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- zosoIV, on 04/25/2008, -3/+145One page?
Vintage design?
Full, accurate descriptions?
Dugg.
Plus it looks badass. - Slagtits, on 04/25/2008, -23/+159Don't know about you, but I'm inspired to kick some capitalist ass.
- roulettescars, on 04/25/2008, -3/+93Say what you will about communisim, but you can't say they don't have style.
- inactive, on 04/25/2008, -1/+59I like the women's liberation poster "women are liberated, now get to work!" lol
- DeathJux, on 04/25/2008, -2/+51Thank you so much for putting this all on one page.
- talonstriker, on 04/25/2008, -9/+35Some of these would make for an awesome poster on my wall if I weren't worried about the DHS.
- Fullvinyl, on 04/25/2008, -4/+30Of course, Bush still has until 20 January to change all that...
- fizzak, on 04/25/2008, -1/+18I didn't see anyone seriously comparing apples to oranges. Just that the old Soviet propaganda art is cool. Dont take it so serious McCarthy!
- bosssmiley, on 04/25/2008, -2/+19Don't worry, the Soviets aren't the enemy anymore. Haven't been since 1989 or so...
- puffinstuff, on 04/25/2008, -3/+19The early Soviet era (esp. the Russian revolution) had amazing aesthetics. The USSR produced so much of this stuff that you can find a lot of it on Ebay for pennies over the cost of shipping... They'll just keep re-listing. The Stenberg Brothers made some of the best (mostly for films).
- leontes, on 04/25/2008, -3/+19Whoops: here is the correct tiny url (still not a rickroll): http://tinyurl.com/2tbjb7
- ffttoteof, on 04/25/2008, -1/+16If my local zoo had advertisements that looked that awesome, I would go to my local zoo.
- DigablePlanet, on 04/25/2008, -2/+16I love soviet propaganda.
- inactive, on 04/25/2008, -0/+14Dugg for having lots of content on ONE ***** PAGE.
- MrM1yagi, on 04/25/2008, -0/+13Sarcasm radar must be jammed with raspberry today.
- talonstriker, on 04/25/2008, -0/+13Damn you! I thought this might be the only Russian thread w/o a russian reversal joke.
- Fullvinyl, on 04/25/2008, -0/+12The "Keep Your Mouth Shut" poster was parodised in the Sealab 2021-Volume 3 packaging with White Debbie as the model.
I love Soviet art; I wish we had something comparable. The old World War II posters just don't really compare, as nice as some of them are. - wpi97, on 04/25/2008, -5/+16Currection: most of the time there is no toilet paper. Normally, you use a newspaper, after your cut out the picture of the General Secretary from the front page, of course.
- pusle, on 04/25/2008, -7/+18I shall look at Soviet retro posters for inspiration next time. Some rather effective posters. Nice one.
- samuraix98, on 04/25/2008, -1/+12this is actually rather sad since here they show only 15 or so when in reality there are thousands of these in book and in my grandpas basement. i guess being Russian pays off.
- leontes, on 04/25/2008, -5/+15I've always thought this liberator poster from the end of the nazi regime really hits the US where it hurts, bringing up the horrors of capitalism, slavery and whatnot; still utterly chilling and intriguing, and somewhat relevant in this day and age. (not a rickroll): http://tinyurl.com/8y9d9
- jeremyduffy, on 04/25/2008, -2/+11Maybe it's just me, but Russian's look pretty bad-ass even if they're not trying to. I'm betting most of their WOMEN could take me in a fight. They are a tough people.
- inactive, on 04/25/2008, -11/+20i don't know why you got dugg down...
here digg:
capitalist: one who believes that people should be able to do whatever they want as long as they don't hurt others.
socialist: one who believes in forming a thug army (government) so they can force everyone to do what they think people should do. - Fastbullit, on 04/25/2008, -8/+17It's called pop art you idiot.
- thescimitar, on 04/25/2008, -3/+12That is a factual statement and what is known as an association fallacy. It's like saying, "Many men are murderers" or "many blacks are illiterate." What you meant to say is, "I believe Obama supporters are socialists (or communists, etc), so this would appeal to them not as art but as functional to their cause."
Either man up and say what you mean or don't say it at all. - sfury, on 04/25/2008, -0/+8"Beware of the wheels!" - reminds me of the wonderful "Master and Margarita"
- talonstriker, on 04/25/2008, -2/+10***** your "love it or leave it" propaganda, you jingoist. In a moral sense, you're as bad as the muslim fundementalists when they cry for infidels to be washed off the earth.
On a side note, most eastern european countries are socialist...and they're almost utopias (compared to US). So take that for your "socialism is the fai"l rhetoric. - thescimitar, on 04/25/2008, -0/+7That is completely terrifying.
- mister23, on 04/25/2008, -0/+7i gotta say, they have some nerve bringing up slavery/kkk etc. you know, seeing as they are nazis.
- wpi97, on 04/25/2008, -6/+13I guess whoever dugg this down never lived in the USSR.
