discipline, honestly to perform public duties, and to respect the rules of socialist intercourse.

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 offences against public, socialist property are enemies of the people.

ARTICLE 132. Universal military service is law.

Military service in the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army is an honourable duty of the citizens of the U.S.S.R.

ARTICLE 133. To def en d the fatherland is the sacred duty of every citizen of the U.S.S.R. Treason to the country - violation of the oath of allegiance, desertion to the enemy, impairing the military power of the state, espionage - is punishable with all the severity of the law as the most heinous of crimes.

All these "rights" are guaranteed until they aren't. Like a guarantee for a used car, it's only good until you take your vehicle off the lot. Without the ability to retrieve power (recognized by out 2nd Amendment) from a tyrannical government, these promises are empty.

Problem, it is a very autocratic gov't that interprets and applies the constitution. The USSR "Constitution" in the attachment was enacted under Stalin. How did the citizens of the Soviet Union fare under their Constitution at the time of Stalin (and subsequent dictators)??

Seems Orwell was pro Stalin, until he saw the reality of Stalinism, which prompted him to author Animal Farm. "All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal".

LOL!

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ARTICLE 125. In conformity with the interests of the working people, and in order to strengthen the socialist system, the citizens of the U.S.S.R. are guaranteed by law :

a) freedom of speech;

b) freedom of the press;

c) freedom of assembly, including the holding of mass meetings;

d) freedom of street processions and demonstrations; These civil rights are ensured by placing at the disposal of the working people and their organizations printing presses, stocks of paper, public buildings, the streets, communications facilities.....

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Originally posted by pulicords:
All these "rights" are guaranteed until they aren't. Like a guarantee for a used car, it's only good until you take your vehicle off the lot.

It's like that Oklahoma warranty: If it breaks in half, you own both pieces.

The USSR constitution should be found in the 'fiction' section of your bookseller. The reality of living in the USSR is that your rights are what the government tells you they are, and you have zero ability to complain or oppose. To dovetail in with an earlier comment, I can give you a written auto warranty that says the car is covered bumper to bumper for the next ten years. But when you come back and I (the Russian government) suggest your warranty is not worth the paper it's written on, you're stuck with it. Too bad so sad.

It sounds nice and its intentions are good, no?
Good people should love it, let's go.

Articles 118 to 123 are the ones Mark Levin pointed out. Universal employment, universal schooling, universal healthcare, etc.

Every one is equal. Equally poor, equally oppressed, equally deprived of the rights in Articles 124-128.

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Originally posted by Lefty Sig:
Articles 118 to 123 are the ones Mark Levin pointed out. Universal employment, universal schooling, universal healthcare, etc.

Every one is equal. Equally poor, equally oppressed, equally deprived of the rights in Articles 124-128.

Yes, everyone is equally stomped on, except for those in the ruling class.

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Originally posted by Lefty Sig:

ARTICLE 130. It is the duty of every citizen of the U.S.S.R. to abide by the Constitution of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, to observe the laws, to maintain labour discipline, honestly to perform public duties, and to respect the rules of socialist intercourse.

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 offences against public, socialist property are enemies of the people.

And if you don't you're an enemy of the state. Some deal.

I still don't understand people favoring Putin, an ex-KGB agent, the last few years. I will never side with USSR over USA anything. That guy is a clown, murdering his opponents and willingly sending his planes into our airspace, fucking with us.

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Originally posted by 83v45magna:

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Originally posted by pulicords:
All these "rights" are guaranteed until they aren't. Like a guarantee for a used car, it's only good until you take your vehicle off the lot.

It's like that Oklahoma warranty: If it breaks in half, you own both pieces.

2 for 1, double plus good.

The key is article 131. Everyone has all those rights as citizens but certainly not applicable to enemies of the people! So, just figure out what they did against the public good and viola! USSR Constitution intact and another enemy of the people in the gulag.