Wanna know a cool story? There was a young boy living in a post WWII Japan and one day he went to local cinema where he heard SOVIETS brough in their cartoons, as a part of humanitarian aid to postwar Japan. And he went there. And saw absolutely jaw dropping "Snow Queen" made by Lev Atamanov. And he was absolutely mesmerized and decided that his lifetime goal now is to make animation. This boy's name was Hayao Miyazaki =)
@@DanielKotovsky Well, a lot of people are admiring his works, but I've also read what the man was writing about his life 🙂 By the way, when in 2007 Studio Ghibli museum made a reissue if that old soviet cartoon, on a poster they quoted Miyazaki "My fate and my favourite film."
-Where to take the money? -We need to sell something. -What? -Something unnecessary. -To sell something unnecessary, you first need to buy something unnecessary, but we have no money. Meeting about the business plan in the cartoon Prostokvashino.
So does & Wally Gator, with a hat & tie! But, Wally doesn't want to be on his work post as an aligator & tries to escape on every opportunity! Wally lives in socialism😂
@@willmaurPI You don't get it. Zoos exist so that kids would come and have a great time, so Gena works there because he loves kids. He actually lives in an apartment outside the zoo and plays chess with the zoo keeper, so he could walk away any time, but he likes his job. That's Soviet philosophy for ya :)
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
Regarding the completely incorrect narratives people believe about the USSR (especially people in the US - like myself), I love the interaction with law enforcement in the first cartoon here. It's a good message, and as RT said, completely different than "law enforcement" in the US. It also seems to be generally true, at least relatively. I can't remember the details, but recall a story where some kids were messing around, and ended up causing a lot of alarm (like about a potential military, maybe even nuclear threat?). It was serious, but the authorities ultimately basically ended up being like "Well, kids will be kids." [I'm sure they got a talking to, but still.] Completely counter to the narrative of the "ultra repressive USSR." Imagine a similar thing happening in the US! I doubt the cops/state would be nearly as understanding -
@@Cassedy3 I think the one that is most memorable is a trippy one with the butterfly and alien, I watched it at least a hundred times with my father lol, I would have to search to find out the name though
It some Soviet cartoons you can see different types of families, but the vast majority had a working woman. There was a domestic problem in USSR: women were liberated and free to work back in its beginning, it was illegal to be unemployed, but..the choirs were still on them and meant to be their responsibility. There was a documentary issued in 1981 where many people were interviewed about their opinion on "who is the head of your house". Some said "man should be", some said so but confessed their wife manages finances and do most of the choirs, some tol that wife has the leading role(such as many women responded) and some shared the harmony and balance they had in relationship.
@@revolutionaryth0t So the woman working at home and the man working wherever his job is is not an equal division of labor? I find it hard to believe someone called "revolutionarythot" has worked a day in her life and has the right to even talk about how people should work.
@@Chechen_NatSoc The term 'equal division of labour' is a term in sociology in order to refer to how domestic tasks are split between a married couple. So, for example: housework that they do together (e.g. man doing the laundry and women doing the dishes) creates an equal division of labour - it doesn't just account for work you get paid for, it accounts for the housework, childcare, organisation of finance and emotional work done by a family unit. Studies done by Young and Wilmott (1973) and Sullivan (2000) explore the ideas of symmetrical families. Also when you say 'the woman working at home', do you mean housework or paid work? as they are very different and housewives were often unfulfilled and doped up on tranquilizers. Plus, many working class women/wives didn't even have the choice to work at home and had to work in factories.
The most radical difference the western entertaiment media have compared to USSR are the "superhero" idea. In USSR there could be no "superhero". It could and would be a hero, but he will be regular guy made hard descision and being better version of himself. And even there, he will do only what he can, but eventually will be supported by other people (or die trying, like Nipper-Pipper). It is never be a solo magically-evermighty hero who will save the day, so you don't even have to try if you have no such powers. No, it always has been a message that every one could be a hero, when courage combined with competence. I'm telling it as a USSR child brushed with such amazing and glimmering western media in an age of teen and learned a conception of super-hero for the 1st time.
It probably says something about the inherent sociability of the human spirit that, despite all the toxic "rugged individualism" Western superhero media generally espouses, those of them that tend to be regarded as the *very best written* often follow that same pattern - facing hard decisions, becoming a better version of oneself, doing what one can but hitting one's personal limits and ultimately prevailing only with the support of society. From each according to ability, to each according to need.
This idea was actually was embedded into modern Russian attempt of writing their own comic book universe (by Bubble company). The very first "superhero" and the most popular one who even received his own movies was a hard-working police officer who was fighting supervillains. So their main spin was "you're a superhero if you fight supervillains", which means you don't need to have special powers, or be above the law by being vigilante. What you need to do is fight with the odds. They've mostly ditched that idea lately, but it was a very nice spin, which respnates with how Russians think of what heroism is.
This also can have a much more morbid interpretation. A Soviet cartoon hero most similar to a Western image of superhero is, of course, Uncle Styopa, a character of a poem written by Serghei Mikhalkov, later an author of Soviet anthem. It was a minor obscure poem that suddenly exploded in popularity a year after release. It's a poem for small children, and the premise is simple: Uncle Styopa is a giant, a grotesquely gigantic man of good heart, beloved by his friendly neighbours, who walks around a Soviet town and randomly helps people in unique ways because of his enormous height. Naturally, to publish a poem, even as a minor trowaway thing, Mikhalkov had to change the ending: in the original poem he ended up working as a human lighthouse, coordingating ships, while in the published one he voluntarily enlists into Soviet Navy. And, when the poem became a huge hit, in a much anticipated sequel, Uncle Styopa joins Soviet police force and now helps people as an officer. There are lots of 'ultraheroic' types of characters in Soviet cinema, from Shtirlitz in "Seventeen Moments of Sping", to Gleb Zheglov in "The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed", up to Little Boy-Kibalchish. However, what unites them is that all of them resolve problems when working for the state, and as authorized by the state. There is no place for super-heroism and vigilantism in Soviet Union simply because there is no way in which an individual can take matters into their own hands, without being placed into Soviet hierarchy, or at least being authorized by a call from party leadership. Everything for the state, nothing outside the state.
