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Pravda - Sputnik.jpeg
Image from the front page of Pravda newspaper, published two days after the Sputnik Satellite was launched.

Alcohol Affects the Family.jpeg
Image of a baby on one side and a bottle of Vodka on the other side. The caption translates to: "Either Or"

The propaganda poster is implying that life is a choice between alcohol and family; both cannot coexist. One cannot be a good family member…

Alcohol Causes crime.jpeg
The propaganda imagery shows a young child evolving into a rowdy criminal as he drinks more and more.

Translation of the text reads: “LITTLE BY LITTLE, AND YOU END UP WITH A HOOLIGAN. TOLERANCE OF DRINKING IS DANGEROUS. THERE IS BUT A STEP FROM…

Prohibition Campaign.jpeg
Image is of a red-faced man dancing with a bottle of alcohol. The text translates to: "This is a shameful union - a slacker + vodka!"

Perestroika.jpeg
The Soviet Government in the late 1980s begins to endorse the program of perestroika. This propaganda imagery asks Soviet citizens to be active, creative, bold and competent.

Translation: “The policy is acceleration–perestroika–to work actively,…

Space Race - Cosmonaut.jpeg
During the Cold War Space Race, the Soviet Union was showing their superiority over the west with its space technology.

The image is of four Soviet cosmonauts. Above them is the word KCCR for "Communist Party of the Soviet Union" and the bottom…

Nuclear Power.jpeg
The image is from the main state-controlled newspaper in the USSR. It was used as a way to defend Soviet nuclear weapons to defend the USSR, and to establish the Soviet Union's power over United States' security.

Translation says: "Comrade J.V…

Red Army.jpeg
The context of the image is to state that the Red Army is for peace, and is protecting the dove from the Western (hateful and evil) forces.

The men in suits at the bottom of the image represent the American side. One man is holding a paper that…

Space Race Propaganda.jpeg
Translation: “Glory! To the Soviet people, pioneers of the cosmos!”

It is an image of a cosmonaut brandishing the Soviet hammer and sickle. Each of the red stars resembles one of the Vostok Space Missions.

The Space Race was one of the many…

American soldiers examining aerial photographs in the battle of Iwo Jima
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