I am russian, born in 1986 in the USSR, so naturally I grew up with soviet cartoons. I am so thankful for this video, because a lot of westerners have warped perception of soviet cartoons, thinking they were just blunt propaganda and brainwashing. I'd also add that each studio in the USSR had its unique style and themes. SoyuzMultFilm is the most famous, of course, but there also was ArmenFilm, from Armenia, famous for their trippy, psychodelic cartoons. And KievNauchFilm, from Ukraine, famous for their beloved series about cossacks.
I do think that public TV channels, regardless if they're from socialist countries or capitalist countries with a welfare state, do tend to give creators a lot of freedom to experiment with art and concepts that might not be commercially profitable but add something new to the social consciousness. I'm sure there were probably censors in the USSR which kinda limits creative freedom in different ways, but it was still good that they had a lot of public TV.
am from parts of what used to be east germany. always loved the re-runs of communist cartoons and russian fairy tales. west and east stay divided. how our people got absolutely robbed blind (reunificaiton my ass) didnt help that whole dynamic
I am Cuban and I remember growing up on "muñequitos rusos" or "Russian cartoons" as we collectively called all the animations from the socialist camp, from Hungary to Czechoslovakia, from GDR to Poland, and of course from the USSR, they were all a major part of my childhood.
Мои родители выросли в СССР, и они мне показывали каждый из этих мультфильмов. Это видио мне даёт много ностальгию, с новым взглядом на эти старые мультфильмы, спасибо!
There was a cartoon called Fillmore about the student safety squad that had an episode on students who cheat on test and how the competitive nature of the education system crushes students senses of self worth
In Brazil, we have a state-owned channel, TV Cultura, known for its excellent children's content. It features shows on regional culture, science, and international programs that teach valuable lessons. In the 2010s, ads targeting children were banned on TV, which led other private owned channels, airing shows like Ben 10 and Dragon Ball Z, to drop their kids' programming due to lack of commercial viability. However, TV Cultura continued. Unfortunately, due to budget constraints, the channel is now struggling. As a Russian language learner, Soviet culture enthusiast, and comrade, thank you for your service and the valuable references in your descriptions.
When my daughter was a toddler in the early 2000s my wife and I were so appalled by the media oriented towards children that we went look for alternatives and found an bunch of keretek (a series of highly regarded videos from Czechoslovakia in the 70s) videos at our local library in queens, I found out later that my mother who was a grade school librarian in the 60s and 70s had quietly replaced all the Disney products in her grade school and replaced them with better quality materials including kereck videos. I’ve read that East German children’s programming was also quite highly regarded and was of course defunded immediately upon reunification
@@7OwlsWithALaptop The Mole is Czechoslovak, Easter Germany is mostly known for: Sandmännchen Pittiplatsch und Schnatterinchen (former Show: Meister Nadelöhr erzählt) Hoppla Brummkreisel Of course we had German dubs of the little Mole from Czechia, Mézga Család from Hungary and close to all of the Soviet series. What a fun time seeing them :)
This was so great! I remember reading Audre Lorde’s account of her trip to Russia, in which she mentions children’s cartoons and I’ve always meant to find out more. So thank you! She wrote “we visited a film studio and saw several children’s cartoons which handled their themes beautifully, deeply, and with great humor, and most notably, without the kind of violence that we have come to associate with cartoons. They were truly delightful.”
As someone who teaches children I have often had to speak with parents on the fact that their kids only don't know something cause they never had the chance to have to know it. Some parents over correct for negligent ones by being overbearing and trying to protect their children from any and all challenge and responsibility. In our sport we each utilize personal equipment and with the kids once they are strong enough to hold their own equipment we start teaching them how to do it themselves and those who are allowed to fail and keep trying themselves (our rule is, we will help but you have to try on your own first) learn it incredibly quickly while those who have parents who insist on always doing it themselves always take forever to learn and usually only after we insist with the parents to just let the kids grow up. Give your kids agency, let them fail but protect them from the worst consequences of said failure. That's how they learn to become independent on confident people while also being grateful for the help they have received and willing to pass it on
I learned russian as a foreign language and one of my favorite things to do is see how india is seen in soviet movies. The uzbek soviet republic filmed an adaption of a rabindranath tagore story. It was nice
Oh my god I love how the cat literally says, "What are you, a cop?" I actually never realized how twisted children's media is under capitalism. Children's stories are meant to impart pro-social values onto children but capitalism is so fundamentally anti-social, it creates this kind of weird uncanny valley version of children's media. What the fuck is going on with Paw Patrol? I guess I consume so little children's media I never really think to apply this kind of analysis the way I do to other forms of media. Also omg I love that little fluffy giant-eared creature it's so cute!
It's weird how any media that has to do with high school involves a weird social hierarchy that no one actually experiences in real life. Like jocks, nerds, etc. It's so unnatural that even when it's all over media, it's still not represented in most real conditions. Sure there are people who are more nerdy or sporty but they tend to still intermingle with each other. There's also the insistence that losers exist in this kind of media. Which is such a cruel anti-social message to put in children's media. Then they usually solve their loser situation by appealing to the upper class, and then it's a happy ending somehow.
What you were saying about subverting people's modes of cooperation has proven so true with America's recent natural disasters in which people are being prevented from helping each other for the benefit of "aid vendors" with government contracts. The national guard is NOT helping people BUT is employed to stop volunteers from helping people.
What a contrast to the kind of Animation we grew up with in West Germany, which above all were violent (i.e. Tom & Jerry) or enforced capitalist worldviews (there is always a company and a boss). Thank you so much for introducing these animations to us. Your summaries alone made me both laugh and cry. I can confirm what was said about the people in socialist countries being more caring for one another. I live in China and although China has adopted certain capitalist characteristics, the solidarity among the people is still very strongly to be felt if one gets close to them or is in need of help. It's a very different mentality. I always hope they can keep this mentality and not become too influenced by the Western ways. As you mentioned Harry Potter I would love to see a video about Harry Potter from a socialist view, but then all your videos are always inspiring, so I have no doubt whatever you'll do next will be just as good. 🙂
You should do more videos on soviet movies. I've only scratched the surface with what's avalable by Mosfilm on TH-cam, but damn, did they make some fine movies
@@ernestkhalimov1007 I really liked Afonya but I found it to be more depressing than funny. Maybe It's Because I don't speak russian and the subtitles were kinda janky. But from what I heard, people still love and quote this movie in Russia today
@@matheusvillela9150 i found it funny until Afonyas life had worsened after he got arrested and the movie became depressing in various scenes with some relief sprinkled throughout the rest of the movie and the last good relief where the young lady crushing on him finds Afonya before he boards the plane ride to nowhere which kinda leaves a positive open ending despite his life having fallen apart.
