r/PropagandaPosters • u/waffen123 • 1d ago
U.S.S.R. / Soviet Union (1922-1991) "Economic sanctions against the USSR", soviet cartoon from the year 1982
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u/Hojas_ST 1d ago
I find this one ironic because economic failures is one of the reasons why the USSR fell
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u/HugiTheBot 1d ago
The was barely affected by the Great Depression because it wasn’t as connected to the world economy. Assuming this plays on the same thing.
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u/dQw4w9WgXcQ____ 1d ago
Yeah, instead it had a very funny little industrialisation that definitely didn't result in deaths of millions due to starvation
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u/Comfortable-Head-592 17h ago
The main reason for the collapse of the USSR was the degradation of the ruling quasi-class. In the USА it's called the "deep state". One smart person said it this way: "There are many Party members - but the Bolsheviks are gone."
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u/Koino_ 15h ago
There were many reasons, one of them as you already pointed out was that nobody even at the top or bottom genuinely held communist ideological beliefs, but one shouldn't ignore economic and societal pressures as well, that for long time were unaddressed and ultimately boiled over especially when it comes to national question. Add on top of it unimaginable levels of corruption at nearly every level (without blat) one just couldn't survive) and the fall shouldn't be surprising.
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u/Comfortable-Head-592 15h ago
It's good that there is no "blat" and corruption in the United States and Great Britain. Any citizen can enter a prestigious university, become the head of a large corporation, peer or senator (or king).
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u/Koino_ 15h ago
While I recognize what you mean, I really think you would be shocked by the levels of corruption that existed USSR. Stealing from ones workplace was a rule, not an exception. The only modern comparable examples would probably only be found in few poor African states.
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u/Comfortable-Head-592 13h ago
Why are you telling me about the USSR? I already remember everything.
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u/Adventurous_Buyer187 1d ago
I find deeper meaning in the fact that these propagandas are actually aimed for the citizens of the home country, in this case USSR.
Not only they try to show force and resilience to the sanctions, but they also try to portrait the sanctions as something new, as if by now the USA hadnt been sanctioning the USSR and any previous economic struggle was internal only.
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u/FobosR1 1d ago
Isnt this obvious?
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u/Adventurous_Buyer187 1d ago
I dont think its obvious that the sanctions are portrayed as something new
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