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The post overwhelmingly uses sources from before the opening of Soviet records for examination by academics. Forced overtime without pay was extremely common. Mandatory 12 hour shifts were also common, and 'voluntary' overtime from workers whose piece-rate quotas were set so ridiculously low that they could not sustain themselves on the 'mandatory' work day was the norm for much of the pre-Khrushchev Soviet era.