I certainly recommend "kin dza dza". It's kind of depressing and funny, but overall it's an insanely cool sci fi movie which even has good subtitles. Also my favourite cartoon " pilot brothers " which is basically an absurdist Sherlock Holmes parody
I always get sad watching these Soviet cartoons, not because they're bad, but because I'm disappointed that the kids of the modern generation are poisoned with garbage that passes for entertainment and are deprived of amazing cartoons like Cheburashka. These cartoons are part of the reason why I'm obsessed with promoting Marxism until my last breath.
This is what the capitalists took from us. Instead of beautiful Soviet cartoons we have the 400th recycled generic isekai/slice of life/shonen/ecchi romcom of the year. Maybe Miyazaki was onto something.
Marx wanted all the Russians dead. If Marxism became dominant it would try to destroy these cartoons as surely as the germs did. In fact you outright succeeded in 1991.
Soviet animation is so cool. It always seems to have this wistful feel to it, like the actions of the characters take place outside the constraints of time
I remember there was a Soviet cartoon of a sheep (goat?) who had a balloon which made them happy. But then the balloon popped and that made them sad. So they gathered the remains of the balloon in a sack and went on a journey. And along the way they distributed(?) the pieces of the balloon while telling everybody their story. At the end the sack was empty and the sheep (goat?) learned that sharing your worries reduces your worries. ("Shared worry is half the worry" or something like that)
as an american born in 1996, i did watch soviet union cartoons as a child, because it was in bargain bins for my gambin' grandma. maybe she bargained right because im an american socialist artist
I just saw the one about the African man and the Animals taking his home being representative of the colonialist powers. A bit reductive but probably very good intro to the concept of colonialism for children.
German media is often really horrifying. But there's one show that's really great, it's called "DIE Sendung mit der Maus" ("The Broadcast with the Mouse"). It's airing for 50 years. In every episode they have one part where they scientifically explain something relatable to children. It's the only show I let my child watch, and I really like to watch it too, and I know a lot of adults who like to watch it too.
Hell yeah, that show is super popular in Austria too, I always watched it as a kid. I didn't realise it at the time but it always felt much more human and comforting than all the other commercial cartoons.
Toxic masculinity makes it hard to speak to this as an ideal. My upbringing, unfortunately, makes my first impulse to look down on the idolization of friendship as feminine. Sigh. Life is weird. Underneath my programming, I wholeheartedly agree with the sentiment you speak to. Great video. The comment of Harry Potter was interesting. I'd like to hear your analysis of that I'll check your channel for it
i've never commented on your channel but i absolutely loved this video. i will definitely be watching these cartoons myself. I've been developing my knowledge in socialism and communism, and i really appreciate the education.
And Moydodyr makes you afraid of washstands. At least my gruncle was really afraid of him. I'd personally hangout with wolf from "Once upon a dog". He's so chill.
I genuinely teared up watching this because I have two little girls (2 and 4), and they’re so adorable in that they’re always trying to be helpful, and I want them to live in a society where these values are actually encouraged instead of focusing on individualism and violence to solve problems.
Omg, you translated that letter so well! I’ve watched Prostokvashyno so many times, but I never found the letter as funny as I did hearing your translation! Hilarious!!!
Worked in a used bookstore and collected unusual (and unusual foreign) kids' books, I had two Soviet-era Russian kids books that were about a crocodile that was in the Army (?) and a book about why you should become an Olympic athlete. I think, since I can't read them and would only go by the pictures. These were high quality kids' books and on par with anything America printed.
thank you for pointing that book out, i could only find a audio book with a comically cheap sounding A.I. voice made only 2 weeks ago. The Soviets Expected it By Anna Louise Was a true masterpiece.
When I was a kid, I mostly watched Looney Tunes and stuff like that. These characters like the Roadrunner, Wile E. Coyote, Elmer Fudd, Daffy Duck, Bugs Bunny, and so on, would always be getting into fights and trying to kill each other. It was mostly just tons of senseless violence but it was made to look fun and entertaining. I am American, obviously. I never really thought about what values that glorified until just now when you asked that in this video. Heh, it is funny now that I think back on it, how messed up a lot of the stuff the American media promotes is that I saw as a kid. When I got a little older I watched shows like South Park, Futurama, or Family Guy, and, umm... yeah they kinda are just more sophisticated versions of what happened in Looney Tunes... it seems like all of American animation is like that. I guess that is why I prefer Japanese anime, it has such richer storytelling and isn’t just nihilistic humor, and has much more variety of genres to it, and much more creativity in the writing. But I have to say, these Soviet animations are very charming and I wish I could watch them with English subtitles. I have also seen other animation from countries like France and mainland China, and it is also quite charming too, although not promoting socialist values the same way as Soviet animations. Although if you watch enough Japanese anime, you will see quite a few critiques of things like capitalism, Japanese society, and American imperialism that turns Japan into essentially a U.S. colony. A lot of times it is not explicitly stated in anime but a bit more subtle. Most of the Chinese animation I have seen is part of a genre about Taoism and things like cultivating immortality, very similar to fantasy anime except with Taoist inspiration instead of Shinto and Buddhist. It is a bit different because the concept of cultivating immortality is unique to Taoism. I am a little surprised that Chinese animation doesn’t do more to try to promote communism or anything. It seems like the government of China doesn’t actually control the messages in Chinese animation, at least not the Chinese animation I see, which is almost all made by the company Bilibili, a for-profit company based in Shanghai, which I think is one of those special economic zones that is quite capitalist.
7:40 I wanna quickly mention that there’s a difference between private property and personal property, no communists won’t take your toothbrush or your house because those are personal property, but if you own a massive farm or a few factories and stuff, then that will be seized for collective property for all rather than you earning money off of that as your own private property
Why not? Communism is about equity. The large house owned by the Capitalist with unused rooms will absolutely be siezed to house those who have suffered under capitalism. Only way to achieve equity is to take back those assets.
@@ltmund yes those types of housing will be taken, and houses only owned for renting will be siezed, but I meant like proletariat average person 99% type houses, because he average persons house wont be taken, yet the rich will have theyre houses taken/siezed because they are usually massive mansions that could be better as homeless shelters, hospitals, police stations, goverment buildings, or anything else like a food store. You get it
@@roboticshulk9468 Of course, the proletariat will not be effected. But those who have afforded their property via private ownership of the means of production (and share holders are Capitalists) must return their gains to the collective.
