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Hello guys, I'm unable to do anything productive due to flu so I thought I'd live-TL some weird old shit.
If you like the retro-futurism aesthetic of the pre-apocalypse Fallout world, this should be right up your alley. Except, of course, this is actual mid-20th century stuff.
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IN THE YEAR 2017
By V. Strukova and V. Shevchenko
Art by L. Smekhov
Produced by Diafilm studio, 1960
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Here are the schoolkids of 2017 in the school's cinema hall. A special cinematic technique called a "time lens" allows them to watch how the new form of the country was created.
>TL note: Apparently, the fashion would not change in 57 years
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The kids saw how the bridge spans joined over bottomless mountain gorges...
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...how ultra-precisely aimed nuclear explosions cut through hills and dug channels...
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>>88862222
...how Ob and Yenisei were revered and started to flow towards the Caspian Sea. This once drying up sea was now fed by new full-flowing rivers.
>For those who don't know, Ob and Yenisei are rivers the size of Mississippi, and yes, the Soviets actually made plans to re-route them south in the 50s
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The kids heard the narrator's voice: "This is the dam across the Bering strait. As you see, nuclear-powered trains speed on top of it. The dam stopped the cold currents from the Arctic Ocean, and the climate in the Far East improved"
>Also, half of SE Asia was completely fucked but who cares
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Pretty great OP
But you seem to be implying any of these are somehow a bad thing
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Then, the surface of the earth dissolved and they could see what happens underneath. In the depths of volcanoes, subterranean mole-crafts made of ultra heat resistant steel dug shafts towards inexhaustible energy supplies.
>And also Titans and Forgotten Beasts
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>>88862349
>>88862401
>>88862447
these could have been a reality, if world didn't go in the wrong direction
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Then the Earth vanished. In the interstellar space, photonic rockets - interstellar ships - raced at near lightspeed towards the closest and yet so distant planetary system - the Alpha Centauri.
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>HOLD ON TO YOUR FUCKING SIDES
Next morning, Igor woke up from a light flick on the nose. That was the alarm of his wall clock, designed as a joke by his father, who was a controller at the Central Weather Control Institute.
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Mom wasn't in the kitchen anymore, but she left a note - a job for a smart kitchen machine. "That's my favorite breakfast!" - the boy giggled.
>I like the subtle implication that mom's own cooking sucks
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Igor carefully started the machine and put the note in the slot. Invisible rays scanned the writing on the paper, automatic scoops measured the ingredients needed, special knives swiftly sliced the vegetables.
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So if Communism won we would have all of this, but instead we let capitalism win and we get...
*drum roll*
Shitty pop music, the current state of phone gaming and reaction videos on youtube.
Humanity really has its priorities straight
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Mom looked down from the televideophone screen. She was standing on the deck of a ship with a kindergarten, where her younger kids were.
"How's breakfast?", she asked.
>For some reason, the original explicitly refers to the ship as diesel powered
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"You are... at the Black Sea?" - Igor said, astonished. "- It's a work trip. I'm inspecting floating kindergartens, and thought I'd pay a visit to the youngsters too... Tell Dad on the phone that I'll only be back tomorrow."
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OH BTW. Forgot that the blurb mentions that all of this happens in Uglegrad (lit. "Coal-city"), a city in a cast artificial cavern under Antarctic ice.
Also, we're 1/2 through the filmstrip and the actual plot haven't even started
The kids rode through the streets of Uglegrad. The air was filled with a delicate smell of linden. It was hard to believe looking at people suntanning under quartz lights that a blizzard raged high above.
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At the outskirts of the city, massive steel harvesters were cutting through rock. Vladislav Ivanovich, the chief engineer of Uglegrad, told kids a lot of interesting things.
>>88863474
*vast artificial cavern
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"- That is a scale model of a new type of a geo-harvester, a high speed boring machine. This one will be powered by the newly discovered meson energy, which will give it three times the speed"
>Couldn't they just paint it red?
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>>88863236
>So if Communism won
There's your problem right there, that's like saying "If it wasn't for natural entropy..."
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"And the floating weather control station has a great future ahead of it. With the push of a button in the control room, the machine will fly and tame a hurricane, disperse a storm."
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" - It was just reported" - the chief meteorologist said - "that the last remaining Imperialists, hiding on a remote island, conducted a test of an illegal meson weapon. A massive explosion occurred, wiping out the entire island and causing perturbations in the atmosphere across the entire planet"
>THANKS HILLARY
>Also, that explosion is, like, the size of Chicxulub, all of the Pacific is completely fucking wasted along with your Bering strait dam
>>88863645
Utopian Communist fiction has a common theme of people tirelessly working for the common good and not being assholes to each other. This site is a perfect example of why this could never work.
