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On June 12, 1936, the Constitution project was published and discussed for half a year at all levels — from meetings of workers on enterprises to republican congresses of Soviets. More than half of the adult population of the country participated in the discussion, the commission received 154 thousand proposals, amendments, and additions. The editorial commission adopted 47 amendments and additions to more than 30 articles.
On December 5, 1936, the VIII Extraordinary Congress of Soviets adopted a new Constitution of the USSR. The Constitution consisted of 13 chapters and 146 articles. It consolidated the socialist system that had been established in the USSR, realistically ensured political and socio-economic rights of workers — universal suffrage with equal secret voting, the right to work and rest, the right to material support in illness and old age, the right to receive free education, and so on. Nowhere else in the world was there such a Law granting so many rights and freedoms to an ordinary person. Unlike bourgeois constitutions, the Constitution of the USSR did not limit itself to fixing formal citizens' rights. The focus was shifted to the question of guarantees of these rights and means of their implementation.
It was precisely with the 1936 Stalinist Constitution that our country completed industrialisation, won the Great Patriotic War, restored the national economy in the post-war years, and opened the space age.
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