@@ltmund yes I agree with this and I naver stated I was against this, infact I had already stated I agreed with you when I mentioned property owned via the means of production
You should do the same video about soviet movies, there's so much more in them. Aspecially: Irony Of The Fade, Mimino, 12 Chairs, Gentemen Of Good Luck, Office Romance, Kin-Dza-Dza and A Man From The Boulevard Des Capucines. After this video it's a must have
I can not explain enough how little me would have eaten these shows up. Any scrap of good to help people, anyway I could show kindness or witness good values in shows I was so invested in. From My little Pony (it's not perfect but it has it's good points), Sofia the first, and joining girl scouts to help out around the community when I was real little.
This is my favorite topic, i love thinking abt this⭐️ i grew up in switzerland but my father is russian so I had both western and eastern media bombarding me and i friggin loved it. Thankyou 4 the video
10:15 There was private property in Ussr , owned personaly by the owner like watches , houses , diches . The State only controles the means of production like factories By the way , if there was personal personnal , stealing was illegal and puniched by prison in peace time and execution in war time (ww2) I am not anti communist , communist have done great things by also commited atrocites in the cold war , both sides comited, Im only siting historical facts
12:00 the only thing I would say I dislike about the Brementown Musicians is how the robers are made to look like stereotypical gypsies (imo), which kinda perpetuates racist steriotypes.
Please do more of these, even films meant for adult audiences. It is always fascinating to see how different cultural choices can affect how it functions and the character of its citizens. Actually, I have heard of Lev Vygotsky. I learned about him when I was learning to become a teacher, and he was one of my favorite child psychologists.
Nu, pogodi taught me that it's about the journey, not the destination. But if your destination is eating some little guy I guess a lot of bad things might happen on the journey.
This is great, I was already looking forward to sharing my favorite Soviet cartoons with my kids as they grow up. But this video will help to explain why those cartoons are amazing to my American wife
I'm so pissed. I share all your videos, but I have no friends. The fact that you only have 10.6k subs just goes to show that life it's self is an injustice and I hate it... Love your videos and thank you.
This was a fun watch and if I can find these I'll check em out. I was also constantly looking at my tattoo of Eastern Europe's favorite cat and mouse duo: Worker and Parasite! (It's from a Simpsons episode and I got them on a banner as a tattoo as a low key communist high key Simpsons fan thing)
I have this dream of when I get the chance to play a game like dnd I'd make a character like the ones from that cartoon you talked about, a donkey 🐴, a cat 😺 and a crow 🐦⬛ under a trenchcoat pretending to be a human.
in Brazil we had our version of the "bremen musicians" called "os salimbancos", it was a musical adaptation for children's theater made by chico buarque, and in this version the animals are not only expelled from their homes by their owners, but then they meet again and decide to take revenge by expelling them from a mansion that belonged to them, this version is a criticism of the military and the bourgeoisie who took over the country between 1964 - 1985, and each animal represented a class: the donkey - the field workers, the dogs - the lower clergy of the military, generally small and not very powerful police officers, many of whom did not want to join the regime and were expelled, the chicken - the factory working class and the cat - the artists class, many artists of the time were against the regime and many were expelled from the country or arrested and tortured (or even killed) just like anyone else against the regime at that time
@@prodigal_southerner Don’t worry b0ss, I can teach you more about Cuba. Because of the revolution Cuba has erdicated extreme poverty. It has the lowest child death rate in the Americas and is also the only country in the western hemisphere with no child malnourishment. Cuba also enjoys a near zero rate of homelessness on top of having one of the best human development indexes. Cuba also has the best education system in latin america with a student to teacher ratio of 10:1 and one of the highest literacy rates in the world; It's like 99.7 percent or something crazy like that. That's a pretty big deal, in other countries like Mexico it's not uncommon for people to drop out of high school or elementary school because of their economic situation. My grandmother who lived in Mexico wasn't literate, but she still made an effort to memorize her bible all the time which is very admirable. There have been absolutely massive drop out of high school or elementary school because of their economic situation. My grandmother who lived in Mexico wasn't literate, but she still made an effort to memorize her bible all the time which is very admirable. There have been absolutely massive protests in Argentina of like 500,000 through a million people all throughout the country. Protests happen all the time in Latin America. All throughout 2021 the people of Colombia were protesting their corrupt narco US puppet government, yet one little ass protest in Cuba during the summer of the same year gets this disproportionate amount of attention from Western media. You're being brainwashed, also every country is a dictatorship, and Cuba is way more democratic than the US. Before I continue please watch Badempenada's videos on the Cuban protests if you can. Over half of the Cuban national budget is used for social services. In Cuba healthcare is a human right. It's completely free, even hormone therapy and gender reassignment surgery is now free. Cuba is also the first country to eliminate mother-to- child transmission of HIV and has developed several vaccines against cancer and recently developed their own covid vaccines as well as a vaccine against Parkinsons. They also treated child victims of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster saving 8000 lives. Keep in mind all of this was achieved in a poor third world country under a harsh 60 year embargo by the most powerful country in the world. Imagine how powerful socialism could be it didn't have to deal with the forces of capital. To many Africans Fidel Castro is seen as a hero. He supported the anti-apartheid and anti-colonial movements in South Africa with both medical and and military assistance. He sometimes sent thousands of troops to help combat colonial forces as Amerikkka backed the overtly racist apartheid system. Nelson Mandela has nothing, but praise for Cuba. Castro offered the US help in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, but the Bush administration was too stubborn to except their offer because god forbid we help black Americans in their time of need. George Bush doesn't care about black people. This is why the Black Lives Matter twitter account tweeted Rest in Power Fidel Castro when he died five years ago. All of the dumb takes of Cuba come from third generation Republicans who are the descendants of wealthy white Cubans who fled to Miami. Of course from their perspective Fidel is very bad. Conservatives think the Earth is flat, why would you take anything they say seriously?
19:09 Being from Russia, I have never once seen this in practice. Of course I really appreciate that this was written in theory but the practice has been pretty much the exact opposite. That said, I do see socialists in the West treating children with a lot of respect. Overall a very nice video. I grew up with soviet cartoons and can confirm that they're wonderful and teach great lessons. It's also refreshing to see a video promoting socialism without any delusional harmful garbage like praising Lenin, Stalin or Soviet government as if it was the best thing since sliced bread.
