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The poster was released in 1929, in the beginning year of the fight against alcoholism of 1929-1930. It was created by I. Yang and A. Chernomyrdik.
On the dark background of the poster, closer to the top, there is a face of a drunkard. His hands pouring vodka from a bottle into a shot glass. Below the man is his factory, and vodka he spills is heavily raining on it. The poem with white letters on blue:
In a small glass
in this one
may sink
a huge factory
The bottom slogan on the poster is in a form of poem, created by V. Mayakovskiy in 1929:
“From the union of working people,
(we) will expel(kick out) drinkers!”
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