The key facts
- A six-question quiz on the continuations of slogans from Soviet posters was published on November 7, the anniversary of the October Revolution.
- The outlet notes that familiar phrases are easy to confuse with later jokes and parodies.
- The quiz is accompanied by a selection of other quizzes — about Soviet films, Russian regions, and traditional costumes.
Quiz for the anniversary of the revolution
The outlet Life.ru has published a quiz, dedicated to the language of Soviet posters: readers are asked to choose the real continuation of each of six slogans. The piece was published on November 7, the anniversary of the October Revolution.
What the quiz is about and what comes with it
The authors explain the idea this way: a Soviet poster could send a volunteer to the army, persuade a worker to overfulfill the plan, and explain how to properly organize everyday life, and its short phrases stuck in memory for a long time. The problem, according to the outlet, is that today familiar phrases are easy to confuse with later jokes and parodies — and that is exactly what the quiz tests: you need to distinguish the genuine continuation of a slogan from a made-up one.
What else you can take
Along with the piece, Life.ru attached a selection of its other quizzes: identifying Soviet films from characters in masks, determining Russian regions by their outlines, understanding the details of the traditional costumes of the peoples of Russia, as well as quizzes about the heroines of Rina Zelyonaya, USSR films based on shop signs, and outdated words from Russian stories. A quiz on deciphering USSR abbreviations is mentioned separately.