If you ever do a part 2 I’d love to hear your analysis on The light blue puppy Africa story The Khalif-stork I think the first two are good for this type of video and the last one can be squeezed in there
I really do believe that Soviet Culture is going to influence more and more future creative projects in the United States, the more and more accessable they've become on the Internet, their uniqueness, creativity, and style will become more seen throughout other work.
I appreciate your media analysis. This makes me a bit nostalgic because I see in what dire straights the Zoomers are, living in a capitalist hellscape that actively disdains literacy, friendship and kindness.
Loved this video! It's always interesting to me to see how a socialist superstructure works to create socialist cultural values. I admittedly already watched this on the Patreon, but I'm commenting for the algorithm. 👍 I always learn so much from your stuff so I'm very excited for your next video too! Especially since it was my suggestion that won the Patron poll >:3
Soviet child media is an extremely interesting topic. So I think there is one more topic that can be discussed: vision of the future in soviet science fiction (like “Guest from the future” or “Third planet’s mystery”). Do you have some plans on covering this topic in your analysis?
absolutely lovely video! learning about the everyday life and cultural institutions of socialist countries offers a holistic and enlightening counterpart to reading theory
I love love love love these more positive and optimistic videos!! Such a nice, inspiring and energizing change of pace compared to all the horrible news coming out today.
In the American version of Cheburashka, Gana, obviously from a country to our south, would be in tazed by several officers after he'd already been handcuffed and Chaska, being brown, would've been shot on site simply for existing. Then the "peace" officers would be given a month paid time off but they would work neighboring jurisdictions for the overtime. Since they're already getting PTO, any shift is overtime, which nets officers 1.5x. any extra over that phantom 40 and an the actual 40 would be between 2.5-3.5x. All of which is matched, untaxed, in their 401ks. Average salary in Seattle is 142k.. that's $68/hr, $100/hr OT, and $170/hr doubleOT. then matched, $138/hr, $200/hr, $340/hr. These motherfuckers are not working class. Doctors don't make that kind of scratch. Only bankers and techbros game the public as bad as the police do. Why do we spend over half of every city budget on the police?! They're job is to stop crime, and yo, they've done nothing but fail at that task since their inception. Stop throwing good money after bad.
The only cartoon that i've watched made during the socialist era of Eastern Europe is Miś Uszatek (Teddy Drop Ear), but i was so small i can't remember anything (i was 5 or 6 when i stopped watching it). Our national TV bought the rights from polish national broadcaster😁
Amazing video! Does anyone know if there is a sub eng version of these cartoons, and if so where to find it? i would really like to see them and understand how they decide to portray all these ideas.
I can just see how behaviours are different between eastern european and western people my parents show behaviours of being more lax about borrowing things while english friends of mine could never thing of stealing or borrowing things
How do you think Revisionism in the CPSU under Khrushchev and Brezhnev affected the socialistic themes of Soviet cartoons, especially considering the argument that the Khrushchev coup of 1956 spelled the end of the dictatorship of the proletariat in the USSR?
Are you saying old Scooby Doo didn't teach values???? Just kidding. One subversive American cartoon was Rocky and Bullwinkle. The lessons were often pro socialism and satirical of capitalism, but the villains were an incompetent pair of Soviet spies, Boris and Natasha. Many old American cartoons were subversive and taught socialist values in suggestive or metaphoric ways. Upon watching old Bugs Bunny, I am often astounded at the adult political satire that flew over children's heads. Things I am surprised were allowed and suspect could not have happened in any adult media of the time.
I've grown up on these cartoons as well, but never ever looked at them from this angle. I now want to rewatch them and others... The biggest mystery: What does "Nu pogodi!" teaches us... Also, 🦜, I would definitely hang out with a parrot if I were a cartoon character
10:37 Something about this is giving me a strange case of daja vu and I know why. The Fearless Four is a very similar concept..... and I'm sure a LOT of drugs were involved. Actually this looks like it was made on drugs too.
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While I'm here I'm obliged to say that George Lucas Always said that Soviet Filmmakers had more freedom than those in America.
Dude you could literally pass any Soviet cartoon as an US one.
@@WorkersofAmericaRisego to hell
@@WorkersofAmericaRise I feel you could be slightly biased with that pic/name lad
@@PaddyDAngelo No
@@WorkersofAmericaRiseMaybe today you could, *maybe*. For sure not during the Cold War though.
I am russian, born in 1986 in the USSR, so naturally I grew up with soviet cartoons. I am so thankful for this video, because a lot of westerners have warped perception of soviet cartoons, thinking they were just blunt propaganda and brainwashing. I'd also add that each studio in the USSR had its unique style and themes. SoyuzMultFilm is the most famous, of course, but there also was ArmenFilm, from Armenia, famous for their trippy, psychodelic cartoons. And KievNauchFilm, from Ukraine, famous for their beloved series about cossacks.
I do think that public TV channels, regardless if they're from socialist countries or capitalist countries with a welfare state, do tend to give creators a lot of freedom to experiment with art and concepts that might not be commercially profitable but add something new to the social consciousness. I'm sure there were probably censors in the USSR which kinda limits creative freedom in different ways, but it was still good that they had a lot of public TV.
am from parts of what used to be east germany.
always loved the re-runs of communist cartoons and russian fairy tales.
west and east stay divided.
how our people got absolutely robbed blind (reunificaiton my ass) didnt help that whole dynamic
Also, the parents in Prostokvashino DO THE DISHES TOGETHER, unlike in the western cartoons where the mom is always a housewife slave
Yesss we love an equal division of domestic labor!! I was gonna mention something about that but totally forgot so I'm glad you brought it up haha
I am Cuban and I remember growing up on "muñequitos rusos" or "Russian cartoons" as we collectively called all the animations from the socialist camp, from Hungary to Czechoslovakia, from GDR to Poland, and of course from the USSR, they were all a major part of my childhood.
Fond memories, my friend.
Greetings to beautiful Cuba from the former GDR :D
Мои родители выросли в СССР, и они мне показывали каждый из этих мультфильмов. Это видио мне даёт много ностальгию, с новым взглядом на эти старые мультфильмы, спасибо!
@@canadianradiochemist4465 Тяжело использовать переводчик?
Большое спасибо! Это меня очень радует! :)
There was a cartoon called Fillmore about the student safety squad that had an episode on students who cheat on test and how the competitive nature of the education system crushes students senses of self worth
In Brazil, we have a state-owned channel, TV Cultura, known for its excellent children's content. It features shows on regional culture, science, and international programs that teach valuable lessons. In the 2010s, ads targeting children were banned on TV, which led other private owned channels, airing shows like Ben 10 and Dragon Ball Z, to drop their kids' programming due to lack of commercial viability. However, TV Cultura continued. Unfortunately, due to budget constraints, the channel is now struggling. As a Russian language learner, Soviet culture enthusiast, and comrade, thank you for your service and the valuable references in your descriptions.
