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The city sleeps. It is quiet and empty outside, there are no lights, no people. But the bread factory does not sleep: It is preparing our morning bread. BREAD! Much BREAD IS NEEDED BY THE CITY! The people will wake up, and everyone will reach out for a piece of bread.
2
The exclamatory remark - “BREAD!” - underlines the necessity of the product to the collective whole, emphasizing how this factory bakes “our morning bread” so the reader now thinks about the factory as not just affecting their family, but also their neighbors and fellow citizens. Even though “the city sleeps”, bread factory workers have just gotten up for work, and the capitalized phrase jars the reader and wakes them up as they follow the workers through the night shift.
3
"Bread Factory No. 3": The obviously-named factory and generalized numeral ascribed to the facility underscores that this is one factory out of many; we assume that there is a Bread Factory #2 and #4. This is not a mom-and-pop bakery, but an industrial factory that operates identically at each location: with machines at the center and workers who help the machines.
4
At Хлебозавод No. 3 (Bread-Factory No. 3), the work day is inverted because of the nature of the product: if fresh bread is needed for breakfast, then the work day begins at night. Even though the city sleeps, productivity never rests, and this shows how all 24 hours of the day can be utilized.
5
The juxtaposition of light and dark creates a magical atmosphere around the factory because it signals that there is something special about this place. The productivity of the city depends on the productivity of Хлебозавод No. 3, and the dependence of the former to the latter idealizes the beacon of light, transforming it from an ordinary factory to an integral piece of the Soviet machine.
