PP 439 | Poster Plakat

[At top] "Machinery together with the people who created it can and must work miracles". -Stalin. [At center] "Life has become better, comrades, life has become happier… " [Bottom text] We will struggle for a flowering Soviet Socialist Moldavia... [partial translation].

**Poster Number:** PP 439

**Category:** Stalin

**Poster Notes:** The Stakhanov movement propagated the use of high speed production workers and was based on the exploits of Soviet coal miner Alexei Stakhanov (1906-1977); Josef Stalin's quote, "Life has become better, comrades", comes from the First All-Union Conference of Stakhanovites in November 1935 held in Moscow; [On flag] For 7-8 billion poods [measurements] of bread.

**Media Size:** 36.5x32.5

**Poster Type:** Lithograph and Offset

**Publishing Date:** c.1936

**Editorial Information:** Editor Marmor; Text Editor Dobromins'kii.

**Technical Information on Poster:** Mis'klit No. 1004; Typography Workshop “Molddruk” Order No. 362; Price 1 karb.

**Print Run:** 2,000

**Catalog Notes:** PP 439 Stalin b

**USSR Region:** Moldavian SSR

**Language:** Moldavian

Artist: Goldman — Гольдман

Publisher: Moldavia State Publishing House — Государственное издательство Молдавии

The Moldavia (Moldovan) State Publishing House was formed after 1940. Its offices were based in the capital city of Chişinău (Kishinev) and in Bacău. The Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic was the first state in history formed on the basis of nationality, a term used by the Soviet Union at the time. The republic was formed in August 1940 by combining Bessarabia (a historical region in Eastern Europe) with parts of the former Moldavian Autonomous Rep...

[At top] "Machinery together with the people who created it can and must work miracles". -Stalin. [At center] "Life has become better, comrades, life has become happier… " [Bottom text] We will struggle for a flowering Soviet Socialist Moldavia... [partial translation].