Does this name invoke anything to anyone?
Like it does tickle little nostalgia to me?.
Misha(also known as Mishka) was the mascot of 1980
Moscow Olympics and the cute brown bear was an instant favourite that Disney
brought Misha into Mickey Mouse comics as a guest from Russia. MIR, the Soviet
Union's publication house started a children's magazine called 'Misha' soon.
They used to have folk stories, science fiction, some make it yourself stuffs,
science and cultural tid-bits and Chess tutorials, the national game of USSR.
My grandfather used to subscribe for
'Sovietland' magazines long back. Maybe that is how, when Misha came through,
he subscribed for that as well. My father says those magazines used to be very
cheap at that time. I guess it was Prabhat Books, that took the subscriptions
for the MIR publications books and magazines. I don't recollect reading
Sovietland, but definitely yes, the memory of indulging in children's magazine
'Misha', lies just like that in mind, maybe little tattered.
Sometime before we grew up to realise the
novelty of such magazines, USSR was gone, Misha and Sovietland had stopped, and
whatever that was left at home was given away to bottle-paper collectors. I had
been searching for that in internet for a while, that is when I came across
this!
PS. Does anyone still hold any old copies
of Misha? or Sovietland? Just curious!
