The slogans of the USSR and their propaganda significance

In the first years of Soviet power, the party was tasked with eliminating illiteracy. For the period of its implementation, the role of the enlightener of the broad masses of the people was to be taken over by visual agitation material. As a rule, it was a bright picture, printed on paper and provided with intelligible text. To ensure that those who have not yet mastered the grammar in perfection are not overextended, the letters should have been smaller.

After the formation of the Soviet Union in 1922, posters did not lose their propaganda significance, although the majority of the population learned to read with time. The slogans of the USSR multiplied, they were invented in such a way that at least one suitable one was found for every life situation. The most important, about the proletarians, who must necessarily unite on a world scale, printed on the money and in the subtitles of almost all newspapers, daily. That people do not forget about the main goal.

But it only seems that it is very easy to compose slogans. The USSR was a very politicized country, and any inaccuracy in the wording could lead to extremely regrettable consequences for the author of the dictum. For the ideological correctness of every newspaper line - not that the printed propaganda material published in huge editions - was watched by an army of trained censors who knew perfectly well that the line of the party sometimes fluctuated and it was necessary to change the direction of the movement in a timely manner.

The first bright objects, which attracted attention came to our country a foreigner, there were slogans. The USSR was wrapped in a bum, especially on holidays. The meaning of some texts was difficult to understand without some preparation. For example, a very long quote from a single Leninist opus, written on a red background in white letters, explained that the newspaper can not be regarded only as an agitator. She is also a propagandist. But also it is not enough of it, such prosaic everyday subject in cost in 2 copecks, it appears, also the collective organizer.

The other slogans of the USSR were laconic, they sometimes simply listed the main values that the people were inspired to - such as Lenin, the Party and the Komsomol. Or "peace", "labor" and "May", to which wits were orally added a few more months, so that there was not enough.

Sometimes from the speech of the next general secretary some quote was chosen, in which, as a rule, there was no more meaning than in any appeal to "improve everything" or "multiply" anything, and was printed next to the image of the leader who uttered this wisdom.

There is a certain continuity, which was followed by Soviet slogans and posters. The USSR was a country of scientific atheism, but the methodological approach itself was borrowed from the church. Banners in the May Day or November demonstrations performed the same role as the banners in the procession of the procession, the images of the leaders should have been as earnest as the holy faces, and the relics were located directly on the main square of the country.

The similarity ended in the completely devoid of the scientific-materialistic approach, the assertion that a man who died several decades ago will be livelier than all those present and absent at this event, taken together.

The subjects of the Soviet agitprop were varied. Children were urged to brush their teeth and be vigilant, like Pavlik Morozov. Adults were asked to keep money in the savings bank and also do not talk too much, so as not to become a find for the spy. The slogans of the USSR deserve special attention. The statement of the inevitability of coming to the victory of communist labor was coupled with the promise to fulfill the plan ahead of schedule, no matter what, specific or so, in general.

The labor artels were most often engaged in the production of visual agitation, for which this business, despite the prohibition of private enterprise, served as a source of good income. Each enterprise - agricultural or industrial - was obliged to spend a certain part of its self-financing profit on banners, posters, slogans and other tinsel, designed to create the illusion of a forward movement towards communism. It did not turn out very ...