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starik36 on March 19, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: How Soviet science magazines fantasized about life...

I remember reading a book as a kid in USSR about some child inventing a rocket ship, flying to the moon and leading a communist revolution among the natives.

That book left a really big impression on me - it was truly entertaining.

P.S. Found it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunno_on_the_Moon

Snelius on March 19, 2020 | [–]

It's more like an "Aelita" by Aleksey Tolstoy about Mars :)

nine_k on March 19, 2020 | [–]

It also contains one of the best, most poignant caricatures of American capitalism and mass culture.

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