The true conditions in Russia during the establishment and rule of the great and terrible USSR, were not well known, even within the country itself, so people have long been drawn to anything that tells more about those times. Only for the past two decades has information, long repressed, become public. New histories are now published with frequency, and now, people can find out many things about Russia and the USSR. On the RESOURCES page of this site, there are links to some of the extensive information no
Yet, the posters on these pages are unique. During some of the years that Stalin controlled the USSR, and through at least 1952, the Stalin and USSR posters you can see here were some of those that hung on school hall walls and in other public places.
Some honor some of Russia’s favorite historical heroes.