Following the funny weekend let us show you some anti-alcohol agitational posters of the Soviet time.
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On the sick leave. “Hardly you need a sick-list to take some “Stolichnaya” ..
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“Prisoner”, moonshine
Stop! It’s the final warning!
Someone is a fool and someone’s too smart, one takes a book, another comes to a pub!
Out!
No mercy for hooligans!
Volunteer public order squad
Alcohol is an enemy of production.
Corporate parties are to be stopped!
Alcohol
The reason is drinking!
Alcohol is an enemy of mind!
Don’t be in captivity of a bad habit.
Her choice
Rich content
Juice. This new acquisition is so feat …
Say NO to booze!
Speculator is the worst enemy!
Spare a child you may have!
Stop, while there is yet time!
Let’s overcome drinking!
Harmful for health, family and posterity.
One glass and another one …
A toast for health!
Alcohol – an active accomplice in crime.
Vodka causes lack of discipline, parasitism, absenteeism, bad production, crime, hooliganism.
Some words about harm of alcohol… sometimes it happens so …
Socially dangerous
Alcoholism
There is no place in life for such people.
Alcohol – pain of nature
Very interesting posters. My favorite is the wine glass hidden in the wrench.
First
Oh, no! My nickname was stolen again.
Stop invading my privacy please!
there is no celebrated poster “NO” here: http://www.grasskiller.ru/fotos/folders/56/plakat_sovetskiy_plakat_1754.jpg
On the first picture, is there a pepsi bottle?
yes
Never mix Stoli and Pepsi!
I can see by the current level of alcoholism, that these posters were very effective. Cheers to the artist and producers of this propaganda.
That first guy is not a drunk (meaning, the guy in the first photo; I don’t know the status of the commenter here named “First”) — you clearly see he is only drinking Vodka because he finished all his delicious, non-alcoholic, Capitalist Pepsi, and he can get no more due to Cold War.
Remember, kids: Cold War Kills!
That one about the book vs. the pub is funny. Didn’t the soviets burn most of the books and kill off most of the teachers during their revolution?? I mean, book learning was a bad thing.
Either way, this is the only way to overcome a problem like this. You can’t force people to stop. Only a campaign to make it a bad thing will make people stop. (most anyway)
no they didn’t, you dumb fool.
PS. people who “hate communism” can go and die. no1 cares about you.
No worries, comrade. We’re already dead.
The bitter paradox is that the poster seems to suggest that even the poorest trash of the society (the cornerstone of Lenin´s revolution) can become an educated kulak (hated and mercilessly murdered “rich” countryman) by quitting drinking.
Weird.
As much as I hate Communists, this anti-alcohol posters are excellent, maybe with the exception of the one about the Evil Speculator.
I loved the Soviet Union. The country advanced 50 years in just a decade due to the Marxist emphasis on egalitarianism (women’s rights), education (literacy), and employment (Magnitogorsk, etc.). Of course, nothing is perfect. There are just as many social ills in the U.S. today (drugs!).
Then why did it fail genius?
After 50 glorious years, please tell me ONE non-military or non-alcoholic product of quality, that the USSR produced and exported? Name one?
oil and spaceships
Also we export grain and bread for some countries.
Archy, you FAILED, damn… xD
Can you read: I wrote manufactured, not grown. You never exported any grain anyway, you were constantly importing it from the USA.
I apologize, I did not write manufactured, I was thinking it but did not write it. So, my point as written is invalid. USSR never manufactured one non-defense related product and successfully exported it.
When you say “for some countries” you mean “for the fat sows in the Politburo”.
and a lot of smart men
because US lacks smart people
A smart person knows how to capitalize and punctuate sentences properly. LOLZ!
Smart people from around the world go to America and they always have.
>> Then why did it fail genius?
USSR collapsed because of the Cold War, Afghan War (that it couldn’t afford on top of the Cold War) and falling oil prices. Corruption contributed to it too, but this could be fixed if dirty politicians didn’t start ripping the country apart, pushing it to civil war and eventually destroying it for their own private gain. In the USSR, a lot of effort went into making the people better human beings (like in Star Trek). Today, the politicians’ goal is to continue stealing as much as possible for as long as possible. The abundance of natural resources and the population that swims in vodka and doesn’t give a damn help the cause. Very simple.
You are an intelligent Comrade.
Please. The system that survived WW2 couldn’t overcome Afghanistan? The system was corrupt during communism and after the fall, you write this yourself. So what is the difference? USSR fell because it was founded on an economic system that does not work and could only sustain itself for a few years. Communism, on a huge scale, don’t work. All the USSR did, was produce weapons. Even your vaunted space program, is defense related. USSR never manufactured 1 non-defense related product and exported. not 1. Russia is a grand place, but how some of you can sing of socialisms praise, makes me question your sanity.
The quality of the artwork in these is really amazing; I love the Soviet styles of poster art. Some really clever images.
Soviet graphic design – superior as ever!
Please, more soviet posters!