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| the name stuck (the Council of People's Commissars of Soviet Russia signed the Декрет "О пособии по беременности и родам" (the Decree "On government subsidies for pregnancy and childbirth"). Since this was the first compensated state maternity leave in the world, folks just referred to it as декрет (decree), and the name stuck./19/mberdy) | |||