The Propaganda Archive

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Don’t become a victim of drugs (Soviet poster, 1985)

Text: Don’t become a victim of drugs … Sobriety is the norm of life.

Year: 1985.

Publisher: Unknown.

Artist: G. Nazarov.

Additional Information: Shows an opium-spider sat in its web. Published in the Ukrainian SSR in Dniprodzerzhynsk (modern day Kamianske). ‘Sobriety is the norm of life’ was a slogan associated with the Soviet Union’s anti-alcohol (and drug) campaign launched in 1985.