Get in the mood for Dry January with this selection of Soviet posters. From the 1920s to 1980s, successive campaigns were launched to reduce alcohol consumption. They were not successful.
"Not A Drop!" -- Seven Decades Of Soviet Anti-Alcohol Posters
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"And they say that we are pigs..." Another poster from 1958.
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"No entry for alcohol on the path to a healthy life." Some 30,000 copies were made of this 1959 poster, published by the Institute of Health Education.
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A poster from 1959 warns that foreign spies are hunting for hard drinkers.
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"Not a single drop!" The label on the bottle reads "Port wine." The poster is from 1961.