Postcard "Volsvi travel with a star" of the publication "The Godless at the machine"

An original and very rare Soviet postcard in good collector's condition. Publishing house "The atheist at the machine". The circulation is 5000. Guarantee of authenticity.

The magazine "Atheist at the machine" is an atheistic printed publication published in the USSR in the period from 1923 to 1941. From 1923 to 1932, the magazine was called "The Godless at the machine", and then it simply became known as" The Godless " - despite the name change, the publication was remembered by the people under its original name. In addition to the magazine "Atheist at the machine", the editorial office published the newspaper "Atheist" (1922-1941), which was the printing organ of the Central Council of the Union of Militant Atheists — a Soviet public anti-religious organization.

Caricatures of Allah and insults of Jesus-the satirical magazine "The Atheist at the machine" did not pay attention to the feelings of believers. The magazine spoke in a simple and understandable language for the workers, but it could not defeat the church. The anti-religious press was published in the USSR since the beginning of the 1920s: the magazines "Revolution and the Church", "The Tower of Babel", the newspaper "Atheist"were printed. They were boring and toothless-the editorial offices were closed one by one. Whether it's the case of the magazine "Atheist at the machine", founded by the main specialist of the party on the "church question" Yemelyan Yaroslavsky. His other project — the newspaper "Godless" - has already turned into a mouthpiece of atheism: in the 1930s, its circulation reached 500 thousand copies. Yaroslavsky advocated the prohibition of church music, including works by Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninoff, and believed that the struggle against religion is the struggle for socialism.

In one of the first issues, the magazine publishes material with photos about the autopsy of the graves of the miracle workers Zosima and Savvati on Solovki. The editorial board shows that the remains of saints are as perishable as the remains of ordinary people. In the following publications, the magazine calls Jesus a malicious moonshiner, and God-a "bastard". But the main weapon of the "Atheist at the machine" is the caustic and evil cartoons of Dmitry Moore — the founder of the Soviet political poster and the main artist of the magazine. Moore draws God, Allah and Jehovah in the form of helpless old men with twisted, angry faces and creates the main symbol of the magazine — a young red-cheeked atheist Antipka (according to legend, Moore drew it from a street urchin he met on the street). The magazine also publishes drawings by the famous Soviet graphic artist and muralist Alexander Deineka.