That last one, though! Woo-hoo.
Friday 20 March 2015
SF Soviet Cigarettes
At the moment I'm reading Burgess's Honey for the Bears (1963), his lightly fictionalised account of the trip he and his wife took to the USSR in the early 60s. Enjoying it, too. One thing he notes is that Soviet cigarettes all sport space flight themes. So I did a quick google image search, and by gum he's right -- either space, or else weird phallic surrealism.
That last one, though! Woo-hoo.
That last one, though! Woo-hoo.
The first, third and fourth are all for the same brand, 'Cosmos' (the second is 'Sputnik'). I've had an interesting time with the last one - Google Translate gives me "smoke a pack of cigarettes - nowhere but in Mosselprom". Mosselprom turns out to be a government department store, and the slogan 'nowhere but in Mosselprom' was coined by Mayakovsky (!). Also, the word 'pack' is in quotes and can also mean 'wad', so it's more like "Smoke 'Wad' cigarettes". And now I can't think of a sentence without a double entendre, so I'll leave it there.
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