20 Soviet propaganda POSTERS romanticizing agriculture
Before the 1917 Revolution, Russia was primarily an agrarian country. The coup-d’état, the ensuing Civil War and the forced pace of industrialization in the country caused problems in the agricultural sector. Fields were abandoned, there was a lack of people to take care of the harvest, as they were massively leaving for big cities. All this caused a huge famine in the country, which made the Soviet authorities implement harsh methods and ration cards. It became clear that while forcing industrialization, they forgot about the essential thing - food.
So, it became extremely important to promote careful work on the field, development of virgin lands, taking care of harvest, as well as cattle and other animals. And more importantly - promote joining the collective farming system (kolkhoz), so that all the good went strictly to the state and not remained with private farmers.
1/ Comrade, join our kolkhoz!
2/ Not a single hectare of unseeded land!
3/ Kolkhoz and individual farmers! Give away bread to the state in time!
4/ Women in kolkhoz are a great power! J. Stalin.
5/ Sow in time - gather a mountain of grain
6/ Why is there a rich harvest? Because of mineral fertilizer.
7/ Collect harvest in time and without loses!
8/ Kolkhoz men and kolkhoz women! Strengthen Soviet people’s friendship through socialist labor!
9/ More pigs - more meat!
10/ If you have feed at the farm, cattle won’t be afraid of winter!
11/ If you feed animals right, they gain weight!
12/ More vegetables and fruits to Soviet cities and industrial centers!
13/ More sunflowers, more oil! (We will collect 3.7 million tons of sunflower oil in 1950)
14/ Good nursing - good calves!
15/ Golden harvest to the native land!
16/ Grow up corn! And compete for the highest harvest levels!
17/ Let’s get no less than 18-20 tons of potato from a hectare!
18/ Dairymaids, let’s achieve high milk yields from every forage cow!
19/ Cattleman, work hard and people will be thankful!
20/ Agriculture workers to the 22nd Congress of the Communist Party: We’ll glorify the fatherland with labor!
