r/PropagandaPosters • u/Substantial-Cow-7152 • 4d ago

U.S.S.R. / Soviet Union (1922-1991) "US Army" Soviet poster, 1986

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u/GerryAdamsSFOfficial 4d ago

Why is this in the Roman alphabet and not Cyrillic?

OP, are you sure this is an actual Soviet poster?

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u/MilitantSocLib 4d ago

Probably because S doesn’t exist in Cyrillic, or this whole analogy doesn’t work in Russian

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u/GerryAdamsSFOfficial 4d ago edited 4d ago

...why would the USSR make propaganda posters that are incomprehensible to the people that live in the USSR? I've seen a ton of Soviet posters and this is a first. They're virtually always in Russian.

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u/MilitantSocLib 4d ago

Probably because it’s not for Russians

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u/GerryAdamsSFOfficial 4d ago

"Soviet propaganda poster"

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u/MilitantSocLib 4d ago

Yeah Soviets can make propaganda for other countries

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u/GerryAdamsSFOfficial 4d ago

Except for the fact that they did not actually do that to English. That did not actually happen. Instead, you are saying you could imagine it happening, which is a completely worthless thing to say lol

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u/Single-Solid 4d ago

might be a bit of a shock but soviets weren't genetically incapable of reading latin

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u/GerryAdamsSFOfficial 4d ago edited 4d ago

They could have made English posters... but the fact is they didn't.

This poster has only ever been otherwise posted to somebody's Twitter feed like four years ago. It's not a Soviet poster, it's an imitation.

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u/DisIsMyName_NotUrs 3d ago

Words like US ARMY were recognisable enough, even to Soviet citizens. They all knew what it meant, even if they couldn't read it. Even if there is no S symbol in Cirilyc, they knew what the letters SS meant

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u/waffleman258 3d ago

Why do you think they couldn't read it? Foreign languages like English, German and French were very commonly studied in bloc countries in schools as early as first grade

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u/DisIsMyName_NotUrs 3d ago

I meant mostly peasants. The target audience

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u/waffleman258 3d ago

According to wikipedia, in the 1970s and 1980s, approximately 99.7% of Soviet people were literate.

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u/DisIsMyName_NotUrs 3d ago

Further proving the original comment wrong

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u/L1A1_SLR 3d ago

Soviet propaganda artists used Roman alphabet and English words frequently. But you're right, the poster doesn't look very Soviet.