Relive The Cold War With These 25 Communist Propaganda Posters

Publish date: 2024-06-22

Art is a site of cultural transformation. These communist propaganda posters take you back to one of the biggest movements in history.

Communist Propaganda Posters

Burov: “We march for integration.” Source: Huffington Post

The Russian avant-garde movement was more than just a faction of the art scene; it linked the Soviet working class and the Communist Party and served as a site of cultural transformation.

1930s Soviet Union Poster 1930s: “For the Industrial Plan; for completing a five-year plan in only four; against religion." Long Live The Socialist Revolution "Long live the socialist revolution!" Beautiful Communist Posters Workers Of The World Russian Revolution Posters 1920: “Vrangel is next on line." (Vrangel was a commanding general in the Russian Civil War.) Communist Posters Sun Growth 1920: “The organization of consumer cooperatives strengthens the Red Army.” Source: Huffington Post Follow The True Path Comrades 1920s: “Follow the true path, comrades!” Communist Propaganda Posters From The Cold War 1970s art by Boris Parmeev: “We grow under the sun of our country.” Propaganda Posters From The Soviet Union Communist Posters Worker Alert 1970s: “We are in solidarity with you, Vietnam!” Source: Huffington Post Avant Garde Soviet Posters 1930: Poster from Gustav Klutsis: “With great labor we will fulfill the plan.” Source: Huffington Post Communist Posters Socialist Revolution 1920s: “All power to the Soviets. Peace to the People. Land to the peasants.” Source: Huffington Post With Guns We Will Defeat The Enemy 1920s: “With guns we will defeat the enemy, with hard work we will have bread. To work, comrades!” Soviet Union Posters 1920s: “Long live the 3rd Communist International – from a red October to a world revolution.” Collective Farm Poster 1931: “Come to us on the collective farm, comrade!" Komsomol 1930’s: “Komsomol is the shock brigade of the five year plan.” (Komsomol are communist youth) Source: Huffington Post Lenin Engels And Marx Communist Poster 1960. “Forward, to the victory of communism!” Poster features Lenin, Engels and Marx. Death To Capitalism 1919: "Death to capital, or death under the heel of capitalism!" Source: Huffington Post Communist Posters Proletarians Communist Posters Military Technology 1950: “Soldiers! History requires excellent knowledge of military technology.” Source: Huffington Post Ten Commandments Of The Proletariat 1930: “The Ten Commandments of the Proletariat.” World War 2 Soviet Union Posters World War II: "The Motherland Calls" Communist Propaganda Posters From The 1930s 1930s: "Communist Youth, to tractors! Into the shock troops of the spring harvest!" Communist Posters Russian Revolution The Russian Revolution: “Have you signed up with the volunteers?” Source: Huffington Post

It didn’t stop at posters. All facets of media were used as political tools to install kitschy hope and pride into societal bloodstreams.

When paired with an educational system that would indoctrinate and form a “new-man” to embody the Soviet cause, it seemed that the Soviet propaganda machine--and by extension, the Soviets--was unstoppable.

Said one schooling theorist,

“We must make the young into a generation of Communists. Children, like soft wax, are very malleable and they should be moulded into good Communists... We must rescue children from the harmful influence of the family... We must nationalize them. From the earliest days of their little lives, they must find themselves under the beneficent influence of Communist schools... To oblige the mother to give her child to the Soviet state – that is our task."

After seeing these beautiful Communist propaganda posters from the Soviet Union, see our other posts of vintage Soviet propaganda posters and stunning photographs of China before communism.

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