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ANONYMOUS ARTIST. Sanitary Poster – Typhus
ANONYMOUS ARTIST. Sanitary Poster – Typhus
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Brud rozvodit voshi, vosha – rozsadnik tifu. Tif – smert’ lyudyam [Dirt leads to lice, lice transmit typhus, typhus kills people], a Ukrainian–language sanitary education poster. Published by the “Front and Transport Weekly” newspaper of the Kiev District Commission, c. 1919–1921. 70 x 40 cm.

The 1918–1922 typhus epidemic in Russia and Ukraine claimed millions of lives. Lenin had famously remarked in 1919, “All attention to this problem, comrades. Either lice will conquer socialism, or socialism will conquer lice.” An intensive propaganda campaign was launched to educate the population about the causes of disease, but efforts to stem the spread of the epidemic were hampered by war, famine, and constant shortages of disinfectants and medicines.

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ANONYMOUS ARTIST. Sanitary Poster – Typhus

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