[ailideex]

And the novelty is? I mean, everyone fantasized about life in outer space - why would the soviets not? Or is the novelty that it is amazing how the people that wrote those magazines somehow eluded the gulags? Because the answer there presumably is that they probably did not elude the gulags.

[dang]

(This is a case where the leading "How", which HN's software sometimes drops from titles, makes an important difference. We've re-howed it now.)

Please don't post shallow dismissals to HN, though. The article doesn't make it hard to find out what its topic is or why it's interesting.

The internet pattern of rushing to the cosmic hash table to find the biggest thing associated with any key, then rushing to post about it, makes for lame discussion. We're looking for things that are less predictable here.

[Ididntdothis]

It’s interesting because in the west we didn’t hear much about what was going on in the Soviet Union.

[Mountain_Skies]

Pity how much of that cultural content was lost during the post collapse years of the USSR.

[carapace]

Tesla's space truck!

It's time to start dreaming again because we are about to be able to do it.

[pjc50]

Much of it was officially produced and supported. No question of gulags.