The Soviet Union Tried To Change The Calendar and Failed Miserably

Grant Piper
5 min readSep 25, 2022
Soviet calendar. (2022, September 18). In Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_calendar

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.

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Grant Piper

Professional writer. Amateur historian. Husband, father, Christian.