Actually Soviet sci-fi wasn’t like this at all, if Western imagination about alien contact inevitably devolves into “how do we kill them?”, Soviet sci-fi was more about “how do we understand them?” and I think there are structural reasons why a socialist society wasn’t paranoid about “the other” the way racist, colonialist, imperialist societies are.
Case in point: The contact
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
Have not watched Star Trek, but is this their premise?
Star Trek is very amazing, but sadly there isn’t a single episode where they push most of Eurasia to the moon to save the Soviet Union.
There’s a lot of socialism though!
Not exactly, but here’s some history / context: https://archive.is/pQjLH
Lowkey happened in Le Guin’s novel “The Dispossessed” only it was anarchists, not communists.
The anarchist state in that novel: “Please leave us alone”
Evil capitalist empire: “Okay sure, why not this is just fiction anyway”
For real, lots of things like that in the book. It also makes a case against anarchism while trying to make a case for it.
Knew I’d see this here. Rip Comrade Curry.
That idea may just be crazy enough to get the rest of us killed. We NEED the USSR here.
There are too many Moon Nazis there.
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