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title: '"Да здравствует Коммунистическая партия Советского Союза!": rooftop slogan, Moscow'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/moscow-kpss-rooftop-slogan-1975/
description: 'Across the skyline, beside the river and the high-rise CMEA building, a long line of tall letters runs along the roof of a large apartment block: ''Long…'
section: Collection
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# "Да здравствует Коммунистическая партия Советского Союза!": rooftop slogan, Moscow

Across the skyline, beside the river and the high-rise CMEA building, a long line of tall letters runs along the roof of a large apartment block: 'Long live the Communist Party of the Soviet Union!' The slogan is pure acclamation, a virtue-word substitute that makes no testable claim, placed at roof height so it reads from the river embankment.

## Text on the object

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

```
[illegible]А ЗДРАВСТВУЕТ КОММУНИСТИЧЕСКАЯ ПАРТИЯ СОВЕТСКОГО СОЮЗА!
```

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

```
[illegible] live the Communist Party of the Soviet Union!
```

Read from an enlarged crop of the committed image; the first letter of the line is hidden by the building at left and is not read.

[← "为革命实行计划生育" (Practise family planning for the revolution), Shanghai poster](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/family-planning-for-the-revolution-china-1975/) [Partido Socialista posters on a Lisbon building front, early 1975 →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/partido-socialista-posters-lisbon-1975/)

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