Collective farm / communist propaganda art

Signs, slogans, and monuments from the 70s still grace the Russian countryside. Although collective farms are likely to stay in one form or another, modern signs lack the innocence and naivete of the originals. Let me use this opportunity to publicly proclaim my appreciation of the Brezhnev era Russia as a period that combined medieval stability with industrial era comforts. Mosaics you find in provincial towns belong to the same style and will also be listed here.

Somewhere around Kashin while taking two travellers from Moscow to Tver via Sergiev Posad. February 2005

 
Brody ("river crossing", between Staritsa and Tver

[the whole image]

Mosaics

[from Tver]

Particularly outrageous phallic symbols and other secret desires trying to break loose.

[Border guard on Kotelnicheskaya, Lomonosov]

 

 

 

 

 

 

....a long time ago