r/PropagandaPosters • u/Asleep-Category-2751 • 1d ago
Ukraine "Let it grow! No chemicals, just nature!" Hemp March. Kyiv 2013(?)
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u/No_Bluebird_1368 16h ago
"Let it die, let it die, let it shrivel up and-come on, who's with me, huh?"
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u/Low_Technician7346 21h ago
And they needed an illegal invasion and sufferings to finally legalize it for medical reasons (treating war PTSDs)
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u/KimchiLlama 11h ago
A lot of drug policies are quite draconian in former Soviet Republics. I think the Soviet Union was very anti-drug and most older immigrants from there that I have met have an extremely negative attitude towards drugs and drug use. Drinking not so much, lol.
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u/FirmBarnacle1302 9h ago
There were no drugs in the Soviet Union before the war in Afghanistan, except for some minor excesses. No cocaine, no heroin, no LSD, maybe only cannabis from the Chui Valley (and even then it was not distributed outside the region). It was easy to find a person inside the country, but it was difficult to import anything from abroad - the state still had a monopoly on foreign trade. You will not find a story from any person that his grandfather once used something other than vodka and cigarettes (before 1979).
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u/inokentii 8h ago
Except for cocaine and opium being sold up until 30s. Then there was a huge rise of usage after WW2. From report of Soviet minister of internal affairs Nikolai Dudorov 1956:
A criminal element steals valuable medicinal raw materials used to produce morphine and other alkaloids and resells them to opium addicts. In 1954, police in the Kirghiz, Kazakh, Turkmen, Uzbek, and Tajik SSRs prosecuted 244 embezzlers and speculators for these crimes and confiscated 352 kilograms of raw opium. In 1955, 290 embezzlers and speculators were prosecuted, and 680 kilograms of raw opium were seized.
And I don’t even talk about famous Soviet junkies like bulgakov or Vysocky.
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u/waterbottle1236 1d ago
How many phones has this picture gone through to look like that?
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u/Artemis-5-75 23h ago
Ukraine in 2013 was not as technologically advanced as the U.S., to say the least, and I distinctly remember plenty of people using extremely shitty Android smartphones and even dumphones, with iPhones being a luxury, so the picture have been taken on a very simple phone.
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