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Often referred to as “Soviet Pop Art”, Sots Art (short for Socialist Art) originated in the Soviet Union in the early 1970s as a reaction against the official aesthetic doctrine of the state—" Socialist Realism ". Socialist Realism was marked by reverential depictions of workers, peasants living happily in their communes, and a young, fit Joseph Stalin .
Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid , inventors of the term “Sots Art”, worked in advertising and were frequently employed to use Socialist Realist aesthetics in their ads and brochures.
In the winter of 1972, Komar and Melamid were putting together a design for the Young Pioneers ' upcoming summer camp session.