'Not A Drop!' Seven Decades Of Soviet Anti-Alcohol Posters (5 pics from set)

[rpannier]

A Soviet anti-alcohol poster from 1930. The text exhorts people to "smash" alcohol, describing it as "the enemy of the cultural revolution."



A poster from 1929. A child changes the word "Spirit" into "Sport." In 1929, the Soviet government ordered a massive closure of beer stalls and other places selling alcohol.



"And they say that we are pigs..." Another poster from 1958.



A poster from 1959 warns that foreign spies are hunting for hard drinkers.



"A shameful union -- a slacker and vodka!" This poster was issued in Ukraine in 1981


https://www.rferl.org/a/soviet-anti-alcohol-posters/30336174.html

[hatrack]

1. And 7 decades later, they're still not working . . .

OTOH, at least some artists and designers got work, so there's that.