'Not A Drop!' Seven Decades Of Soviet Anti-Alcohol Posters

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'Not A Drop!' Seven Decades Of Soviet Anti-Alcohol Posters
January 01, 2020 12:26 GMT

    By RFE/RL

Get in the mood for a "dry January" with this selection of Soviet posters. From the 1920s to the 1980s, successive campaigns were launched to reduce alcohol consumption. They were not successful.

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3 The text on this 1929 poster reads: "Shame on those getting paid at the black cash desk!" This desk was where people seen as having violated work discipline were paid. The poster links alcohol abuse with low productivity, a big concern during the first Five-Year Plan.

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8 "Not a single drop!" The label on the bottle reads "Port wine." The poster is from 1961.


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15 This 1985 poster has tomato juice delivering a knockout blow to a bottle of vodka. In 1985, Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev announced a large-scale anti-alcohol campaign with partial alcohol prohibition, also known as the "dry law." Prices of alcohol went up and sales were severely restricted.

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