Dieselpunk also borrows stylistically from the immediate post-World War II years, according to Piecraft. “The dieselpunk world is a post-atomic dystopian [one],” he writes, “that is still stuck in the 1950s [...] and is usually cast in the future capitalist-run world that relies on the nuclear values of an isolationist America.” George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four...

“Once we filled the sky with heroes... but now those heroes have fallen to earth.”...

The Soviet Union, 1934. “All religion has been deemed counter productive to the state and outlawed. Technology has become god.” Enter the world of Atomika....

Aficionados of Soviet era Russian architecture should check out Children of Iofan, a website full of designs that are indeed reminiscent of the work of the famous Boris Iofan (1891-1976) who designed, among other things, the Palace of the Soviets, which was never built, as well as his country’s pavilion for the 1937 world’s fair ...