Easy fix, just make an "18+" dub with swearing or something.
When my daughter was a toddler in the early 2000s my wife and I were so appalled by the media oriented towards children that we went look for alternatives and found an bunch of keretek (a series of highly regarded videos from Czechoslovakia in the 70s) videos at our local library in queens, I found out later that my mother who was a grade school librarian in the 60s and 70s had quietly replaced all the Disney products in her grade school and replaced them with better quality materials including kereck videos. I’ve read that East German children’s programming was also quite highly regarded and was of course defunded immediately upon reunification
The ones with the mole right?
@@7OwlsWithALaptop
The Mole is Czechoslovak,
Easter Germany is mostly known for:
Sandmännchen
Pittiplatsch und Schnatterinchen (former Show: Meister Nadelöhr erzählt)
Hoppla
Brummkreisel
Of course we had German dubs of the little Mole from Czechia, Mézga Család from Hungary and close to all of the Soviet series.
What a fun time seeing them :)
This was so great! I remember reading Audre Lorde’s account of her trip to Russia, in which she mentions children’s cartoons and I’ve always meant to find out more. So thank you! She wrote “we visited a film studio and saw several children’s cartoons which handled their themes beautifully, deeply, and with great humor, and most notably, without the kind of violence that we have come to associate with cartoons. They were truly delightful.”
(It’s in the book “Sister Outsider” in case anyone is wondering)
Soviet cartoons keep collecting Ws
As someone who teaches children I have often had to speak with parents on the fact that their kids only don't know something cause they never had the chance to have to know it. Some parents over correct for negligent ones by being overbearing and trying to protect their children from any and all challenge and responsibility. In our sport we each utilize personal equipment and with the kids once they are strong enough to hold their own equipment we start teaching them how to do it themselves and those who are allowed to fail and keep trying themselves (our rule is, we will help but you have to try on your own first) learn it incredibly quickly while those who have parents who insist on always doing it themselves always take forever to learn and usually only after we insist with the parents to just let the kids grow up. Give your kids agency, let them fail but protect them from the worst consequences of said failure. That's how they learn to become independent on confident people while also being grateful for the help they have received and willing to pass it on
I learned russian as a foreign language and one of my favorite things to do is see how india is seen in soviet movies. The uzbek soviet republic filmed an adaption of a rabindranath tagore story. It was nice
Oh my god I love how the cat literally says, "What are you, a cop?"
I actually never realized how twisted children's media is under capitalism. Children's stories are meant to impart pro-social values onto children but capitalism is so fundamentally anti-social, it creates this kind of weird uncanny valley version of children's media. What the fuck is going on with Paw Patrol?
I guess I consume so little children's media I never really think to apply this kind of analysis the way I do to other forms of media.
Also omg I love that little fluffy giant-eared creature it's so cute!
"I'm gay and correct" lmao same
Cheburashka / Topple is super cute
It's weird how any media that has to do with high school involves a weird social hierarchy that no one actually experiences in real life. Like jocks, nerds, etc. It's so unnatural that even when it's all over media, it's still not represented in most real conditions. Sure there are people who are more nerdy or sporty but they tend to still intermingle with each other.
There's also the insistence that losers exist in this kind of media. Which is such a cruel anti-social message to put in children's media. Then they usually solve their loser situation by appealing to the upper class, and then it's a happy ending somehow.
Oh, I'm tickled to find you on this video.
You are being totally disingenuous if you believe that no social hierarchy exists in real life and especially in school. It's idealistic nonsense
3:57 that statistic is for literacy rate in English, it doesn’t include people who are literate in Spanish or Chinese but not in English
What you were saying about subverting people's modes of cooperation has proven so true with America's recent natural disasters in which people are being prevented from helping each other for the benefit of "aid vendors" with government contracts. The national guard is NOT helping people BUT is employed to stop volunteers from helping people.
It's almost like government is the problem, and giving unfettered power to it is a bad thing. Now where might that have happened in history?
The story with the crocodile is a great introduction for kids into metaphysics versus dialectics.
What a contrast to the kind of Animation we grew up with in West Germany, which above all were violent (i.e. Tom & Jerry) or enforced capitalist worldviews (there is always a company and a boss). Thank you so much for introducing these animations to us. Your summaries alone made me both laugh and cry.
I can confirm what was said about the people in socialist countries being more caring for one another. I live in China and although China has adopted certain capitalist characteristics, the solidarity among the people is still very strongly to be felt if one gets close to them or is in need of help. It's a very different mentality. I always hope they can keep this mentality and not become too influenced by the Western ways.
As you mentioned Harry Potter I would love to see a video about Harry Potter from a socialist view, but then all your videos are always inspiring, so I have no doubt whatever you'll do next will be just as good. 🙂
god I love this channel
You should do more videos on soviet movies. I've only scratched the surface with what's avalable by Mosfilm on TH-cam, but damn, did they make some fine movies
I personally like the movie Afonya
@@ernestkhalimov1007 I really liked Afonya but I found it to be more depressing than funny. Maybe It's Because I don't speak russian and the subtitles were kinda janky. But from what I heard, people still love and quote this movie in Russia today
@@matheusvillela9150 i found it funny until Afonyas life had worsened after he got arrested and the movie became depressing in various scenes with some relief sprinkled throughout the rest of the movie and the last good relief where the young lady crushing on him finds Afonya before he boards the plane ride to nowhere which kinda leaves a positive open ending despite his life having fallen apart.
I certainly recommend "kin dza dza". It's kind of depressing and funny, but overall it's an insanely cool sci fi movie which even has good subtitles. Also my favourite cartoon " pilot brothers " which is basically an absurdist Sherlock Holmes parody
@@ernestkhalimov1007 I thought the ending was sad. The girl deserves so much better than him
I always get sad watching these Soviet cartoons, not because they're bad, but because I'm disappointed that the kids of the modern generation are poisoned with garbage that passes for entertainment and are deprived of amazing cartoons like Cheburashka. These cartoons are part of the reason why I'm obsessed with promoting Marxism until my last breath.
This is what the capitalists took from us. Instead of beautiful Soviet cartoons we have the 400th recycled generic isekai/slice of life/shonen/ecchi romcom of the year. Maybe Miyazaki was onto something.
