Vintage Soviet Christmas and New Year Propaganda Postcards

Soviet Christmas-time propaganda seems to have revolved around space flight, and we love that.

Soviet Christmas and New Year postcards were a popular way to celebrate the holiday season in the Soviet Union. Many of these postcards featured space flight themes, which reflected the Soviet Union’s achievements in space exploration.

These postcards often depicted Santa Claus or Ded Moroz, the Russian equivalent of Santa Claus, piloting a spacecraft or exploring the cosmos. The postcards were often adorned with images of rockets, planets, and stars, and they were a tribute to the Soviet Union’s technological prowess and scientific achievements.

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Written by Tamás Varga

A sociologist and English major by degree, I've worked in the area of civil society & human rights and have been blogging in the fields of travel, nature & science for over 20 years.

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