Soviet Advertising
Most of us have seen the famous Soviet political propaganda posters
… but I recently stumbled across a site that put up a lot of interesting Soviet advertising posters, that show the evil capitalist art of advertising was alive in the communist paradise:
Pelmeni (Russian Ravioli)
Buy Corn in a Can
Mayonnaise!
This last one worked beyond anyone’s wildest dreams. Russians eat everything with mayonnaise!
I actually have the first image on a t-shirt!!!
It’s pretty funny. People always make comments about it when I wear it… It’s an iron-on. I think you can get it online.
Many Soviet products, as well as advertising techniques, were copied from the West. Except that the quality of any consumer product rarely matched that in the West, which is why Soviet citizens were so crazy about imported things.
I remember when I was a kid, my mother’s friends would tell her that there was something “imported” (importnoye) being sold in some store, such as imported towels, and they would all rush out to buy it. Soviet citizens valued foreign products, even if they came from the Warsaw Pact states outside of USSR, because they were invariably of much higher quality.
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Comment by Aleks — November 16, 2008 @ 2:21 am
Otli4no . Russian Pelmeni serve with vinegar .
http://lexlibertas.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/d0bfd0b5d0bbd18cd0bcd0b5d0bdd0b8.jpg
Pamjanik of Jiaozi ( 饺子像 Jiaozi xiang)
http://www.panoramio.com/photo/4789286
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jiaozi
Comment by 哈哈 — November 18, 2008 @ 11:50 pm
Jiaozi does not even compare with pelmeni!
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