Soviet Union Cold War Propaganda Collection: The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics abbreviated СССР, SSSR), was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991.
The Soviet Union was a single-party state ruled by the Communist Party from its foundation until 1990. A federal union of 15 subnational Soviet republics, the Soviet state was structured under a highly-centralized national government and economy. (Source: Wikipedia ). (Wikipedia)
Soviet Union Cold War Propaganda Collection:
Soviet Life:
1945 Youth, master skiing!
1946 Young Soviet people vote for a happy youth!
1946 Get down to work! The plan is clear, go build for our Motherland, dear
1946 Look, sings and dances the entire Soviet Union. There is nothing brighter or more beautiful then our red spring!
1946 Nice and light kindergartens shall we open everywhere
1947 Youth, take everything from your stadiums!
1947 A deputat (Member of Parliament) is a servant of the people
1947 When there comes a working tide, they plow both day and night!
1974 A leash must be strong!
1947 Everyone has to take part in elections!
1947 I tell you what, an old man as I am
1947 I vote for the communistic candidates and the non-party!
1947 Let’s Restore the Country!
1947 Long live to Soviet athletes!
1947 My happiness relies on your success!
1947 Relay race for the ‘Evening Moscow’ prize
1947 Vote for the prosperity of every town, every village of our beloved motherland!
1948 Be an excellent student!
1948 Five-year plan in four years!
1948 Gonna be a metal worker!
1948 Healthy Parents – Healthy offspring
1948 If up to sowing terms we keep-a pretty heap of crops we reap!
1948 Oil industry workers, more oil for the Motherland! Perform five-year plan in 4 years!
1948 Produce above the plan, comrade lumberman!
1948 Saluting with a heroic work!
1948 Serve every customer in a civilized manner!
1948 To work hard is to be with bread!
1949 Care to listen to wise words of an eldest. Money should be stored in Sberkassa
1949 Dry season shall we overcome too!
1949 Great Stalin is the bright torch of communism!
1949 Long live and great prosper to our Motherland! I. Stalin
1949 Reach the wealth!
1949 To trade in a civilized manner is a honourable work!
1949 Value the honor of your family!
1950 Field Work Can’t Wait!
1950 Aim to build fast, cheap, and good!
1950 For The Homeland! For Stalin! For Peace! For Communism!
1950 Fight for the honor of your factory name!
1950 Electric energy to Kolkhozes, Sovkhozes, MTS (Machine and Tractor Stations)!
1950 For the people’s happiness!
1950 Glory to our beloved country!
1950 People’s dreams came true!
1950 Such women did not and could not exist in the old days
1950 The World Women Skating Championship
1950 Transport more oil to the needs of the beloved Motherland!
1951 Want to be like so? Train!
1951 Glory to the Soviet Railwaymen!
1951 Honor and glory to a Soviet teacher!
1951 In the name of Communism!
1951 One day we will be pilots too!
1952 World Peace!
1952 European Women Basketball Championship
1952 Love books, they are source of knowledge. A. M. Gorkiy
1953 Precisely on schedule!
1953 Vigilance is our weapon!
1954 Babble, gossip – playing into the hands of the enemy
1954 Babbler is a godsend for the enemy!
1954 Babbling is helping the enemy!
1954 We complied with the norm … Have you?
1954 Field works can not wait!
1954 Let’s gather the rich harvest from the virgin land!
1954 Let’s go with us! To new lands
1954 Raise the skill of the Soviet soccer!
1954 Respect someone else’s work. If you made a mess, clean up after yourself.
1955 Workers in light industry and commerce! Your best results are satisfied customers!
1955 Athletes! Fight for new achievements in the sport!
1955 Be happy, dear!
1955 Build strong, finish in advance!
1955 Develop the pig-keeping!
1955 Don’t you dare
1955 Long Live to World Peace!
1955 Meet with labor victory!
1955 Millions of kilowatts to the Motherland!
1955 My beauties are the best! They will make me proud at the exposition!
1955 There is no better clothes on earth, than bronze of muscles and freshness of the skin. V. Mayakovsky
1955 The Sport Games of the USSR. Tryouts of strength and skill!
1955 To new victories in work and sport!
1956 Young engineer, spend more time at the workshop!
1956 We respect our elder!
1956 Wear it with pride! (School Uniform)
1956 Welcome!
1956 Engage in rowing and sailing!
1956 Fight against hooliganism!
1956 Happy new year filled with peace and friendship!
1956 He grasped only one science is how to properly take a bribe. We must not give him ‘in a hand’, but grab him by ‘the hand’.
