Alcohol Destroys Life
1989
Designer
Designer Unknown
Publisher
Plakat Moscow
DIMENSIONS
17 3/4 x 11 1/2 in. (45.1 x 29.2 cm)
OBJECT NUMBER
PH.8236
COUNTRY OF ORIGIN
Russia
CREDIT LINE
Poster House Permanent Collection
KEYWORDS
Alcohol, Food, Health and Safety, Liquor, Man, Propaganda, Soviet
Between 1983 and 1984 (the two years before Gorbachev opened his anti-alcohol campaign), nationwide deaths in Russia increased by 4 and 5.6 percent. This poster visually represents how the outsize role of alcohol in someone’s life could literally crush them.
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