'Soviets' features unpublished drawings from the archive of Danzig Baldaev. They
satirize the Communist Party system, exposing the absurdities of Soviet life fr
om drinking to the Afghan war, via dissent and religion. Baldaev reveals the cra
cks in the crumbling socialist structure, detailing the increasing hardships tol
erated by a population whose leaders are in pursuit of an ideal that will never
arrive. Dating from 1950s to the period immediately before the fall of the Sovie
t Union in 1991, his caricatures depict communism's winners and losers: the corr
uption of its politicians, the stagnation of the system, and the effect of this
on the ordinary Soviet citizen.
