Actually, there was some internal competition (e.g. Aeroflot vs railways, tobacco brands etc) and advertisement was indeed used as a tool to compete. It also wo

Actually, there was some internal competition (e.g. Aeroflot vs railways, tobacco brands etc) and advertisement was indeed used as a tool to compete. It also worth to mention the NEP period of USSR history with full-scale competition, when a lot of advertisement artworks were created by Rodchenko and others.