They succeeded only in caricatures: how they fought drunkenness in the USSR

Almost 100 years ago, the first issue of the satirical magazine Krokodil was published, which for many years became the only all-Union satirical publication.

The filings of the magazine, symbolized by a red crocodile with pitchforks, were kept in many Soviet families, since the circulation in the publications reached 6.5 million copies.

In those days, magazines and newspapers in packs printed caricatures that expose alcoholics and moonshakers. Many of them were very witty. Let's look at the cartoons about the fight against drunkenness from the legendary magazine.