A Daily Dose of Good Old Soviet Propoganda

We were able to head out to the best rinok (market, swap meet) in Moscow. This one was mostly a souvenir style place. It was pretty fun to walk around and see some of the matreshki dolls (the Russia Dolls that fit inside each other) and fun little nick nack stuff. The highlight of the experience was when we came across a huge section of Soviet era propaganda. It was fascinating. Of course, this time period was full of propaganda from all countries. America has some equally unique propaganda; however, due to people like Stalin and the great purge, their propaganda seemed to strike more fear-driven permanence. The time period called The Great Purge was astonishing. One of the most incredible Russian novellas coming out of this time period was from a Russian lady named Chukovskaya. She wrote a book called Sophia Petrovna. In this book, Sophia had a son who was a communist and loved the party, as did everyone else. Well, things starting crazy. People just started disappearing. And as people were disappearing, propaganda was also being distributed that warned of talking too much because spies were everywhere. Fear was instilled in people and panic was everywhere. Sophia Petrovna ended up having her son disappear. She spent every day in line waiting to talk to someone about what happened to her son. She then lost her best friend as well. As her reality became more and more unbelievable, she began changing her reality. She, as many others did as well, began to warp reality so that it became bearable. Anyways, feel free to read the book, it is incredible. The point I am getting to is that this mentality of keeping to yourself has bled through to later generations. Very interesting stuff...

Babbling (or speaking too much) helps the enemy!

This one on the right is my favorite. At the bottom it says, Don't babble away! At the top it says: Be on the alert, these days the walls are eavesdropping. Loose lips and rumors are not very far from being a traitor.
-In other words, be careful what you let slip from your mouth, because you do not know who is listening.

And as a comedic relief, we have the one below with a Russian woman holding a boob. Haha, it says: Are you taking care of your breasts? Wash your nipples daily with cold water.

The list goes on and on. The ones directed towards America were great. One had a picture of this demonic being wearing a kkk costume coming out of the Statue of Liberty holding a flame that had "racism" written underneath. Then underneath it said: "the inside of American freedom." Lots of capitalism stuff as well. Then I will end on my favorite ones. These ones blow me away. This went on during all the space races and stuff. Bold statements!

It says: We say the heavens inside and out. And not any gods or angels were discovered.

We traveled all around space; and, nowhere did we find god.
The little creepy robots smiling are great, haha.