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I'd guess it's a wee bit difficult to provide that: [saying this as a designer/illustrator with a deep interest in the subject] Soviet design inherited rules from artists involved at the start of the revolution, and was formalised via government-run technical schools and propaganda bureaus, so there was a constant stream of highly public stuff in this style, which covered print, architecture, products etc. In the US, bar propaganda during the war, there was never close to the same formal propaganda structure, so though there are are isolated examples, it was always more ad hoc: good design/illustration was always commercial (as a side note, classic sci-fi/popular mechanics covers were very heavily informed by Soviet space propaganda posters). Closest you'd get is probably postage stamps. NASA has some stuff archived, but it's not the same, it's just prosaic designs with stuff like a photo of the crew of a mission. I assume it wasn't promoted with the same religious fervour in the US, no creation of secular ikons


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