Hey! cartoons like Clarence and the Looney tunes show do not come under "garbage". But yeah I hate the cancellations
Marx wanted all the Russians dead. If Marxism became dominant it would try to destroy these cartoons as surely as the germs did. In fact you outright succeeded in 1991.
Okay boomer
@@el-karasu6070 boomers hate socialism
Soviet animation is so cool. It always seems to have this wistful feel to it, like the actions of the characters take place outside the constraints of time
But... The wolf and the hare? My favorite cartoon as a child 😢 We demand part 2!
I used to watch Nu Pogodi all the time!! Perhaps I will make a part 2 at some point...🌝
I remember there was a Soviet cartoon of a sheep (goat?) who had a balloon which made them happy. But then the balloon popped and that made them sad. So they gathered the remains of the balloon in a sack and went on a journey. And along the way they distributed(?) the pieces of the balloon while telling everybody their story. At the end the sack was empty and the sheep (goat?) learned that sharing your worries reduces your worries. ("Shared worry is half the worry" or something like that)
as an american born in 1996, i did watch soviet union cartoons as a child, because it was in bargain bins for my gambin' grandma. maybe she bargained right because im an american socialist artist
I wish there were more people like you in real life
I just saw the one about the African man and the Animals taking his home being representative of the colonialist powers. A bit reductive but probably very good intro to the concept of colonialism for children.
I don’t disagree, but keep in mind the context it was made in and the fact it was made for children
German media is often really horrifying. But there's one show that's really great, it's called "DIE Sendung mit der Maus" ("The Broadcast with the Mouse"). It's airing for 50 years. In every episode they have one part where they scientifically explain something relatable to children. It's the only show I let my child watch, and I really like to watch it too, and I know a lot of adults who like to watch it too.
Hell yeah, that show is super popular in Austria too, I always watched it as a kid. I didn't realise it at the time but it always felt much more human and comforting than all the other commercial cartoons.
It's right here on TH-cam as well @diemaus
Great video. Do more soviet cartoons please!. Also, subscribed.
I absolutely love The Brementown Musicians, It's my favorite cartoon of all time!
Toxic masculinity makes it hard to speak to this as an ideal. My upbringing, unfortunately, makes my first impulse to look down on the idolization of friendship as feminine. Sigh. Life is weird. Underneath my programming, I wholeheartedly agree with the sentiment you speak to. Great video. The comment of Harry Potter was interesting. I'd like to hear your analysis of that I'll check your channel for it
I think your awareness of it means you can turn it around faster than you think, at least I hope so cause I'm trying darn it
i've never commented on your channel but i absolutely loved this video. i will definitely be watching these cartoons myself. I've been developing my knowledge in socialism and communism, and i really appreciate the education.
And Moydodyr makes you afraid of washstands. At least my gruncle was really afraid of him.
I'd personally hangout with wolf from "Once upon a dog". He's so chill.
I genuinely teared up watching this because I have two little girls (2 and 4), and they’re so adorable in that they’re always trying to be helpful, and I want them to live in a society where these values are actually encouraged instead of focusing on individualism and violence to solve problems.
Omg, you translated that letter so well! I’ve watched Prostokvashyno so many times, but I never found the letter as funny as I did hearing your translation! Hilarious!!!
Thank you!!
Worked in a used bookstore and collected unusual (and unusual foreign) kids' books, I had two Soviet-era Russian kids books that were about a crocodile that was in the Army (?) and a book about why you should become an Olympic athlete. I think, since I can't read them and would only go by the pictures. These were high quality kids' books and on par with anything America printed.
revolutionary th0t just dropped
thank you for pointing that book out,
i could only find a audio book with a comically cheap sounding A.I. voice made only 2 weeks ago.
The Soviets Expected it By Anna Louise
Was a true masterpiece.
When I was a kid, I mostly watched Looney Tunes and stuff like that. These characters like the Roadrunner, Wile E. Coyote, Elmer Fudd, Daffy Duck, Bugs Bunny, and so on, would always be getting into fights and trying to kill each other. It was mostly just tons of senseless violence but it was made to look fun and entertaining. I am American, obviously.
I never really thought about what values that glorified until just now when you asked that in this video. Heh, it is funny now that I think back on it, how messed up a lot of the stuff the American media promotes is that I saw as a kid. When I got a little older I watched shows like South Park, Futurama, or Family Guy, and, umm... yeah they kinda are just more sophisticated versions of what happened in Looney Tunes... it seems like all of American animation is like that.
I guess that is why I prefer Japanese anime, it has such richer storytelling and isn’t just nihilistic humor, and has much more variety of genres to it, and much more creativity in the writing.
But I have to say, these Soviet animations are very charming and I wish I could watch them with English subtitles. I have also seen other animation from countries like France and mainland China, and it is also quite charming too, although not promoting socialist values the same way as Soviet animations. Although if you watch enough Japanese anime, you will see quite a few critiques of things like capitalism, Japanese society, and American imperialism that turns Japan into essentially a U.S. colony. A lot of times it is not explicitly stated in anime but a bit more subtle.
Most of the Chinese animation I have seen is part of a genre about Taoism and things like cultivating immortality, very similar to fantasy anime except with Taoist inspiration instead of Shinto and Buddhist. It is a bit different because the concept of cultivating immortality is unique to Taoism. I am a little surprised that Chinese animation doesn’t do more to try to promote communism or anything. It seems like the government of China doesn’t actually control the messages in Chinese animation, at least not the Chinese animation I see, which is almost all made by the company Bilibili, a for-profit company based in Shanghai, which I think is one of those special economic zones that is quite capitalist.
I grew up watching soviet cartoons, they are great. Cheburashka always made me laugh and cry.
You've been a great channel. I also enjoy how you pronounce Russian words. Very few Russian speakers who talk to an English speaking audience.
She’s diaspora I think
@@Magnesium-BasedLifeform-i9e Yeah, she came from Russia originally and moved her at a young age.
Not much point in talking to an english speaker. To merely know the language is to be brainwashed.
7:40 I wanna quickly mention that there’s a difference between private property and personal property, no communists won’t take your toothbrush or your house because those are personal property, but if you own a massive farm or a few factories and stuff, then that will be seized for collective property for all rather than you earning money off of that as your own private property
Why not? Communism is about equity. The large house owned by the Capitalist with unused rooms will absolutely be siezed to house those who have suffered under capitalism. Only way to achieve equity is to take back those assets.
