Soviet advertisemt

Contrary to popular western believe people in the USSR did not starve. Life was not splendid, but people somehow got by. Here are a couple of original advertisements of the later day Soviet Union.
Interesting: the beer-ad references the product to southern Bavaria

What is true, however, is the fact that many products were of poor and very poor quality. Here is a picture from wikipedia displaying Belomorkanal Cigarettes. The greyish part contained crumbling tobacco and the white pipe was used as a simple filter against tobacco crumbs. The smoke itself was perhaps the heaviest sort that I ever inhaled.