[Tade0]

It wasn't banned per se - it was just that with a non-exchangable currency getting hold of a copy of anything was difficult.

Some western productions would make it through the iron curtain, but they needed to be checked and usually censored beforehand. Politically correct (in the original meaning of the expression) poster art was a genre in and of itself:

https://www.fanthatracks.com/news/collecting/star-wars-poste...

[YeGoblynQueenne]

Woa. Those posters are really good. Totally different aesthetic than the film, but I think they draw from the Eastern Block's long tradition of Sci Fi that was more artsy and less action, far as I understand it.

[Tade0]

Ironically because of the political system back then - censors did only a cursory check whether the work meets the guidelines (no gore, nudity, positive depictions of "imperialist" America) and there obviously was no push to make the poster "sell" the movie - authors had a lot of artistic freedom, so they experimented.