A few months ago I did a post on Soviet Amateurs (see Back in the C.C.C.P.- Soviet Amateurs & Propaganda), which looked at amateur erotic photography under the Soviet regime. Since then I’ve come across some slightly more mainstream Soviet erotica in the form of the old standard: playing cards.
Erotic cards first became popular worldwide in the mid 1800’s and remain so today. The quality in the CCCP varied widely from small runs of self-printed decks to commercially produced packs, although the former seems to have been more common during the communist era for obvious reasons; some were merely “recycled” pictures which had been crudely cropped and pasted onto card blanks then reprinted. The content also varied from hardcore pornography to pinup style images. The following are apparently from a handmade Russian deck, circa 1960’s:

originals from vadfromkiev.livejournal.com (in Russian)