USSR Economy vs England West Germany USA

£350.00

Original vintage Soviet propaganda poster glorifying the economical state of the Soviet Union featuring a poem by A. Zharov - Тверд экономики нашей шаг: темп нарастает, к рекорду близясь. А там на пути - за зигзагом зигзаг: спад, безработица, кризис / Our economy's stride is firm: the pace is growing, approaching a record. And there on the way - zigzag after zigzag: recession, unemployment, crisis. The text in black and red above an image of a modern red train labeled USSR Economy and XXIV CPSU meeting with a hammer and sickle symbol and a light shining ahead on a thick red diagonal line, and a muddled caricature below depicting Englishmen on a lion drawn carriage marked British Economy with a Union Jack flag on the side and crown on top with £ pound coin signs on the wheels, a German on a motorcycle with DM as the back wheel and circular saw as the front wheel, and Americans in a car with a Statue of Liberty on the front and $ dollar signs as wheels loaded with weapons in the open boot and a soldier holding an A atom bomb out of the window, a mafia style bandit holding a gun in the trailer marked Inflation with the letters US on the wheels, all driving on jagged black arrows on a grey background depicting the economic growth and decline of the western countries as erratic downward peaks, the caption below reads - To double the volume of industrial production it took the USA 18 years, England 22 years, Germany more than 11 years, and the USSR 8.5 years (Data for the latest period, including 1970). Horizontal. Good condition, creasing, tears.

Country Russia
Year 1971
Artist A. Vyaznikov, V. Fomichev
Width (cm) 85
Height (cm) 59
Linen backed? No
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