Sure they were batshit crazy and had no toilet paper, blue jeans or bubble gum but boy the old Soviet Union could produce some awesome artwork. When everything is created to glorify the state you get some great, dynamic images coming out of the gulags. These magazine covers would be great to see in the West when you actually had CHOICES about what magazine to buy and a cover really sold the issue but who am I to criticize? How crappy must it have been to see a great cover image then find out that the inside of the magazine contained the same tired 'worker good, capitalist exploiter of worker bad' propaganda. I guess all that was left was to get hammered on that cheap vodka and wait for Perestroika.
http://www.cartridgesave.co.uk/news/15-incredible-soviet-era-magazine-covers/
