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I've seen multiple covers for these weird time traveling Russian books. Can somebody point me to what these are? (i.imgur.com)
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[–] Thteven@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Looks like some AI shit to me.

[–] setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

These covers have been around for like 10 years, I pulled some of these pics from an old hard drive I had them saved on.

[–] FfaerieOxide@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

The first is Save the future! The Leader's "Time Traveler" by Viktor Poberezhnykh

Stalin gets in touch with Putin so that he can bring him back on to the right track, by declaring martial law and going to war with the United States.

The second is Crusader from the future: Commander from the Future Crusader series.

Our contemporary, abandoned in Antimir, where almost all of medieval Europe was conquered by Muslims, becomes the Commander of the knightly Order of the Holy Cross and the last hope of Christian civilization. Let all the former Commanders fall either from an enemy saber on the battlefield, or from a dagger and poison of assassins, and the Order itself, defeated by the Arabs, is on the verge of complete destruction; let the “popadanets” barely own cold weapons and sit on a horse like a dog on a fence, and against him are Polish pans, and corrupt clergymen, and warlocks, and Ugrians (Hungarians) who converted to Islam, but the Crusader from the future has 20 years of service behind him in the Soviet special forces, on the belt - the legendary blade, according to legend, belonged to John Chrysostom himself

The first author is reference here though the second is not.