A hippy-like drug addict in Soviet Russia injecting a drug into his arm and denying that his drug addiction is a reason for his inability to work. Colour lithograph after F. Neli︠u︡bin, ca. 1987.

[Leningrad] : Izdatel'stvo "Khudozhnik RSFSR", [1987?] ([Leningrad] : Izokombinat "Khudozhnik RSFSR")

1 print : lithograph, printed in colours ; sheet 44 x 32.8 cm

Kto? Ėto i︠a︡-to ne vlakyvai︠u︡?! Glazha ne kolet len' emu. I vsem po︠n︡iatno, pochemy. Khudozhnik F. Neli︠u︡bin. Stikhi V. Khochinskogo. Bears device (palette and pencil) of Boevoĭ karandash, with legend "Boevoĭ karandash. Izdatel'stvo Khudozhnik RSFSR" Paraphrase of lettering: Who, me? aren't I a jobbing hand? For him laziness is not a matter for shame: everybody clearly sees the reason why [he does not work].

Produced by the Leningrad group of artists called Boevoĭ karandash (Militant pencil), in the satirical series I smekh i grekh (Laughter and sin). Some of the anti-alcoholism posters which they produced in the late 1980s are reproduced in Stephen White, Russia goes dry: alcohol, state and society, Cambridge 1996, pp. 73, 143, 149

Wellcome Collection 660343i