News Stands on the Roads

Communist education was the most important task of the Soviet Government. One of the elements of that education was to hand out communist newspapers at road stands. (We didn't have any other newspaper.)

News stands were necessary elements in every day landscapes in the Soviet Union.
There was a special service, supporting the ideological division of district committees of the communist party, which hung the newspapers daily.

In the Soviet Union the newspapers consisted of two sheets (four pages). The central newspaper, sometimes, was printed with an additional sheet. There were no advertisements in newspapers.

The Newspaper articles were usually about the advantages of a Socialist system; also about how we had to improve production of goods and food and who prevented that from happening. The newspapers wrote about fulfillment and over production of targets of the plans. They wrote about the peaceful politics of the Soviet Union and about the imperialistic politics of the west.

They wrote about events from abroad from the communist point of view.
The advertisement stands on the roads in Boston remind me of the news stands in the Soviet Union.

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