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[–] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

No. The original meme is about not drinking specificly the day before the first of may

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    No. The original poster was an early soviet anti-drinking poster. One thing that people forget is that the USSR in its early days actually had alcohol prohibition. It was lifted under Stalin, however.

    Alcoholism was just as big a problem in Tsarist Russia as it is in Russia today.

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 1 year ago

    Amongst socialists back then there was a big prohibition movement. The Scottish Prohibition party, who had one MP until the 30s was a firmly socialist party and there was a form relationship between the Temperance movement in The UK and Socialist ideals. Basically the reason was because they saw alcohol as a tool against the working class wherein the ruling class kept them addicted and drunk to prevent them from self improvement while making money off them.

    Even today, a lot of Anarchists are straight edge for similar reasons, plus the idea that drinking and drugs means they close control of their faculties and this, autonomy.

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