1956 I’ll do it on my own!
1956 This is not my profession!
1957 Breed rabbits!
1957 Do not wait for someone to do your work. Learn how to work, love to work.
1957 Move whole family to new places
1957 Tobacco is a poison. Quit smoking!
1958 Make a hooligan to answer for his actions!
1959 Drawing, music and singing classes will raise cultural education of a student with out a doubt!
1959 Quack doctors, out! They do not cure, only rob and maim!
1960 We know how things are done. Giving a hand to our mom!
1960 We love to work hard and that’s why we have something to be pride of!
1961 Drive chairwarmers from their cushy jobs!
1961 Let the sun always be!
1961 Life is good!
1962 Water, sun and fresh air are your best health care!
1962 We need no war!
1962 Humane relations and mutual respect between people. Man to man is a friend, a comrade and a brother
1962 To work, comrades!
1962 USSR is a mighty athletic power!
1963 World Congress of Women, convened WIDF
1963 Bread for the Motherland!
1963 Happy Womens` Day
1963 The Party said there’s a necessity. Komsomol answered, yes! to the fields, to the building sites!
1964 You earn what you deserve
1964 Welcome, or No Trespassing
1964 Let’s conquer the virgin blue!
1964 Let’s work some more!
1964 Value every minute at work!
1965 Do not lie ever!
1965 Here’s our earnings!
1966 Happy holiday to you, girls!
1966 Manage skillfully!
1967 Nobody is forgotten, nothing is forgotten
1967 Preserve the monuments of art and culture!
1967 That’s what laziness and day dreaming during the season paid off slacker
1967 The right place for an infant is at nursery, not in tundra
1968 Don’t lose working minutes!
1972 Knowledge to everyone!
1973 We need peace
1975 The Sport Games of the USSR
1976 The Party is the mind, honor and conscience of our epoch!
1978 Bread for the Motherland!
1981 Our condition is to stop profanity!
1986 Random love affair will last like a flash, but it may cause a sickness and hospital visits.
Military:
1946 Glory to the Red Army!
1947 Glory to you, invincible Moscow, beauty and pride of the Russian people
1947 Learn to defend your Motherland!
1948 Do not fool around!
1948 My student!
1950 Join mine-layers groups of the DOSARM!
1951 Do not chatter on the telephone!
1952 And every propeller is breathing the tranquility of our boarders!
1952 Keep the military and state secrets strictly!
1953 Be observant, sentinel!
1953 Be vigilant!
1953 Vigilance is our weapon. Be vigilant!
1954 We will help you ‘land’ if you forgot where borders are.
1954 We invite the nations for the peaceful conversation, but we will be able to resist any provocation
1954 Glory to the Soviet people – the creator of the strongest aviation
1954 In a letter home make sure not to share military secrets!
1954 No matter what they are might try — there is no other finish for a spy!
1954 Soviet soldier! Be vigilant!
1954 To fly above all, beyond all, faster than all
1958 Don’t chatter! Keep the military and state secret strictly!
1961 The enemy does not sleep … Be vigilant!
1970 Watch Your Back!
1984 The Sky Of The Homeland Is Protected Reliably!
1988 People And The Army Are One!
Anti-Capitalism:
1948 A talent’s way (in the countries of capitalism). A talent’s opportunity (in the country of socialism)!
1948 In the capitalist countries – lawlessness of labor! In the country of socialism – the right to work!
1948 Under capitalism … Under socialism!
1950 Who gets the national income?
1950 We demand peace!
1952 Phrases and …bases
1957 They are only for the welth of the rich. And we strive for the wealth of all of us
1981 The United States Constitution
1984 Myth and Reality
1985 No!
Solidarity for other nations:
1951 Let our indestructible friendship live and get stronger
1953 The Korean people won’t be subdued!
1958 Freedom of the Arabian people is not to be strangled!
1958 Stop the aggressor!
1963 Long live everlasting, indestructible friendship between Soviet and Cuban People
1964 I will never forget my friend if I met him in Moscow!
1965 Put the aggression in Vietnam to an end!
1966 No forgiveness to the aggressors!
Anti-Alcohol Campaign:
1954 No!
1958 And yet, they say we’re pigs…
1959 Eradicate this evil!
1959 Sweep your bad habits out!
1961 Not a single drop!
1966 Let’s drive out topers from the midst of workers.
Road Safety Guidelines:
Space Propaganda:
1957 Glory to the Soviet science!
1957 The era of propeller-driven airplanes must be followed by the era of jet airplanes or airplanes of the stratosphere
1958 Happy New Year, peace and friendship!
1960 Up to the space!
1961 Yuri Gagarin
1961 Glory to the first cosmonaut Y. A. Gagarin!
1963 Glory to Soviet cosmonauts!
1963 Vostok 5 and 6
1967 Our Women – Our Pride! (Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova)
1969 Sojuz-4 and Sojuz-5. Glory To The Heroes of Space!
1969 The Motherhood’s sky is calling us to storm the unseen heights!
1970 Interkosmos. A satellite of friendship and cooperation
1971 Space will serve the people … Gagarin
1972 Friendship
1972 “International Day of Cosmonautics. 12th April 1961. Yuri Gagarin in space. USSR
1976 Human Thought For World Progress
1976 12 April 1961 (Yuri Gagarin)
1978 USSR
Advertising:
1950 Circus. Irina Bougrimova, Lion Tamer
1950 The Cossacks of Kuban
1950 Chocolate sets. Red October Factory (Confectionery)
1951 Buy ice cream of Glavhladoprom
1951 Natural Citrus Juice
1952 Soft, pressed and pasteurized caviar
1952 Soviet champagne is the best grape wine
1952 The sturgeon species’ Caviar
1953 Hats made with felt
1954 Wine, vodka, liqueurs and other products you can buy at the stores of Potrebcooperation
1956 The Rumyantsev’s case
1958 The Idiot
1959 Fruit Kvass
1962 Nine Days in One Year
1962 The Girls
1964 Hamlet
1964 Muhtar, Come!
1964 The Case (Theater, Drama)
1965 Salted Pacific Herring
1965 Stolichnaya Vodka
1966 Beware of the Car
1966 Processed cheese for any taste
1968 Talents and Admirers by A. Ostrovsky (Theater, Comedy)
1969 Circus. Clown Yenghibarov
1970 White Sun of the Desert
1973 Ivan Vasilievich Changes His Profession
1975 Edith Piaf. Life and Work
1976 The Tale of how Tsar Petr Married Black Man
1979 Several days from Oblomov’s life
1980 The Dawns Here Are Quiet
1986 The Theme
1987 Forgotten Flute Melody
1988 Kill the Dragon
1988 Nostalghia
Anti-Communism:
1989 Collective Farming. 1929
Soviet Union Cold War Military Art Collection:
1959 Mikoyan-Gurevich MIG-21
Some interesting Col War related links:
Wikipedia article about Cold War
The Cold War Museum®
My other Cold War related material:
All Countries during Cold War
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