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Classic Soviet Anti-Drinking Propaganda Posters
FlavorWire ^ | Wednesday Nov 23, 2011 | Marina Galperina

Posted on 11/25/2011 7:17:41 PM PST by nickcarraway

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To: Fester Chugabrew

I was surprised to find that every teenager in Europe smokes, at least the girls. Finally figured out why, though.

Some obscure arm of the Law patrols the streets checking to make sure all the teens are smoking. When they find a kid who doesn’t smoke, they dragoon her and send her to a re-education camp. After the tender attentions of the professional caregivers, she comes out smoking (for life, of course).

Being Socialist countries with State healthcare, they have to start them young so that they won’t clog up the already-overloaded medical facilities with all the complaints of an extended old age.


41 posted on 11/26/2011 3:43:45 AM PST by Erasmus (I love "The Raven," but then what do I know? I'm just a poetaster.)
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To: WorkingClassFilth
I once drove around in the boondocks stark naked shooting up road signs.

And I'll bet you did really stupid stuff when you were drunk.

≤}B^)

42 posted on 11/26/2011 3:46:05 AM PST by Erasmus (I love "The Raven," but then what do I know? I'm just a poetaster.)
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To: a fool in paradise

If he’s right-handed, and eating like a European, he cuts with the knife in the right hand while holding the meat down with the fork in the left.

Then without switching hands, as most of us would do, he simply keeps the fork with the cut morsel in his left hand and brings it to his mouth.


43 posted on 11/26/2011 3:51:44 AM PST by Erasmus (I love "The Raven," but then what do I know? I'm just a poetaster.)
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To: WorkingClassFilth

Teddy? I thought you passed.


44 posted on 11/26/2011 3:52:12 AM PST by Cvengr (Adversity in life and death is inevitable. Thru faith in Christ, stress is optional.)
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To: Erasmus

True. I’m now a tame, graying son of the soil. Saturday nights mean old movies and, sometimes, when things get really wild, a furious tourney of Spit.


45 posted on 11/26/2011 5:30:54 AM PST by WorkingClassFilth (Expiate your inner liberal racist guilt, but use your brain: Vote CAIN in 2012!)
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To: Erasmus

Here’s my favorite one of all:

What Fits Into Russia
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXqKkYYALMU&ob=av3e


46 posted on 11/26/2011 7:11:09 AM PST by dfwgator (I stand with Herman Cain.)
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To: 240B

I think that you are emblematic of the distinctions between Soviet communism and American capitalism. You have taken control of your life and used that initiative that is so innate to capitalism. Rather than waste money on the medical community, you have independently and accurately diagnosed your medical condition and have taken the requisite actions to alleviate it.

Whereas in the Soviet Union you would have waited for hours or days or months to see a doctor to get a quack remedy.

I applaud your assumption of personal responsibility!


47 posted on 11/26/2011 8:01:06 AM PST by bagman
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To: Tucker39
I remember the book by Victor Belenko. IIRC, he wrote that it was almost impossible to keep the MIG 25 supplied with alcohol need for some function or other, because it would be drunk instead. But if you want a better picture of how bad it is now catch a recent documentary with a cameo by Vladimir Putin, Wild Wild Beach (2006) by the Russian filmmaker Vitaly Mansky. It's unbelievable!
48 posted on 11/26/2011 10:12:51 AM PST by PUGACHEV
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To: jmacusa
"You know this is a crock. This “New Soviet Man’’ is wearing a Western-style suit, nice hair and he’s eating meat. The fact he’s even eating at all is a stretch, such as things were in the old Soviet Union."
Besides the Stalin's engineered famine in the 1930 (mostly Ukraine and a part of Southern Russia), the war and the immediate postwar years, things were not quite as bleak as you describe over there. I always cringe when conservatives propagate simplistic generalizations, makes us look like fools.
49 posted on 11/26/2011 3:59:47 PM PST by JadeEmperor
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To: nickcarraway

I post when I’m drunk


50 posted on 11/26/2011 4:38:54 PM PST by Gothmog (I fight for Xev)
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To: JadeEmperor

“Not so bad over there’’ Jeez Louise, if it were truly the ‘’workers paradise’’ they’d still be at it. You lived in the old Soviet Union , did you? Stalin was a monster, one of the greatest political mass murderers of all time. “Cosmopolitan’’. That’s the word I was looking for in regard to that propaganda poster. That dude was ‘’cosmopolitan’’ to the hilt. I wonder if who ever drew it was ‘’re-educated for that somewhere.


51 posted on 11/26/2011 7:30:04 PM PST by jmacusa (Political correctness is cultural Marxism. I'm not a Marxist.)
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To: nickcarraway


52 posted on 11/26/2011 7:55:14 PM PST by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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To: PUGACHEV

They used the alcohol to cool the brakes on the MiG25. The sled was so heavy it needed to land at higher speed and required more braking effort to get it stopped....part of the reason Belenko wound up running off the end of the runway at Kakodate when he defected. Thanks. I’ll check out your suggestion.


53 posted on 11/26/2011 7:56:06 PM PST by Tucker39
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To: nickcarraway

http://www.ote4estvo.ru/sovetskie-plakaty/267-sovetskie-antialkogolnye-plakaty.html


54 posted on 11/28/2011 4:34:01 AM PST by vertolet888
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To: nickcarraway

Thanks for posting!


55 posted on 11/28/2011 3:48:05 PM PST by philled (“If this creature is not stopped it could make its way to Novosibirsk!")
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To: nickcarraway
He got drunk, swore, smashed a tree

With what, his hand? Not too many soviets then and now have the luxury of owning a car........

56 posted on 11/28/2011 3:55:06 PM PST by Hot Tabasco (ue)
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