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The Soviet Union Tried To Change The Calendar and Failed Miserably
One of the hallmarks of a revolutionary regime is to change the calendar. What is more powerful than intimately changing how people live and work? Time is universal. It is essential. Everything runs off of time. The calendar reigns supreme. Change the calendar, change the world. That is the thinking behind the egotistical governments that attempt to change the calendar.
Many have tried to change the calendar system. Julius Caesar changed the calendar, and it stuck. The Julian calendar was used for centuries before undergoing some minute changes to the Gregorian calendar, which we still use today (that is why we have months like July and August, which are named for Julius and Augustus Caesar). The French revolutionary government tried to change the calendar and failed. The Soviet Union followed that up 100 years later by tinkering with the calendar yet again. They, too, failed.
The French got caught up in the fervor that if you can change the immutable monarchy, you can change anything and everything. Similarly, the Soviet Union wanted to garner more control over the population by eliminating Sundays and religious holidays while trying to eke out the most efficiency from their workforce possible.
