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The goal of capitalism is always the same: Exploitation, Oppression, War, so that poverty and death of the masses brings the largest profit!

Poster Number: PP 907
Media Size: 34.5x26.5
Poster Type: Offset
Publishing Date: 1953
Editorial Information: Editor E. Povolotskaia; Text Editor A. Bezymenskii
Technical Information on Poster: [Approved] 6 January 1953; Publication No. 10108; Size 1 large sheet; Order No. 1770. Price 1 ruble
Glavlit Directory Number: Sh 00208
Catalog Notes: Communist Culture b
Artist: Semenov, Ivan Maksimovich — Семенов, Иван Максимович
Printer: 3rd Krasnii Proletarii (Red Proletarian) Typography Workshop of Glavpoligrafizdat, Moscow — 3-я Типография Красный Пролетарий Главполиграфиздата при Совете Министров СССР, Москва
The Krasnii Proletarii Workshop originated under the ownership of Ivan Kushnerev, a Russian entrepreneur who founded the Kushnerev & Company Printing Shop in 1869 in Moscow. When Kushnerev died in 1896, his printing operation was one of the largest in Imperial Russia. In 1919, the printer was nationalized by the Soviets and consigned to the Printing Section of the Moscow Economic Council (MSNKh).) It later became the 3rd Krasnii Proletarii Book Printing Plant when its location (at 16 Pimenovskaia ...
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Publisher: Iskusstvo (Art Publishing House), Moscow — Искусство, Москва
Iskusstvo was the Art Publishing House (A.K.A. Visual Arts Publishing) that was created in 1936 from Ogiz-Izogiz (State Art and Literature Publishing House). It disseminated books and journals dealing with graphic design and the fine arts, and it issued numerous posters. Since the Iskusstvo banner was part of the State Printing Works in Leningrad (St. Petersburg) and Moscow, its two main offices were located in those two cities.
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