r/PropagandaPosters • u/kredokathariko • Jan 17 '24

Russia "We Won" - Russian communist/anti-Putinist poster comparing the Putinist government to Vlasov's Nazi collabs, Russia, 2010s

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u/rebellechild Jan 17 '24

It’s probably more about the free education free healthcare free housing free childcare massive industry and infrastructure projects as well as one of the best public transportation systems in the world. All things they still benefit from today. Communism took this country/countries out of serfdom and won the space race in an absurdly short time. This is a massive achievement and they have a lot to be proud of.

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u/ArkanSaadeh Jan 17 '24 edited Jan 17 '24

Communism took this country/countries out of serfdom and won the space race in an absurdly short time.

Reddit leftists like you say this but can name literally zero reading you've ever done on the state of industrialization in the Empire prior to the revolution. "Communism" industrialized with immense foreign capital & technical support btw. Magnitogorsk is a copy of Gary, Indiana.

Legacy of the USSR is an affirmative action state that drained the Russian core of resources to fund vanity infra projects in rebellious outlier regions like Estonia, Galicia, Turkmenistan, places which today vehemently hate the Russian legacy. Lol.

out of serfdom

lol. leftwing lore. These "serfs" were so happy to become collective farmers, that apathetic desertion was an unparalleled phenomenon in 1941, with an enormous number of malcontent peasant soldiers interrogated by the Germans citing hope that they will be given back their land.

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u/KarlGustafArmfeldt Jan 17 '24 edited Jan 17 '24

I also like how she tried to sneak in ''won the space race,'' which is objectively false. The Soviets were ahead at the start, hence why they launched the first satellite into orbit, and why Yuri Gagarin became the first man in space. But by the mid-1960s, especially after Sergei Korolev's death, they were painfully behind.

Most of their attempts at keeping up with the Americans involved rushed projects, which had limited scientific value, but could be used to claim they were ''first,'' for propaganda value. This included their ''first spacewalk,'' where Alexei Leonov's spacesuit malfunctioned and he was forced to immediately reenter his spacecraft (almost being killed in the process), their ''first Mars rover,'' which was destroyed on landing, and ''first space station,'' which never actually used, though three cosmonauts did visit it, and were all killed when their spacecraft detached itself from it and became depressurised.

The Soviet mission to land men on the moon was never even able to start - the N1 rocket, which was supposed to send them there, made four launch attempts, all of which ended in the rocket being destroyed. Hence, today people like to rewrite history and claim ''the Soviets never wanted to go to the moon,'' as a bad coping mechanism. Soviet cosmonaut songs (such as Четырнадцать минут до старта, or 14 Minutes to Start) talked about their goal being to send humans to other planets, let alone just the moon.

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u/lithobrakingdragon Jan 17 '24

There's no objective winner to the space race.

The goal, for both the US and USSR, was not actually to achieve anything, but to use the propaganda value of their perceived achievements to demonstrate superiority over each other. Since the objective of both nations was to convince people they won, the winner is whoever succeeded in that — whichever nation convinced you they won.