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Posters from Stalin’s Soviet Union Luring Foreign Tourists

2 Comments · Posted by Sergei Rzhevsky in Art, History, Travel

It is widely believed that Stalin’s Soviet Union was a country almost completely closed to foreigners. However, advertising for “Intourist” (the organization responsible for foreign tourism in the USSR), founded in the 1930s, offers a somewhat different assessment.

The country desperately needed foreign currency for industrialization, so every means possible was used to attract wealthy foreign tourists to the USSR. And this wasn’t limited to the major cities of Moscow and Leningrad.

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You can see invitations to visit almost every interesting place in the USSR: theater festivals, river cruises, Russian hunting trips, large-scale construction projects. These posters were made to create an image of the pre-war Soviet Union as a “paradise on earth.”

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2 comments

  • Sara · November 20, 2014 at 6:22 pm

    These are beautiful. I wish the images were big enough to print.

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  • bill · October 3, 2023 at 3:54 pm

    indeed my good sir/lady/they/them!!!

    Reply

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