Slogan banners at a rally on Lenin Square, Gomel: "Слава КПСС!" (Glory to the CPSU!)

A dense crowd of uniformed and civilian attendees stands under red banners and flags on a square, with two Pioneers in front. The lettering is all acclamation: 'Glory to the CPSU!', 'We live dreaming of peace!', and, on the building behind, 'Glory to the Soviet people'. The tell is virtue words standing in for any testable claim.

Date: 1977
Period: Cold War
Made by: Communist Party of the Soviet Union and local authorities, Gomel (organisers are not named on the banners)
Region: Eastern Europe and Eurasia
Country: Soviet Union
Medium: Signs and banners
Issuer type: Party
Regime: Soviet Union
Leader: Leonid Brezhnev
Audience: Domestic public
Purpose: Mobilize or secure compliance
Theme: Elections and party politics
Event: October Revolution 60th Anniversary
Techniques: Glittering generalities
Source: Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
Source: Fortepan (donor: MHSZ), retrieved October 2, 2026
Rights: CC BY-SA 3.0 (Fortepan site footer); covers the photograph only
Fortepan / MHSZ, ID 84522 (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Text on the object

Original (Russian) · read from the image, not independently checked

[Roof lettering, background, partly hidden by trees:] СЛАВА СОВЕТСКОМУ НАРОДУ
[Banners, left to right:]
[illegible]ВА ВЕЛИКОМУ ОКТЯБРЮ!
60-ЛЕТИЮ ВЕЛИКОГО ОКТЯБРЯ — ДОСТОЙНУЮ ВСТРЕЧУ!
МЫ МЕЧТОЮ О МИРЕ ЖИВЁМ!
Слава КПСС!
[illegible] СЛАВА КПСС
[illegible]НИЯ [illegible]У СЪЕЗДА КПСС [illegible]ПОЛНИМ!

English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader)

[Roof lettering:] Glory to the Soviet people
[Banners:]
[illegible] to the Great October!
A worthy welcome to the 60th anniversary of Great October!
We live dreaming of peace!
Glory to the CPSU!
[illegible] Glory to the CPSU
[illegible] [illegible] of the Congress of the CPSU [illegible] fulfil!

Read from enlarged crops of the committed image; the first and last banners are partly hidden by flags and other banners.