Clearly, that fellow is wearing a Psychic Obfuscation Helmet and wielding a Chromatic Projection Rod in preparation for exploring the ruined city of Thajivar (you can tell the later by the architecture).
This one is an official inspection of Soviet fire stations on Red Square in 1932. Photo made by great Soviet Russian Constructivist photograph Alexander Mikhailovich Rodchenko. Elena from Moscow
Very cool.
ReplyDeleteWell, what was the original image link?
ReplyDeleteHeh, tried that. It just said "photopodborka" and Googling turned up nothing singly or for any combo of those three words.
ReplyDeleteThank you for my new desktop picture. :o)
ReplyDeleteI believe that's an old Soviet astronaut...;)
ReplyDeleteI'm going to go with Robo-Commies.
ReplyDeleteHmm...
(Said in that 1950s echo-movie-announcer voice...) MUTANT SPEAR CHUCKING MONGOL WARRIORS FROM OUTERRRRR SPAAAAAAAAACE!!!.....
ReplyDeleteLooks like a Sov-era Russian firefighter in clunky breathing apparatus to me.
ReplyDeleteNah, scratch that! It's one of the Tsar's elite Cyber-Cossack flametroopers.
vw: tersivor - and that's their unit name right there.
Chris: That's the spirit!
ReplyDeleteClearly, that fellow is wearing a Psychic Obfuscation Helmet and wielding a Chromatic Projection Rod in preparation for exploring the ruined city of Thajivar (you can tell the later by the architecture).
ReplyDeleteIf you read Russian, this might help: http://www.dirty.ru/comments/240570
ReplyDeleteThis one is an official inspection of Soviet fire stations on Red Square in 1932. Photo made by great Soviet Russian Constructivist photograph Alexander Mikhailovich Rodchenko.
ReplyDeleteElena from Moscow
Better late than never.
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