Soviet film posters from the post-Stalin “Khrushchev thaw” period: The Moscow Design Museum has been collecting artefacts from the former Soviet Union that were “discarded, destined to be forgotten” after the “Evil Empire” collapsd in 1991, according to the Guardian. Among these artefacts are film posters from the 1950s and 1960s, during what is known as the “Khrushchev thaw” — the period after Joseph Stalin’s death, which was characterized by increased liberalism. “At that time, design had an artistic expressiveness that reflected the thaw and dreams of a new, more open world.”