"Sovok fragments" soviet history art book

This illustrated book is created by Olga & Vira Mad Twins - Ukrainian artists well-known on the punk rock and psychobilly scene. Apart from the music we are into digging history like reading memoirs, especially those about the soviet past of our own country. While still unknown in the Western world and despite being praised with nostalgia on many social media platforms here - the real life of the people of the colonial USSR was drastically far from its official press and propaganda versions. Building on the internet daily drawing challenge "Inktober" of 2020 as a base we use this opportunity to portray social and cultural life and the repressions of the USSR. Everything depicted here is an excerpt, a summary of published and in free access memoirs of the older generation and our own memories. After all, we are the kids of "sovok" too. All illustrations are hand drawn with Indian ink. The purpose of publishing this collection is purely educational. If you are already fascinated by the philosophy of socialism - check this book and at least do not cite Soviet socialism as an example of its successful implementation.

Post-colonial soviet mind is still alive in those who raised oppressed and humiliated and now ready to destroy the others who live better life. Occupied territories of ex-soviet republics and war in Ukraine is a direct result of colonial mind of post soviet Russia and a tragedy of a fact that USSR never been condemned by the world.

This art book is for anyone who wants to hear the voices of real people who lived their lives in the USSR. You will learn about the Soviet space program, fugitives from the USSR, torture in Gulag camps, state anti-Semitism, widespread theft, alcoholism, soviet hunger for "branded clothes", struggles of sub-culture kids, as well as what was wrong with Soviet bras, why Soviets did not brush their teeth and eat blue chickens.

What's in the book:
- 36 illustrated articles based on Inktober themes plus 5 addional ones
- foreword by cult Ukrainian artist and writer Les' Poderviansky
- afterwrody by Jim Heath of The Reverend Horton Heat

Notes:
-All text is in two languages: Ukrainian and English.
-English text is family friendly, foreword by Poderviansky consist original writing style of author.

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