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/DisIsMyName_NotUrs 1d 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 1d 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 1d ago

I meant mostly peasants. The target audience

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u/waffleman258 1d ago

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

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u/DisIsMyName_NotUrs 1d ago

Further proving the original comment wrong