Communist Propaganda of the 20th Century

Communist Propaganda of the 20th Century

propaganda - 'noun', information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote a political cause or point of view (Compact Oxford Dictionary).

Monday, March 28, 2016

Soviet Siberia (16)

Soviet Siberia by E. Klenov and G. Paderin. Hardcover book with pictorial boards (no dust jacket) published by Progress Publishers Moscow 1970, unpaginated with colour and black and white photographs.

Or he may put his powers to the test in of the practically unexplored regions of Eastern Siberia, where fabulous wealth may lie beneath the permafrost

Thursday, March 24, 2016

Viet-Nam

Viet-Nam, text by Nikolai Solntsev, photography by Victor Guinsbourg, Albert Lieberman, Evgueni Lomovski. Hardover book published by Editions Paneta Moscou and Editions Van Hoa Hanoi 1986. All text is in French.

La bicyclette est un mode de vie au Viet-nam.

On connait partout dans le pays le label de l'usine de bicyclettes de Hanoi (a droite).

Saturday, March 19, 2016

Podomju Latvija (Soviet Latvia) (5)

Podomju Latvija (Soviet Latvia). Hardcover book published by Riga Avots 1985, 215 pages with colour photographs throughout.

Employees of the VEF have kindergartens, pioneer-camps, the rest-house in Jurmala for 1000 people annually at their disposal. The enterprise has a hospital, a preventorium, a science and culture palace, a complex of sport facilities as well as a large public catering establishement with specialized pavilions, cafes and snack-bars

Saturday, March 12, 2016

New China (11)

New China. Hardcover book published by Foreign Languages Press 1953, unpaginated with black and white photographs. All text is in English.

The 1054-metre sluice gate is part of a vast project built in only 75 days in the middle reaches of the Yangtse River.

This project includes the sluice gate, a 336.6-metre regulator and a detention basin capable of containing five and a half billion cubic metres of water

Thousands of millions of cubic metres of flood waters have been harnessed in service of man. They will never again become a menace but will flow peacefully into cotton, rice and wheat fields, helping to produce bumper harvests

Water is now controlled and stored and turned into hundreds of thousands of kilowatts of electricity for factories and farms

Wednesday, March 9, 2016

Deutsche Demokratische Republik (31).

Deutsche Demokratische Republik.  Hardcover book published by Sachsenverlag Dresden 1959.  All text is in German.  There is a booklet with Russian, English, French and Spanish translations.

At the air-port Berlin-Schoenfeld

Streissen, a new quarter, is being built out of prefabricated pieces

Thursday, March 3, 2016

Podomju Latvija (Soviet Latvia) (4)

Podomju Latvija (Soviet Latvia). Hardcover book published by Riga Avots 1985, 215 pages with colour photographs throughout.

State farm “Riga” is among the 10 largest hot-house vegetable producers in the USSR (28.9 hectares of winter hot-houses and 7 hectares of plastic covered blocks.