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Soviet Yiddish propaganda poster “Wha-a-t? You are also with us not knowing?! Go to likpunkt (illiteracy liquidation station)!”, the late 1920s-early 1930s
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The poster - “Vo-o-s?! Du bist nokh mit undz nit bakant?! Gey in likpunkt!” (Wha-a-t? You are also with us not knowing?! Go to likpunkt [illiteracy liquidation station]!) in original Yiddish - depicts nine figures of USSR ethnic minorities, dressed in folk costumes, and a figure of Russian proletarian in the front, along the letters of alphabet” Cyrillic, Georgian, Armenian, Turkic, Hebrew, and Latin, against the industrial background. A part of propaganda campaign rallying support for the Liquidation of illiteracy policy (Likbez), started in 1917 and announced to be successfully completed in 1937. From 1923 to the early 1930s Likbez programs were offered in languages of the Soviet nationalities to partially reverse decades of Russification under the Russian Empire, and as a part of korenizatsiia (nativization) policy for the integration of non-Russian nationalities into the governments of their specific soviet republics. Published by Tsenroizdat (Central Publishing House for the USSR Peoples, 1924-1931) in the late 1920s-early 1930s in Moscow. Print run 2,000 copies. Price 25 kopeks.
Title: Soviet Yiddish propaganda poster “Wha-a-t? You are also with us not knowing?! Go to likpunkt (illiteracy liquidation station)!”, the late 1920s-early 1930s
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The poster - “Vo-o-s?! Du bist nokh mit undz nit bakant?! Gey in likpunkt!” (Wha-a-t? You are also with us not knowing?! Go to likpunkt [illiteracy liquidation station]!) in original Yiddish - depicts nine figures of USSR ethnic minorities, dressed in folk costumes, and a figure of Russian proletarian in the front, along the letters of alphabet” Cyrillic, Georgian, Armenian, Turkic, Hebrew, and Latin, against the industrial background.
A part of propaganda campaign rallying support for the Liquidation of illiteracy policy (Likbez), started in 1917 and announced to be successfully completed in 1937.
From 1923 to the early 1930s Likbez programs were offered in languages of the Soviet nationalities to partially reverse decades of Russification under the Russian Empire, and as a part of korenizatsiia (nativization) policy for the integration of non-Russian nationalities into the governments of their specific soviet republics.
Published by Tsenroizdat (Central Publishing House for the USSR Peoples, 1924-1931) in the late 1920s-early 1930s in Moscow.
Print run 2,000 copies.
Price 25 kopeks.
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