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"Fulfill and exceed the new five-year plan! More bread for the country!"
The Soviet Union's Five-Year Plan (1946–1950) focused on rebuilding the nation's industry after World War II. Among its goals was the repair of war-damaged infrastructure, re-conversion of factories for civilian use, and re-building the military that was decimated by 1945. Known as the Fourth Five-Year Plan, it also relied on boosting investment and uprooting natural resources from Soviet-occupied areas of Eastern Europe. While the economic plan led to longer work hours and poor living standards, the Soviets were used to austerity and deprivation and so toiling was simply a continuation of their war-time life without the threat of war.
In the nation's agricultural sector, post-war food shortages and supply issues plagued the nation into the mid-1950s. Additionally, the slow restoration of agriculture, detrimental policies towards food reserves, and the severe drought of 1946, all culminated into a famine that lasted until 1947.
This poster was designed by the artist Vladimir Petrovich Dobrovol'skii.
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Poster Plakat is a private collection of Soviet and Eastern Bloc political ephemera spanning 1916 to 1991. The collection contains over 1,000 original posters and poster maquettes. Sizes range from windowpane posters up to large, multi-panel broadsides. Numerous artists are represented such as Gustav Klutsis, Victor Deni, Nikolai Dolgorukov, Vladimir Stenberg, the Kukryniksy, Viktor Koretsky, and hundreds more. All posters are linen backed and ready for display.
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