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Finding Number (Click this to view full catalogue structure)SOVIET POSTERS/785
TitleReason against religion (English translation of title of folder)
Extent12 items
Date1977
DescriptionFolder of 16 anti-religious posters (4 missing)

Russian transliteration of title of folder: Razum protiv religii

Editor: B. Starchikov

Technical editor: V. Artamonova

Publication information: Moscow / Plakat / 1977 / No.1d-284

Printing information: Dnepropetrovsk / Zorya

Print run: 40,000

Format: 70x50

Original price: 1 rouble 40 kop

Posters are as follows:

1. Nel'zya li utochnit', tvorets, kogda, / v kontse kontsov, konets? (Oh Great Creator, couldn't you be more precise about when the world will end?)
Verses: A. Karasev; S. Revzin
Artist: Boris Efimovich Efimov (1900-2008)
Additional information: Aimed at Jehovah's Witnesses

2. Svataya obyazannost' chestnykh lyudei - / spasti ot tserkovnogo mraka detei (The believers are trying to enslave them - / save our children from the darkness of the church)
Verses: A. Karasev; S. Revzin
Artist: V. Zharinov

3. Pereshagnite zloveshchuyu ten' - / k lyudyam, v kipuchii i radostnyi den'! (Step over that sinister shadow - / to join people in the joyful and happy daylight!)
Verses: B. Aleksandrov
Artist: Evgenii Borisovich Shcheglov (1927-1991)

4. Vrach pri pomoshchi nauki / Sotvoryaet chudesa... / Znakhar' lish' prilozhit ruki - / I otpravit v nebesa! (The proper doctor works miracles / with the aid of science. / The quack doctor takes your money / and sends you to heaven with poison!)
Verses: A. Vnukov
Artist: Konstantin Il'ich Nevler (1933- )

5. Svyaz' prervana! (We've been cut off!)
Artist: Boris Aleksandrovich Starchikov (1921-1999)

6. Tak i zhivet khanzha inoi / vsyu zhizn' mezh neboi i zemlei! (This is how the hypocrite lives / his whole life between heaven and earth!)
Verses: A. Vnukov
Artist: Anotolii Borisovich Tsvetkov (1923-1994)

7. Shit'e belymi nitkami (Sewing with white threads)
Artist: Igor Efimovich Sychev (1913- )

8. Ne Allakhu ugoden kalym, a mulle - / chtob ne khuze Allakha prozhit' na zemle... (The bride price does not gladden the heart of Allah, but that of the mullah - / So that he can live like Allah on earth)
Artist: Anatolii Mikhailovich Eliseev (1930- )

9. Sei muzh - uchenyi. No pri etom / on slepo verit vsem primetam... (This man is educated. But despite this / he blindly believes in all these signs of bad luck... )
Verses: S. Smirnov
Artist: Boris Aleksandrovich Starchikov (1921-1999)

10. Gnetsya rab pred bozh'ei siloi, / No vklyuchen ekran i - sha: / Vmesto 'Gospodi pomilyi!' / 'Sha-i bu!' trebuet dusha (He kneels in devotion to the holy icon / but keeps one eye on the TV screen: / So instead of praying 'Lord forgive me', / he is yelling for his team to get the puck)
Artist: Evgenii Aleksandrovich Shukaev (1932- )

11. Sobral tserkovnyi klam pizhon, / On novoi modoyu srazhen! / Na skol'zkii ty vstupaesh' put' - / Petleyu mozhet zatyanut' (When a silly nitwit came across some religious trash, / he took it up as the latest fashion! / But if you go down that slippery slope / the noose will tighten on you)
Verses: I. Kulieva
Artist: Konstantin Il'ich Nevler (1933- )

12. Tyurma dlya serdtsa i uma (The prison for heart and mind)
Artist: Yurii Andreevich Cherepanov (1922- )
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