I would be hugely obliged if someone could give me a rough translation of the poster on this page.
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That's the one bit I understood, too. I'm trying to understand what it is that costs this amount. I *think* it's the cost of a year of education and the poster is reminding students that their (then) free education is in fact quite expensive.
If so, I would really like to buy this poster, because I've never seen a government try to explain educational subsidies using poster art before. But I'd hate to buy it only to find out it was referring to something else.
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I'm pretty sure [edit: see below] the topic of the poster as a whole is not specific to education - though education costs are I think one slice of the circular pie depicted (along with other types of public expenditure). It doesn't help that the writing round the pie, and the bit under the "575 rubles per annum" bit is illegibly small. My Russian is a bit rusty, and I don't keep my Russian dictionary at work, but the bit at the top is "HOW MUCH 'FREE' COSTS". Payouts and [somethings] out of public consumption funds amount to.." By "consumption funds" I think they mean funds made available for current spend rather than capital investment.
Edit: on reflection it might all be different elements of education. One of the segments is clearly sport. The problem is that, as noted above, the words round the pie are illegible, so all we have to go on are the pics (since the legible words aren't education specfic. I guess the words under "per annum" might well be "for each spoilt sponging student".
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Agreed, it isn't just education, but also sports facilities, libraries, parks, the zoo, etc.
The style is also interesting given the late 80s date. Were they already into retro Pop Art, or had Peter Max just shown up on the banks of the Volga?
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Payments and privileges from social use funds total 575 rubles per year.
The words on the individual petals are so small and become unclear when you enlarge the picture, but one's definitely "sport," one's "libraries," and another is "houses of culture, clubs." But you get the idea.
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Thanks, 'trope. So would you agree with LM's second interpretation that each probably represents an aspect of spending on students? Houses of culture and clubs sound a lot like student union acitivites (or the communist equivalents thereof).
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I'm trying to make out more of the text on the petals. The first one in the upper right has education and something else, and another one on the left has "detsadi": kindergartens or maybe nursery schools. But the one below it has something to do with medicine, and the one at the bottom with the sailboat has something to do with sanatoria.
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sorry, this is all I got from my email dystemic:
Dear Gary,
Thank you for your email. I’m afraid our Russian translator is no longer working here, so I don’t have the ability to give you a better translation on the poster. I have attached a larger image in case that may be helpful to you.
Should you have any other questions please feel free to be in touch.
Best,
Tricia Weigold
International Poster Gallery
205 Newbury Street Boston, MA 02116
tel: 617 375 0076 | fax: 617 375 0079
Open Monday through Saturday 10-6 and Sunday noon-6
And the possibility that I might know what I am talking about, sort of left, last night when I stood on my glasses (any fucking Joe 90 impersonations will be dealt with 'thwow him to the fwoor' wise.)
so, sorry.
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