The struggle for lighter-
than-air dominance 

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Image: “Let’s build a dirigible
fleet in the name of Lenin!”
Soviet agitprop poster (1928)
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From an advertisement to appear on the text of a candy-wrapper:

The dirigible

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The bourgeoisie come together
In order to separate us
But the Soviet dirigible
Flies along the border

Vladimir Maiakovskii
Moscow, 1923-1925

zeppelin zeppelin

“Comrade dirigible” [Товаришь дирижабль]

Let’s build an airfleet in the name of Lenin

Over the land of the Soviets must fly Soviet dirigibles

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