Thanks to Ben Perry – an American living in Berlin, Germany, who is hooked with Flickr – you can browse through over 1400 propaganda posters from the Союз Советских Социалистических Республик.
The earlist works are from 1917, (five years before the USSR, to be axact) the latest from 1991. And you do not have to learn Cyrillic: Many of them are translated to English in the commentaries by Ben’s visitors.
One may discuss the ethical dimension of art that gets exploited for political reasons (on both sides of the iron curtain) but there is no doubt that some of these posters are incredible excellent works of graphic art.
See this vast collection on Flickr here or visit Ben Perry’s blog.
USSR Propaganda Posters
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