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Re:Sovetskoe Foto (Soviet Photography) by pandaman on Wednesday March 29, 2017 @08:11PM (#13991826)
In late 80s they ran a TV show with Soviet and American audiences and hosts talking to each other[1]. Once they were a few seconds late to cut off a commercial being shown to the Americans and Soviet public learned that this show had commercials and demanded them to be shown to the Soviet side as well. This should tell you how much advertisement was there.

All I can recall is few absurd billboards like "Fly Aeroflot!" (the only airline) or "Keep your savings in the Sberkassa!" (which probably did not advertise the Sberkassa itself, since it was the only retail bank, but the savings accounts, still looked funny).

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S.–Soviet_Space_Bridge

Re:Sovetskoe Foto (Soviet Photography) by quirkafleeg on Thursday March 30, 2017 @04:36AM (#13993799)
> All I can recall is few absurd billboards like "Fly Aeroflot!" (the only airline)

There were many airlines (from different countries) flying to and from the USSR.

Re:Sovetskoe Foto (Soviet Photography) by red75prime on Thursday March 30, 2017 @09:43AM (#13995240)
It was supposed that soviet citizens don't need to fly to decadent West.