@@ltmund yes those types of housing will be taken, and houses only owned for renting will be siezed, but I meant like proletariat average person 99% type houses, because he average persons house wont be taken, yet the rich will have theyre houses taken/siezed because they are usually massive mansions that could be better as homeless shelters, hospitals, police stations, goverment buildings, or anything else like a food store. You get it
@@roboticshulk9468 Of course, the proletariat will not be effected. But those who have afforded their property via private ownership of the means of production (and share holders are Capitalists) must return their gains to the collective.
@@ltmund yes I agree with this and I naver stated I was against this, infact I had already stated I agreed with you when I mentioned property owned via the means of production
Compare these to modern cartoons, where the main objective is to make the children addicted, for example by an increased rate of cuts per minute.
You should do the same video about soviet movies, there's so much more in them. Aspecially: Irony Of The Fade, Mimino, 12 Chairs, Gentemen Of Good Luck, Office Romance, Kin-Dza-Dza and A Man From The Boulevard Des Capucines. After this video it's a must have
I can not explain enough how little me would have eaten these shows up. Any scrap of good to help people, anyway I could show kindness or witness good values in shows I was so invested in. From My little Pony (it's not perfect but it has it's good points), Sofia the first, and joining girl scouts to help out around the community when I was real little.
This is my favorite topic, i love thinking abt this⭐️ i grew up in switzerland but my father is russian so I had both western and eastern media bombarding me and i friggin loved it. Thankyou 4 the video
10:15 There was private property in Ussr , owned personaly by the owner like watches , houses , diches .
The State only controles the means of production like factories
By the way , if there was personal personnal , stealing was illegal and puniched by prison in peace time and execution in war time (ww2)
I am not anti communist , communist have done great things by also commited atrocites in the cold war , both sides comited, Im only siting historical facts
12:00 the only thing I would say I dislike about the Brementown Musicians is how the robers are made to look like stereotypical gypsies (imo), which kinda perpetuates racist steriotypes.
Please do more of these, even films meant for adult audiences. It is always fascinating to see how different cultural choices can affect how it functions and the character of its citizens. Actually, I have heard of Lev Vygotsky. I learned about him when I was learning to become a teacher, and he was one of my favorite child psychologists.
Nu, pogodi taught me that it's about the journey, not the destination.
But if your destination is eating some little guy I guess a lot of bad things might happen on the journey.
This is great, I was already looking forward to sharing my favorite Soviet cartoons with my kids as they grow up. But this video will help to explain why those cartoons are amazing to my American wife
Thank you! Aww that makes me happy to hear :)
I'm so pissed. I share all your videos, but I have no friends. The fact that you only have 10.6k subs just goes to show that life it's self is an injustice and I hate it... Love your videos and thank you.
This was a fun watch and if I can find these I'll check em out. I was also constantly looking at my tattoo of Eastern Europe's favorite cat and mouse duo: Worker and Parasite! (It's from a Simpsons episode and I got them on a banner as a tattoo as a low key communist high key Simpsons fan thing)
I'm working on it. Trying to get people to talk more.
I have this dream of when I get the chance to play a game like dnd I'd make a character like the ones from that cartoon you talked about, a donkey 🐴, a cat 😺 and a crow 🐦⬛ under a trenchcoat pretending to be a human.
in Brazil we had our version of the "bremen musicians" called "os salimbancos", it was a musical adaptation for children's theater made by chico buarque, and in this version the animals are not only expelled from their homes by their owners, but then they meet again and decide to take revenge by expelling them from a mansion that belonged to them, this version is a criticism of the military and the bourgeoisie who took over the country between 1964 - 1985, and each animal represented a class: the donkey - the field workers, the dogs - the lower clergy of the military, generally small and not very powerful police officers, many of whom did not want to join the regime and were expelled, the chicken - the factory working class and the cat - the artists class, many artists of the time were against the regime and many were expelled from the country or arrested and tortured (or even killed) just like anyone else against the regime at that time
Really well done! I’m so glad you do this. Thank you, Comrade!
keep up the great work! And NGL, the troubadour is kinda swanky... 🐕 🦡
He's so cool, and in the sequel they totally yassified him so he's like, absurdly sexy for a children's cartoon lmao
Can we see a cartoon about Gorbachev and Yeltsin? lol
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God, the more I learn about Cuba the more I love it.
Y'all are some *very* confused aryans.
@@yaelz6043Aryans?
I love how blatant your dogmatism is
@@prodigal_southerner Don’t worry b0ss, I can teach you more about Cuba. Because of the revolution Cuba has erdicated extreme poverty. It has the lowest child death rate in the Americas and is also the only country in the western hemisphere with no child malnourishment. Cuba also enjoys a near zero rate of homelessness on top of having one of the best human development indexes. Cuba also has the best education system in latin america with a student to teacher ratio of 10:1 and one of the highest literacy rates in the world; It's like 99.7 percent or something crazy like that. That's a pretty big deal, in other countries like Mexico it's not uncommon for people to drop out of high school or elementary school because of their economic situation. My grandmother who lived in Mexico wasn't literate, but she still made an effort to memorize her bible all the time which is very admirable. There have been absolutely massive drop out of high school or elementary school because of their economic situation. My grandmother who lived in Mexico wasn't literate, but she still made an effort to memorize her bible all the time which is very admirable. There have been absolutely massive protests in Argentina of like 500,000 through a million people all throughout the country. Protests happen all the time in Latin America. All throughout 2021 the people of Colombia were protesting their corrupt narco US puppet government, yet one little ass protest in Cuba during the summer of the same year gets this disproportionate amount of attention from Western media. You're being brainwashed, also every country is a dictatorship, and Cuba is way more democratic than the US. Before I continue please watch Badempenada's videos on the Cuban protests if you can.
Over half of the Cuban national budget is used for social services. In Cuba healthcare is a human right. It's completely free, even hormone therapy and gender reassignment surgery is now free. Cuba is also the first country to eliminate mother-to- child transmission of HIV and has developed several vaccines against cancer and recently developed their own covid vaccines as well as a vaccine against Parkinsons. They also treated child victims of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster saving 8000 lives. Keep in mind all of this was achieved in a poor third world country under a harsh 60 year embargo by the most powerful country in the world. Imagine how powerful socialism could be it didn't have to deal with the forces of capital. To many Africans Fidel Castro is seen as a hero. He supported the anti-apartheid and anti-colonial movements in South Africa with both medical and and military assistance. He sometimes sent thousands of troops to help combat colonial forces as Amerikkka backed the overtly racist apartheid system. Nelson Mandela has nothing, but praise for Cuba. Castro offered the US help in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, but the Bush administration was too stubborn to except their offer because god forbid we help black Americans in their time of need. George Bush doesn't care about black people. This is why the Black Lives Matter twitter account tweeted Rest in Power Fidel Castro when he died five years ago. All of the dumb takes of Cuba come from third generation Republicans who are the descendants of wealthy white Cubans who fled to Miami. Of course from their perspective Fidel is very bad. Conservatives think the Earth is flat, why would you take anything they say seriously?
