Cake Box Ad. USSR (early 1930)

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[magista.livejournal.com]

Only the best home factory baking...

[singeaddams.livejournal.com]

That factory is terrifying. The ad's lovely, though!

[ejia-arath03.livejournal.com]

I'm getting a serious SLAVERY IS FREEDOM vibe from it.

[singeaddams.livejournal.com]

*shudder*

[whoseline_wlsc]

That's pretty, but it's one big factory! (if all of that's the factory...)

[pikkewyntjie.livejournal.com]

Considering the source, maybe some of that is dormatories for the workers. I have a feeling the smaller building on the left at front might be offices.

Sure is a bleak image for cake mix and oddly contrasting from the roses! That's probably not Siberia, but that's what I would imagine Siberia to look like in the summer. I also imagine that body of water in the front of the ad was filled with industrial pollutants and hadn't had a living vertebrate in it for 20 years.

[justnat.livejournal.com]

Actually, this factory was built well before Russian revolution. It is located is Moscow, the body of water is the Moscow River.
(edited) I actually found an article in English:
http://www.konfetki.ru/eng/about/history.shtml

[pikkewyntjie.livejournal.com]

Interesting reading. The workers did live at the factory, but it sounds like it was pretty progressive for the time with the hospital fund and pension. Thanks!