Thread by @SlavaMalamud

Hey, wanna see how a 1960 Soviet comic imagined the year 2017?
You are in luck...

Here is a Soviet schoolboy, waking up in the morning thanks to an awesome piece of 2017 technology, a wall clock with a robotic arm that flicks his nose.

It's time for breakfast and Igor (a terrible inaccuracy here, as the writer failed to predict the popularity of archaic Russian names in the XXI c.; the kid should be Kuzma or Frol) uses a "smart kitchen machine" that reads a recipe scribbled on a piece of paper to prepare a meal

Paper, of course, was one thing that Soviet sci-fi writers could never imagine would go obsolete. Same as 1960s fashions. Here you see fedoraed Soviets reading a newspaper "about the newest achievements of Soviet science" (which don't include an iPad, I presume).

Never fear, though. Soviet science is as formidable as ever. Here are photon rockets speeding toward Alpha Centauri. Probably to build socialism.
Of course, a rocket this big requires huge amounts of photons or something. And to produce it, the rocket must carry LOTS of coal.

Yes, coal is another thing that will be going strong in 2017 (fact check: accurate), but so much more of it will be needed.
Which is why the USSR will have built a whole city, Coalgrad, underground in Siberia, where lucky workers will be able to mine it year round.

It goes without saying that the USSR has re-annexed Alaska and built a dam across the Bering Strait in order to, obviously, change climate and improve the weather in the Soviet Far East, presumably to convert Gulags to summer labor.

Soviets are bigly into fucking with weather in 2017. Here is their flying saucer weather control station capable of destroying hurricanes. It's controlled via a radical XXI century communication device, radio.

But its main purpose is to ensure clear skies over Moscow for the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution.
This is celebrated as "a great victory of Soviet science over nature." Because nature is a ruthless enemy that must be destroyed.

But not the only one!
Oh no, the last remaining imperialists on Earth, secluded on a tiny Pacific island (they are quite shitty at imperialism, looks like), have tested a secret weapon and blew themselves the fuck away!
Good riddance, but this may spoil the glorious celebration!

But never fear! Igor's father, The Main Glorious Soviet Weather Changer, has fired up his flying saucer and fucked the imperialist tsunami up.
Here he is breaking the happy news via a televideophone, to his female comrade and their less useful children.

Benevolent Soviet shock workers are back to their usual glorious exploits.
Such as removing "unneeded hills" with targeted atomic explosions.

... or turning huge Siberian rivers the fuck around so they could flow to places more useful to glorious Soviet industry.
Man, 2017 USSR as imagined in 1960 is a wet Republican dream.

And let's not forget creating Supervillainmobiles of Horrors that glorious Soviet shock workers will ride to the center of the earth to tap resources of eternal energy.
Fuck nature, Comrades. Fuck it in every possible opening in the Earth's crust!

All hail glorious Soviet science superheroes, the destroyers of evil nature and the mighty huggers of Young Communist Pioneers.
The year 2017 will be the mightiest and the most glorious since the Red October!