Andrei Tarkovsky's "Stalker"

 "May everything come true. May they believe. May they laugh at their passions. For that which they call passion is not really the energy of the soul, but merely friction between the soul and the outer world. But mostly may they have hope and may they become as helpless as children. For weakness is great and strength is worthless."

Full movie: Part 1 Part 2

AJRMS - Dedicated to you but you weren't glistening

Illustrations from the 1979 children's book Your Name? Robot.

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Previously in this series of scans from the AJRMS Soviet-era kids' book collection:

--Mummy was a robot, daddy was a small nonstick kitchen utensil

Also see: Smoking Crack in the Cosmic Egg

Source Update: The illustrator's name is Mikhail Romadin, and he was an art director for Tarkovsky's Solaris!

AJRMS - Mummy Was A Robot, Daddy Was A Small Non-Stick Kitchen Utensil

From A Journey Round My Skull:

Illustrations by E. Benyaminson for Hello, I'm Robot! by Stanislav Zigunenko (Russia, 1989).

This is the first post of a series featuring my recently-acquired collection of Soviet children's books from the 60s, 70s, and 80s.

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