Brigadier's card in the movement for a more beautiful Prague
Have you ever been on a temporary job? In a way, they have been preserved to this day, but as voluntary. They are still occasionally used by parents in kindergartens, for example when they need to rake leaves or do other work in the garden. However, today parents do not compete with each other to see who can do the most for a given "enterprise" and are not rewarded for their performance, for example, with "luxury" holidays organised under the auspices of the Revolutionary Trade Union Movement (ROH) in designated recreational facilities in Czechoslovakia.
Jaroslav Hájek, the brother of Hana Krausová, participated in such a true communist brigade in the kindergarten in 1955.In June, she brought us many interesting documents telling about the life milestones not only of herself, but also of her brother and other relatives. These documents included a Brigádník ID card in the movement for a more beautiful Prague. The brigades of the time were elaborate and were intended to rouse the people of communist Czechoslovakia to increased socialist work initiative. Although originally a military concept of a fighting group, the very idea of a Socialist Labor Brigade came from the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, where in 1958 the first labor collective competing for the title of Brigade of Communist Labor was formed. In the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic, brigade competitions gradually developed from the early 1960s onwards, their task being to increase the building enthusiasm and spirit that had gradually waned since 1948. The brigades carried out tasks in socialist construction, in the intensification of the national economy, in the development of science, technology, and the quality and efficiency of work, further consolidated socialist production relations, and generally raised the cultural level of the workers. The aim was to seek even more effective forms and methods of work for society. We can still learn from the Brigade Card in the Movement for a More Beautiful Prague that Jaroslav Hájek completed another brigade in 1964, organised by the District National Committee.