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Marketers of the World Unite!
V isn't just for vendetta-it also stands for the variety of vintage Soviet propaganda posters that marketers are co-opting to give a borscht-y boost to brands.
Devised during the 1917-21 Bolshevik revolution, propaganda posters played a prime role in selling Vladimir Lenin's vision to a largely illiterate population of peasants. A decade later (192832), Joseph Stalin tweaked the culture's prominent Constructivist style to incorporate images that represented Social Realism and promoted his Five-Year Plan to...