The police were vigilant about enforcing this decree. When anyone living in the Soviet Union upset either side of this balance, the police intervened. In the communist times there was no unemployment. Now there is unemployment, which comes in two forms. Many enterprises employ short workweeks, grant their employees endless unpaid holidays and pay them symbolic salaries.
People have to find additional jobs and occupations.
Many recklessly plunged into trade, private entrepreneurship and small business. This new employment is very primitive, but rather effective - the shelves of shops are now crammed with goods. Industrial production cannot avoid falling. The lion's share of industry was made up by the military industrial complex. Now this brontosaurus of communist economics is dying out.