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By the 1960s, the children’s magazine Murzilka by its own estimation, boasted a potential readership of twenty million children. Exactly how did the magazine inform these young readers about Soviet policy? How was the state of the Soviet project reported to children? In this paper, I consider the explicit political content published in the Soviet children's magazine Murzilka in the period 1956 – 1964 and discuss how children were kept abreast of the progress of communism.  Through analysis of written and illustrated content, I consider how a clear path to communism was explicitly presented to readers and how they were given agency and ownership of the Soviet project as future builders of communism.