Soviet poster The Soviet poster The smoke of chimneys is the breath of Soviet Russia is NOT about pollution It says that industry is a key element for Soviet Russia working industry chimney smoke is as important for Soviet Russia as a normal breath for a human BTW intensive smoke from plant chimneys was regarded in Rissia in the beginning of the 20th century before the October Revolution as a sign and a sort of an advertisement of a successfull intensively working enterprise An idiom a lower chimney and a thinner smoke emerged from this and it is still used with meaning the latter is the same as the former but of far less scale success intensity 95 221 19 247