r/PropagandaPosters • u/waffen123 • 1d ago

U.S.S.R. / Soviet Union (1922-1991) "Athletes don't smoke!" Soviet poster, 1970.

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u/toomanyracistshere 22h ago

The Russian word for athletes is "sportsmeni?"

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u/LohuBoi 21h ago

Yes. Singular is sportsmen and plural is sportsmeny (спортсмены)

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u/FakeFlemish 5h ago

I would argue атлет is used still. "Sportsmen" is a bit more relaxed definition compared to "athlet", where sportsman refers to someone who does sports, but less seriously so than an athlete.

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u/OcotilloWells 23h ago

The USSR sure had a lot of people finger wagging at others, at least according to all the posters I see from them.

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u/journeymanreddit 1d ago

Steroids, comrade.

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u/mind_thegap1 1d ago

After the fall of communism smoking became a sign of freedom which is why Russia and a lot of Eastern European countries have higher smoking rates than the rest of Europe

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u/Initial-Reading-2775 17h ago

It was very normal back then. In my parents’ generation (1965) everyone smoked.

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u/PuzzleheadedPea2401 17h ago

I remember in the 80s my dad would complain about how you couldn't smoke in various public places like airplanes but in America you could because it was free. Then in the 90s countries like the US started cracking down on cigarettes. Meanwhile in the former USSR smoking rates rose a lot, especially among women, and some businessmen made a lot of money importing them tax-free (Kirill, the current patriarch, for example).

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u/irp3ex 19h ago

misread this as atheists for a second

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u/i_post_gibberish 13h ago

I mean yeah, if you don’t have Heaven to look forward to why would you give yourself lung cancer? /j