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>>88863898
That's an extinction event sized explosion
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A terrifying thought burned Yevgeni Sergeevich's mind. Ships... Floating kindergartens... And there's his wife, Nina, Vitya. The hurricane is approaching with every minute, and the weather station has no radio control installed yet...
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>>88862447
With only a slight side effect of lethal exposure to anyone in area for the next year!
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A TV screen flickered with images of the Black Sea coast. Massive whirlwinds tore roofs off buildings and uprooted ancient trees.
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>>88862835
Worst timeline
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>>88863715
No Weather control station
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The chief meteorologist lowered blackened covers over the windows. His assistants worked the console. Flames could burn the eye even through blackened glass... The station emitted mesons of untold energies, fighting the hurricane.
>>88864089
It's 1960, when you couldn't spell "radiation" without "fucking rad". (Well, Kyshtym already happened, but nobody knew)
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When the meson lightnings were finally turned off and the black covers were lifted, the hurricane had disappeared, like magic. The flying weather control station saved hundreds of lives.
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>>88864312
Yes this is how weather works, weather station!
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But the capital was preparing for the celebration. Excitement was felt through the streets. Moscow citizens were snatching fresh papers with news about scientific breakthroughs in weather control.
>The celebration is obviously 1917+100 = 2017
>they have nuclear trains and meson hovercraft, but are still using paper for news and can't afford motorized window blinds!
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The weather control station floated slowly above the city. The rejoicing capital was preparing for the centenary of the Great October - and the celebration coincided with a great victory of Soviet science over nature.
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When Igor's father stepped out of the flying station, it took a while for the kid to free himself from his dad's embrace.
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In the evening, Yevgeni Sergeevich turned on the televideophone and called the ship. His wife smiled on the screen, and Nina stood beside her and yelled "Daddy, there came such soft, soft rains!"
END
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>>88862835
Dumb frogposter the world went wrong because of you.
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>>88864601
Thanks OP, made for an interesting read.
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>>88864053
>and the weather station has no radio control installed yet...
Are you fucking kidding me? They made an entire fucking building float, but they forgot to install some form of communication device?
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>>88864874
Well at least they did better than those imperialists, who blew themselves up like dumbasses, hahahaha!
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>>88862447
That's neat. Thanks a lot, OP.
I like stuff like this. Pic is some french comic from the end of the 18th century where they predicted food delivered via pipes, like water, natural gas or electricity.
>>88862585
It amuses me how the ecologists are all leaning left today, while nobody said "fuck you" to the planet like the societ union.
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>>88866166
>It amuses me how the ecologists are all leaning left today, while nobody said "fuck you" to the planet like the societ union.
You do realize that Soviet Union has fuck all to do with the political orientation we call "left" these days, right?
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Could almost hear the "ding" between frames.
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>>88863636
Red ones go fasta!
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>>88866335
I don't live in the US, we have a communist party that is allied with the greens here.
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>>88864601
>"Daddy, there came such soft, soft rains!"
I'm not sure what that's implying, but it reminds me of that soviet short animated film where a robot butler is all that's left after humanity is gone
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>>88866482
I highly doubt your communist party stands for a single-party system, government controlled and tightly censored media, operating any private business being punishable by jail or firing squad, travel being allowed only by special permit and so on.
>>88866500
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_Will_Come_Soft_Rains_(short_story)
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>>88862653
>>88862585
>>88862447
Ah, Soviet engineering and its contemptuous disregard for any natural systems, how I don't miss you so
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>>88862447
>ultra-precisely aimed nuclear explosions
man it's wild reading stuff when they didn't realize nukes were so fucking horrible.
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>>88866166
Well, now you can order food using a series of tubes, so the predictions weren't entirely incorrect!
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>>88866418
IRL it wouldn't have done that since it's a filmstrip, not a slide set.
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>>88867951
Strips had dings (along with narration, on records or cassettes), Anon. Teach needed the cue to advance them old manual projectors.We had ditto machines, too.
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>>88863236
Fuck communism, rather have trash then ruination.
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>>88863236
>but instead we let capitalism win and we get...
The most egalitarian civilization with the greatest potential for individual freedom and happiness in known human history?
Yeah, how do we manage?
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>>88866500
>but it reminds me of that soviet short animated film where a robot butler is all that's left after humanity is gone
That was "there will come soft rains" and it isn't soviet it was by Ray Bradbury
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>>88868565
Soviet strips for home use, and most strips for school use as well, had no accompanying narration since tape players were luxury items.
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>>88869004
The Soviets made a creepy as fuck animated adaptation, which is more known on /co/ since it gets posted in Euro animation and short animation threads all the time.
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>>88862835
you just had the follow the damn theory, workers
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>>88868565
>>88869119
>Teach needed the cue to advance them old manual projectors
I don't think the Soviets ever made a non-manual filmstrip projector.
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don't cry because it's over
smile because it happened
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