- mister23, on 04/25/2008, -3/+10federal health care is a far cry from communism.
- LongShlong, on 04/25/2008, -0/+7Inspiration for what?
- dthomas53, on 04/25/2008, -0/+7"With the launch of Operation Barbarossa by the Germans in June 1940, the Soviet Union entered World War II."
Errm...1941: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Barbarossa - ivandir, on 04/25/2008, -4/+11At least they say it how it is. Here in the USofA women haven't realized that their liberation from their family has been an enslavement to the corporate world. Why do you think American families are so ***** up (divorced, bad marriages, bad childhoods).
Women didn't have to be "liberated" they just had to be given more freedom against their husbands. Now go back to work to pay that mortgage. - Regbooker, on 04/25/2008, -0/+6I can imagine the Digg headline if those posters were American:
"American evil Cold War brainwashing machine: Cold War posters" - wpi97, on 04/25/2008, -3/+9Ukraine. And as I said, occasionally we did have toilet paper, but most of the time we didn't. Why, was there toilet paper where you lived? And back in the day my grandmother actually did cut out Stalin's portrait from the front page, before using the newspaper for its *intended* purpose.
- StanislawLem, on 04/25/2008, -5/+11Sure, lies...growing up in a Communist country I guess I just hallucinated the ***** living conditions and violent repression. Go ***** yourself, you wannabe revolutionary.
- wpi97, on 04/26/2008, -3/+9If anybody is full of *****, it is you. Estonia, along with Latvia and Lithuania, were probably some of the best places to live in the USSR. Riga was the place where I saw cheese in a store for the first time in my life. Several kinds of it too.
Ну а ты из Союза, или так, фигню порешь? - Asvetic, on 04/25/2008, -0/+6Dugg for Russian Constructivst El Lissitzky
- sfury, on 04/25/2008, -0/+6There probably was some connection, but as the article states the soviet propaganda relied more on the modernist approach
And you should know that the Orthodox Church, and any other beliefs were very suppressed during the communism era. Atheism was widely promoted, and any obvious references to the christian imagery/icons would be suppressed too. - wpi97, on 04/26/2008, -1/+7"the Bolsheviks violated a core Marxist ideal."
The Bolsheviks violated many ideals. For example, Russia was essentially an agrarian country, almost feudal, where industry and capitalism had just started to develop. Marx, on the other hand, believed that socialism would arise as a natural consequence of fully developed capitalism, which did not exist in Russia in 1917.
But this is not the main issue. Inequality, creation of an elite, corruption, and inefficiency, appear to be inevitable consequences of trying to implement Marxism in practice on a large scale. It may work on the scale of a "tribe", a community of hundred people or so, like in the kibbutzim in Israel. And even there it works best only in very difficult times, when members of the community heavily depend on each other for their very survival. Judging from the history so far, implementing "true" Marxism on the scale of a country of a decent size is likely to result in disaster.
"Due to the impracticality of establishing a communist state and still maintaining equality, a truly Marxist society has yet to be established and never will be established."
So, what is the point then of a social system that apparently can never be implemented in practice without being perverted into a bloody dictatorship? The discussion is not even "academic". It is like discussing the advantages of a Ptolemaic model of the solar system, when we all know that Newton's laws do a much better job of predicting the movements of the planets. You know, circles are so much better than ellipses, and having the Earth in the center makes us all feel very special. :) - Jambi, on 04/25/2008, -3/+8I grew up in Poland and East Germany, thanks. Also, nice pic...couldn't find a good one of Hitler?
- 1807, on 04/25/2008, -1/+6Propaganda Design & Aesthetics...I think I took that class..
- bemenaker, on 04/25/2008, -1/+6I've always been amazed at how few people can see that reality. "But Communism is like that," no, it isn't. The USSR was NEVER a communist country, only in name.
- printenv, on 04/25/2008, -4/+9Yah, how terrible would it be to have health care for all. I mean, ***** my fellow man. I want people to get health care based off their social and economic status. I want to have people die if they don't make enough money or didn't inherit enough from their parents.
- Morphinity, on 04/25/2008, -1/+6Because they look cool. It's the reason people wear Che Guevara shirts.
- wpi97, on 04/26/2008, -1/+6@sovietamerica
Я что-то не вижу ответа... Или ты по-русски читать не умеешь? - Sinnic, on 04/25/2008, -0/+5Russians drawn for inspirational propaganda posters tend to. I think that's the point, actually.
- inactive, on 04/25/2008, -3/+8They're not socialist. They're dictatorships that called themselves communist to placate people when they came into power. Scandinavian countries are closer to actual socialism. Of course, if you like capitalism so much, don't visit Sweden or Norway because you might end up having to move.
- DucoNihilum, on 04/25/2008, -3/+7Stereotypical communist.
Ad hominem attacks, ignorantly stereotyping every non communist as a rich white republican, and who has a picture of one of the most tyrannical dictators to ever exist in his avatar, as if he were somebody to admire.
I doubt you've even seen real communism (or know about real capitalism for that matter), -
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