❤ love this channel!!!!
19:09 Being from Russia, I have never once seen this in practice. Of course I really appreciate that this was written in theory but the practice has been pretty much the exact opposite. That said, I do see socialists in the West treating children with a lot of respect.
Overall a very nice video. I grew up with soviet cartoons and can confirm that they're wonderful and teach great lessons. It's also refreshing to see a video promoting socialism without any delusional harmful garbage like praising Lenin, Stalin or Soviet government as if it was the best thing since sliced bread.
If you ever do a part 2 I’d love to hear your analysis on
The light blue puppy
Africa story
The Khalif-stork
I think the first two are good for this type of video and the last one can be squeezed in there
I really do believe that Soviet Culture is going to influence more and more future creative projects in the United States, the more and more accessable they've become on the Internet, their uniqueness, creativity, and style will become more seen throughout other work.
I grew up with these and comparing to the western children media of the 2010s communist shows and movies held up extremely well
Based! I'm going to have to track these down! I'd also recommend the soviet version of treasure island (Остров Сокровищ)
I appreciate your media analysis. This makes me a bit nostalgic because I see in what dire straights the Zoomers are, living in a capitalist hellscape that actively disdains literacy, friendship and kindness.
Loved this video! It's always interesting to me to see how a socialist superstructure works to create socialist cultural values. I admittedly already watched this on the Patreon, but I'm commenting for the algorithm. 👍
I always learn so much from your stuff so I'm very excited for your next video too! Especially since it was my suggestion that won the Patron poll >:3
Thank you!! Hehe I'm excited for the next video too, I hope I can do the topic justice!
Soviet child media is an extremely interesting topic. So I think there is one more topic that can be discussed: vision of the future in soviet science fiction (like “Guest from the future” or “Third planet’s mystery”). Do you have some plans on covering this topic in your analysis?
This is an excellent video !! Thank you so much for your work :)
Thank you!!
The video was great, thanks for making top tier content, I enjoy your media analysis and style!
Love what you do. Thank you
absolutely lovely video! learning about the everyday life and cultural institutions of socialist countries offers a holistic and enlightening counterpart to reading theory
algorithm be a beast
I love love love love these more positive and optimistic videos!! Such a nice, inspiring and energizing change of pace compared to all the horrible news coming out today.
In the American version of Cheburashka, Gana, obviously from a country to our south, would be in tazed by several officers after he'd already been handcuffed and Chaska, being brown, would've been shot on site simply for existing.
Then the "peace" officers would be given a month paid time off but they would work neighboring jurisdictions for the overtime. Since they're already getting PTO, any shift is overtime, which nets officers 1.5x. any extra over that phantom 40 and an the actual 40 would be between 2.5-3.5x. All of which is matched, untaxed, in their 401ks.
Average salary in Seattle is 142k.. that's $68/hr, $100/hr OT, and $170/hr doubleOT. then matched, $138/hr, $200/hr, $340/hr. These motherfuckers are not working class. Doctors don't make that kind of scratch.
Only bankers and techbros game the public as bad as the police do.
Why do we spend over half of every city budget on the police?! They're job is to stop crime, and yo, they've done nothing but fail at that task since their inception. Stop throwing good money after bad.
7:21 the cop bumping his head. 😆
The only cartoon that i've watched made during the socialist era of Eastern Europe is Miś Uszatek (Teddy Drop Ear), but i was so small i can't remember anything (i was 5 or 6 when i stopped watching it). Our national TV bought the rights from polish national broadcaster😁
Bruh, the rant about capitalism making everyone an asshole. Real shit. You could do a whole video on that.
have u seen the glass harmonica ? one of my fav soviet cartoons 🐑🪿🦭
Great analysis.
In Bremenskiye, the stress is on the first syllable.
Thank you!
Lol oops it turns out I've been pronouncing it wrong forever. My parents say it that way too, I guess I gotta break the news to them 😂
This is such a great video essay.
Amazing video! Does anyone know if there is a sub eng version of these cartoons, and if so where to find it? i would really like to see them and understand how they decide to portray all these ideas.
I can just see how behaviours are different between eastern european and western people my parents show behaviours of being more lax about borrowing things while english friends of mine could never thing of stealing or borrowing things
How do you think Revisionism in the CPSU under Khrushchev and Brezhnev affected the socialistic themes of Soviet cartoons, especially considering the argument that the Khrushchev coup of 1956 spelled the end of the dictatorship of the proletariat in the USSR?
Are you saying old Scooby Doo didn't teach values???? Just kidding. One subversive American cartoon was Rocky and Bullwinkle. The lessons were often pro socialism and satirical of capitalism, but the villains were an incompetent pair of Soviet spies, Boris and Natasha. Many old American cartoons were subversive and taught socialist values in suggestive or metaphoric ways. Upon watching old Bugs Bunny, I am often astounded at the adult political satire that flew over children's heads. Things I am surprised were allowed and suspect could not have happened in any adult media of the time.
This is my new favourite video of yours.
Another great video! Also, love your outfit!
I am from the country that sent some american news in frenzy because we depicted a magic phallus as a main part of a children's show.
Stop grooming kids, Euroid
Glory to socialism! 🎉
Jusr want to say thanks for this wonderful video.
21:27 This needs no caption
This channel is so underrated please let me eat your makeup
Excellent video!
cheburashka is so wholesome
comment for the algorithm
This is gay, and correct
@@Izomak12I am gay so you’re right
Stay strong humanity :D
My big take away from Nu pogodi and uncle Theo is that the people on TV take the bus, just like everyone else.
I've grown up on these cartoons as well, but never ever looked at them from this angle. I now want to rewatch them and others... The biggest mystery: What does "Nu pogodi!" teaches us...
Also, 🦜, I would definitely hang out with a parrot if I were a cartoon character
10:37 Something about this is giving me a strange case of daja vu and I know why. The Fearless Four is a very similar concept..... and I'm sure a LOT of drugs were involved. Actually this looks like it was made on drugs too.
Love the cartoons. I think tho they didn't quite reflect Soviet reality but that's another story 😉
I wish there were Pokémon emojis cuz that’s what I would put, but I would choose a guinea pig or a dog 🐹 🐶