Beware of the wheels!
Unknown artist, 1926
“Beware of the wheels! In 1925 there were 200 people run over by tramways”. (SOURCE of image and translation is A Soviet Poster A Day)
(via prettypariah)
1930’s Soviet tourism posters…if they only knew what was to come…
"In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, not to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is…in some small way to become evil oneself. One’s standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. I think if you examine political correctness, it has the same effect and is intended to."
— Theodore Dalrymple (via sacred-fox)
Народ, Армия, Сталин - Спасли тебя, Москва! / The people, the Army, Stalin - has saved you, Moscow!
1947 -So, how’d that Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact work out for ya, USSR?
yo, is that dude got two M24 grenades tied together?!
“This Russia! One grenade not enough for killing Gans!!”
Where is Stalin? Is he in your pocket comrade?
Long live the great unity of all the peoples of the whole nation
chineseposters.net:Designer: Yang Junsheng (杨俊生)
1957, January
Long live the great unity of all the peoples of the whole nation
Quanguo ge minzu da tuanjie wansui (全国各民族大团结万岁)
Publisher: Shanghai renmin meishu chubanshe (上海人民美术出版社)
Size: 53x77 cm.
Call number: BG E15/355 (Landsberger collection)
Representatives of the different ‘National Minorities’ of China take part in a parade on Tiananmen Square in Beijing.
chineseposters.net:
Designers: Shao Hua (邵华); Shao Qinglin (绍青林)
1976, June
Herdspeople love to read books by Lenin and Marx
Mumin aidu Ma Lie shu (牧民爱读马列书)
Publisher: Renmin meishu chubanshe (人民美术出版社)
Size: 77x54 cm.
Call number: BG E15/199 (Landsberger collection)
State bookshop in the North of China, where Mongolians and other ‘minority peoples’ live. The young woman on the right carries rolls of posters in her bag.
25 abandoned Yugoslavia monuments that look like they’re from the future
“These structures were commissioned by former Yugoslavian president Josip Broz Tito in the 1960s and 70s to commemorate sites where WWII battles took place or where concentration camps stood. They were designed by different sculptors and architects, conveying powerful visual impact to show the confidence and strength of the Socialist Republic. In the 1980s, these monuments attracted millions of visitors per year, especially young pioneers for their ‘patriotic education.’ After the Republic dissolved in early 1990s, they were completely abandoned, and their symbolic meanings were forever lost. From 2006 to 2009, Kempenaers toured around the ex-Yugoslavia region with the help of a 1975 map of memorials, bringing before our eyes a series of melancholy yet striking images.”
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Reblogging for their alien Atompunk glory.
Beware of the wheels!
Unknown artist, 1926
“Beware of the wheels! In 1925 there were 200 people run over by tramways”.
(SOURCE of image and translation is A Soviet Poster A Day)
