Soviet Union
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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…
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Into a new apartment (Soviet painting, 1952)
Text: NA. Year: 1952. Publisher: NA. Artist: Aleksandr Laktionov. Additional Information: Shows a mother entering her new apartment. The boy holds a portrait of Stalin and wears the scarf of the Young Pioneers while the mother wears a First Class Maternity Medal, awarded to women who had six or more children.
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Hours of daily tele-propaganda (Soviet cartoon, 1978)
Text: Hours of daily tele-propaganda showing violence, cruelty and debauchery poisons the souls of Western youth and contributes to the growth of crime in the capitalist countries. Year: 1978. Publisher: Krokodil magazine. Artist: Naum Moiseyevich Lisogorsky. Additional Information: Condemns the alleged poisoning of western youth with ‘tele-propaganda’, violence and pornography.
