Tuesday, November 10, 2020

Four Good Things About the Soviet Union

I'm still not writing about the coup or the alternate reality being created by Republicans for their base so they can consider the Biden presidency illegitimate for the next four years (if there isn't an actual coup). 

Instead, I'm posting four Soviet-era matchboxes from the Humanoid History Tumblr:

I'm not sure what the printing method was on these — silk-screening, maybe? It's something that didn't allow for very exact color alignment or solid ink coverage, but it left us with these charmingly funky images.

It's an odd day when you're cheered up by images from the Soviet Union.


1 comment:

Jean said...

Those are fantastic! They remind me of Soviet postage stamps, too, the kind that commemorated scientific advances.