These Soviet anti-alcohol posters offer a lurid view of communist history

In the USSR, alcoholism was an enormous problem, which the government tried to tackle with these incredible PSA posters. The messages in them will be familiar to anyone who has seen anti-drug posters in the United States -- but the style is distinctively Soviet.

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A detail of the picture above.

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(1958, N. Velezhneva, N. Kuzovkin)

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Scrap from left, vodka from right.

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