Beautiful Soviet Children’s Books Make Me Wish I Was Born Behind the Iron Curtain
I mean, not really, but still! These wonderfully idiosyncratic illustrations, from 1989’s Hello, I’m Robot! by Stanislav Zigunenko, render our robot future in a way that conveys big ideas to children, and pure poetry to the rest of us. https://gizmodo.com/the-true-heartbreaking-faces-of-the-nuclear-era-5400857 Perhaps what makes these illustrations work is that they trust their young audience with difficult…