Be a patriot

Another Cold War example of how to stir those patriotic feelings: see what the bad guys are doing, and then come and see us try to do it better.

"Russian Expo", 1967
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In Russia, train rides you

What is the message of this ad?

"Newest Russian discovery", 1959
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Self-deprecating irony? Red-scare mongering?

If the copy of the ad reads their railroads are better funded and more extensive than ours, then the masthead is definitely misleading - talk about Cold War politics.

"Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel" Samuel Johnson, 18th century.