By the early 1980s, alcohol abuse was widely recognized as a major cause of death, absenteeism, and low labor productivity in the Soviet Union – an issue which the government tried to fight with various anti-alcohol campaigns. Here are 21 incredible posters from those years along with their translated captions:
Bartered
Stop, before it’s too late
Harmful to health, family and offspring
Vodka entails
We shall overcome drunkenness
Had a shot, had two
Alcohol
Alcoholism
Stop drunkenness
It also happens
