Propaganda Art & Cosmic Women's day

Part 2 of Soviet Space Art, now with Cosmic Women's Day cards.

Welcome to a second post covering propaganda posters with a space theme. I also recently found that there was a distinct theme of space cards to celebrate International Women’s Day. (Seagulls are often featured!).

The selection this time around features many posters that are no so well known.

Most of these pictures have been enlarged and cleaned using AI software. I’m using computer translation, so it won’t be perfect. As usual, click on an image to see a full sized version.

We are waiting for a response to our peaceful call, no room for space weapons!

This one was new to me, a call for the peaceful use of space. (Which hardly matches the actions of the USSR).

Vostok spacecraft, and Sputnik 1 with “Peace to the World”

The creative powers of Socialism are limitless! (With Luna 3).

October Country - The home of Cosmonautics! (Not sure of this translation?)

Forwards and Upwards!

Glory to the Heroes of Space, Glory to the Soviet People!

Let’s build paths to distant worlds, and let’s penetrate the secrets of the Universe!

For the glory of Communism!

I’m not sure of the significance of the date 2 January 1959?

“Soviet” means Excellence!

And that last one leads me nicely into the art for International Women’s Day. Not all is propaganda, some is for greetings cards.

Happy March 8th!

An unlikely combination of flowers and a weather satellite!

8th March. And a young cosmonaut gives a girl a star.

“Happy Holiday!”

Happy Holiday - and the label on the rocket is “Seagull”. Many of you will know why!

Another seagull reference…

This one specifically references Vostok 6, the flight of Valentina Tereshkova, Who had the callsign of “Chaika”, meaning seagull.

Portrait of Valentina Tereshkova, and the date for international women’s day.

For the holiday on 8th March.

This edition’s cool visual:

A short video, by me, showing the 19k 21k proposal for a crewed Moon landing, taking the whole shebang down to the surface to avoid docking in Lunar Orbit!

This edition’s cool link:

RGANTD Online exhibition about Alexei Leonov’s spacewalk. (In English)

This edition’s 1 week download:

The previous download, a bundle of back issues of the Russian space magazine “Novosti Kosmonavtiki”, went down well, so here’s some more. All 12 issues from the year 2008. As usual the download link will only work for one week. If you miss it, it’s gone.

All 12 issues from 2008.

That’s all folks!