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 th 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