Evidently, a real poster (aimed at US train passengers)

Galvatron · Post by **Galvatron** » 2005-06-07 04:31pm

Found here...

All that's missing is the hammer and sickle.

KowaiYukiDono · Post by **KowaiYukiDono** » 2005-06-07 04:42pm

Oh. MY GODS.

And that's all I gotta' say about that.

Post by **Surlethe** » 2005-06-07 04:53pm

Galvatron wrote:All that's missing is the hammer and sickle.

Someone ought to photoshop a hammer and sickle onto that image.

Chmee · Post by **Chmee** » 2005-06-07 05:02pm

Hm, maybe somebody with a better art education than mine can tell us, is that style more properly called Constructivist or Modernist or ... what?

Anyway, it's hardly a style restricted to Soviet propaganda, it was quite influential on period art and other poster styles:

America's Answer, 1941

Galvatron · Post by **Galvatron** » 2005-06-07 05:09pm

It's the style and colors combined with the message that I find so Sovietesque.

Haminal10 · Post by **Haminal10** » 2005-06-07 05:13pm

I think that that is the new poster that is used on the MARC trains (the communter train for Maryland)

Col. Crackpot · Post by **Col. Crackpot** » 2005-06-07 05:20pm

Chmee is right.... Neckties and other bourgeois nonsense have no place in Soviet propeganda.

Laughing Mechanicus · Post by **Laughing Mechanicus** » 2005-06-07 06:05pm

And as was written, it is done:

SPOOFE · Post by **SPOOFE** » 2005-06-07 06:36pm

Heh, the reverse E is a brilliant touch.

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2005-06-07 06:54pm

Heh, both posters are rather cool.

Galvatron · Post by **Galvatron** » 2005-06-07 07:22pm

Nice. Mind if I show that around?

Zor · Post by **Zor** » 2005-06-07 07:36pm

Cues Hymn of the Soviet Union

Zor

Post by **Mr Bean** » 2005-06-07 07:40pm

Galvatron wrote:Nice. Mind if I show that around?

These are in Maryland? God soon as I get stateside I need to get some pictures of this.
Are they in the terminal building or outside?

Zed Snardbody · Post by **Zed Snardbody** » 2005-06-07 07:45pm

I could have sworn I've seen a nazi poster just like that....

Galvatron · Post by **Galvatron** » 2005-06-07 07:51pm

Zor wrote:Cues Hymn of the Soviet Union

Indeed

Galvatron · Post by **Galvatron** » 2005-06-07 11:26pm

Apparently, this one was sighted in London...

The Grim Squeaker · Post by **The Grim Squeaker** » 2005-06-08 12:08am

The propaganda posters my mum got from vietnam this year are more subtle than this.

Boyish-Tigerlilly · Post by **Boyish-Tigerlilly** » 2005-06-08 02:01am

I have to say I really like the art and design, despite the intention. It seems similiar in some way to how people are drawn in the art deco period from 1910-39.

It's also pretty similar to the people on the cover of Aryn Rand Books.

Post by **haas mark** » 2005-06-08 06:13am

Galvatron wrote:Apparently, this one was sighted in London...

Definitely Big Brother-ish, as the image name would say. Heh.

The Grim Squeaker · Post by **The Grim Squeaker** » 2005-06-08 06:15am

"Eye in the sky, your eyes hypnotize", how did that old song go?

Flakin · Post by **Flakin** » 2005-06-08 08:01am

<Slashdot> "In SOVIET RUSSIA, Trains Ride YOU!" </slashdot>

Sorry.

HemlockGrey · Post by **HemlockGrey** » 2005-06-08 08:05am

Still nowhere near as creepy as the former logo for the Information Awareness office:

Faabio · Post by **Faabio** » 2005-06-08 11:52am

Nice posters all of them. and i would like to have that Information awareness office logo on my wall

Anymore sightings of posters like these?

Stormbringer · Post by **Stormbringer** » 2005-06-08 01:26pm

Chmee wrote:Hm, maybe somebody with a better art education than mine can tell us, is that style more properly called Constructivist or Modernist or ... what?

Anyway, it's hardly a style restricted to Soviet propaganda, it was quite influential on period art and other poster styles:

America's Answer, 1941

It would probably be Modernist, though the America's Answer one is closer to the orginal style than today's offspring.

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