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Posters against corruption

Ararat L. Osipian
Soviet Union
Russia
Ukraine
Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan
Peoples Republic of China
Nazi Germany
Indonesia
Vietnam
Nigeria
Kenya
Albania
Iraq
Malawi
Uganda
Zambia
UN
World Bank

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Soviet Union

He has only mastered one science,

How to take bribes with certainty
We need to give he not in his hand,
But to strike on his hands.
Soviet poster for a corrupt bureaucrat, 1956, author: Boris G. Rezanov.
http://www.plakaty.ru/posters

To stop and to punish severely those who like corrupt rubles Soviet poster, 1965

Zastoi, burocratizm, korruptsiya Perestroika period poster, 1989, author: L. Zabolotsky.

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Russia

Lets take education to clear waters!

I want your money!

Corruption busters

The evolution of bribery: Money is nothing! Food is forever.

Lets chase rats away! Root out corruption!

http://www.sostav.ru/news/2008/06/20/r4/

It is better to steal than to work with a shovel.

A bribe does not solve problems. It only creates them. Poster placed in all HEIs in Chelyabinsk,
2009. http://chel.kp.ru/online/news/568567/

A student: before the session, after the session

Do you give a bribe? Criminal Code of the RF, paragraph 291, part 2, punished by up to 8 years
in prison, St. Petersburg, Russia, 2009

Do you face corruption? Call 576-77-65. Corruption. St. Petersburg, Russia, 2009

Lets win over corruption in courts! Chelyabinsk, Russia, 2009

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Ukraine

The Department of Economic Crime Prevention of the Ministry of the Interior warns: there are no
immune bribe takers! The responsibility comes sooner or later.
The poster is printed by the order of the Ministry in May of 2008 and is being distributed to
administrations, schools, and other public establishments. Placement of the poster is not required,
but is encouraged by the Ministry. http://ru.proua.com/news/2008/05/29/142614.html

UBK warns: do not take! Bribe. UBK [upravlenie po borbe s korruptsiei] is the Anticorruption
division of the police. The poster is copied from the Soviet poster Be Alert!

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Kazakhstan

Had a house, had job. But! Wanted a LOT of money!

The time of corruption is over!

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Future without corruption.

Kazakhstan without corruption.

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Against corruption.

Stop corruption

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Stop corruption!

To accept means to loose

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Uproot corruption

Hand-calf these hands

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Peoples Republic of China

No to corruption.

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Nazi Germany

End corruption! Join Nationalsocialists! Poster 4. Germany, 1939.

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Indonesia

Stop corruption in this country. Anti-corruption poster produced by the Campaign for a Life Free
of Corruption Alliance.

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Vietnam

No corruption

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Nigeria

Traffic police corruption http://mccoy.lib.siu.edu/jmccall/otherafricas/corruption.html

Sports corruption http://mccoy.lib.siu.edu/jmccall/otherafricas/corruption.html

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Academic corruption http://mccoy.lib.siu.edu/jmccall/otherafricas/corruption.html

Customs corruption http://mccoy.lib.siu.edu/jmccall/otherafricas/corruption.html

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http://www.dfid.gov.uk/news/files/world-anti-corruption-day-08.asp

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Kenya

Corruption vs. Integrity

http://www.bcaheritage.org.uk/oriki/artists.htm

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Albania

Stop corruption

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Iraq

You can say NO to favouritism, bribery, rigging, mediocrity, burglary

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Afghanistan

Stop corruption. Support Afghanistan

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Malawi

Stop corruption! Develop Malawi!

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Uganda

Corruption Kills

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Zambia

Pay taxes, not bribes

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UN

No corruption

No corruption

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World Bank

Money laundering

http://www1.worldbank.org/devoutreach/september06/article.asp?id=363

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For more modern posters on corruption (2008), see http://notabene.org.ru/