Arkady and Boris Strugatsky. The inhabited island (№ 262397)

He was picked up off the floor one of the albums, and jerks to turn the leaves. - What kind of world is dirtied, - he said - What a world! You look at the world!..
Gaius looked him in hand. In this album there were no horrors, just the landscapes of different places of amazing beauty and clarity of color photos - blue Bay, surrounded by lush greenery, the dazzling white city on the sea, a waterfall in a mountain gorge, some kind of great highway and the stream of colorful cars on it, and some ancient castles and snowy peaks above the clouds, and someone fun racing across a snowy mountain slope on skis, and laughing girls play in the surf...
- Where is it all now? - said Maxim. - Where did you all go, the damned children of the damned fathers? Defeated, muck, exchanged for iron... Oh, you... men...