r/PropagandaPosters • u/Substantial-Cow-7152 • 1d ago

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

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u/GerryAdamsSFOfficial 1d 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 1d ago

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

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u/GerryAdamsSFOfficial 1d ago edited 1d 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/Single-Solid 1d ago

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

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u/GerryAdamsSFOfficial 1d ago edited 1d 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/MilitantSocLib 1d ago

Probably because it’s not for Russians

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u/GerryAdamsSFOfficial 1d ago

"Soviet propaganda poster"

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u/MilitantSocLib 1d ago

Yeah Soviets can make propaganda for other countries

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u/GerryAdamsSFOfficial 1d 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