Thats amazing. And what’s sad is western or American in particular are never show social idea’s in that same way and are taught to skeptical of anything from Russia. America literally brainwashed children to be selfish and isolated.
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.
I am nineteen, have soviet parents and recently rewatched smeshariki. There is so much wisdom and stuff for thought in between the lines. Even though its post soviet it somehow shares the same set of morals like chiburashka for example. Edit: instead of somehow I should have said: because it was written and produced by soviet people.
“Fun” fact: it’s almost impossible to sell “Smeshariki” outside former Soviet countries because they do not fit any TV former. Pre school design + serious topics.
С одной стороны видео мне понравилось, с другой стороны очень странно слышать все эти идеи на английском. Никогда не задумывался насколько "по-коммунистически" это звучит со стороны. Видимо это опять же показывает различия в воспитании разных стран с ранних лет.
Для нас это абсолютная норма с раннего детства, Советское наследие все ещё во многом с нами культурно и где-то даже социально. На Западе это все в новинку, там много замечательных людей разделяющих ценности которым учат наше советское медиа, но живут они в мире собачьем, поэтому так это необычно для них.
@@comradejet9373Называть мир иностранцев собачьим, что за дискриминация? Для вас разве непонятно что везде есть и добро и зло и что все люди живут в одном мире?
@krenskjnat Не дискриминация, это ничуть не оценка людей которые там живут, а жизни которую они вынуждены жить. Жизнь, она нигде не сладкая, конечно, но как послушаешь от ребят как им там живётся, особенно в пресловутых США, так и своя черствая булка порой сладким пирогом покажется. Я ведь не иностранцев собаками назвал, наоборот, они нам куда ближе чем некоторые сотвечественники в высоких кабинетах, это важно понимать. Как важно понимать и то что у нас есть хотя бы советское наследие, которое нам до сих пор помогает, на которое можно ровняться и от которого многому можно научиться, а у них даже такого нет.
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.
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.
You will be welcome in Russia, I guess. I saw a lot of videos of Canadians and Americans coming to live here and receiving warm welcome. Though it aint easy here too. But our people could learn how to defend our rights from you
Soviet media are great for that. I was born in Soviet Russia but grew up in Europe. My mother really did a good job of giving me and my brother access to both Soviet and Western Media and I enjoyed both, taking the best from both worlds. But I have to say Soviet media just make the best cartoons for younger children and the best movies. I will watch a Soviet movie over a Western one every single time of I have to choose. They are amazing, particularly the kid and whimsical stuff.
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
One of my favorite films as a child was "Ali Baba and the 40 Robbers," directed by Latif Faiziyev with Umesh Mehra. The other was the "Black Prince Ajuba" by Shashi Kapoor and Gennady Vasilyev.
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
Yeah, I always felt a lot of these cartoons had a feeling of a sort of gentle melancholy, for lack of better words. Perhaps even more acute now that the country and a system that made them no longer exists.
The robbers from Brementown Musicians are animated versions of a real actor trio called "The Coward, The Blockhead and The Seasoned", reoccuring meta-characters played by Georgiy Vitzin, Yuri Nikulin and Yevgeniy Morgunov. Soviet cinema, especially movies by Leonid Gaidai, oftentimes featured these kinds of meta-characters, who are not literally the same person between movies, but embody the same archetype and are played by the same actors. The trio was very beloved by soviet moviewatchers, especially Nikulin.
as a russian it took me a sec to realise who those "the coward, the blockhead and the seasoned" were. never heard anybody talking aht them in english 🫠
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 :)
Damn. You didn't allow your kid to watch courage the cowardly dog show, etc? Almost all the best 2D cartoons came from a Russian named Genndy tartakovsky that aired in the USA like samurai Jack etc
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.
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.”
I was intrigued by how it handled conflict. What I have come to dislike about American media, even in fiction, is how overemphisized conflict is. People always have to be in conflict and fight. It's refreshing to see people try to work it out and then work together to do it. I remember a good example of this in a cartoon show called Winx Club. It's from Italy originally, and in the first English dub, the circle of girls at the boarding school who were supposedly friends were just always catty to each other to the point you wondered why they even hung out. Later on a different company did a much more faithful dub and the girls acted like normal friends to each other who usually got along well and were able to resolves conflicts in a sensible way. I wondered, why did the first one have to make them all such adversarial people when they were supposed to be friends? It's like without nasty conflict, they think people won't be interested? These Soviet cartoons certainly paint a world that seems more open to dialogue and reason, where people encourage each other instead of trying to enforce hierarchies. God, even being seen as your own person with your own initiative and rights, even as a child... I would have liked that a child. Being fobbed off even when you were giving your all was very disillusioning, all because they didn't want to have to deal with you. Encouragement was scares when rules had to be followed, procedures followed, I's dotted and T's crossed. Adulthood ain't much different. I gotta find these.
That's so wild about the original Winx dub! I hate how so much American media makes interpersonal conflicts that could be solved by just being nice and having a conversation a major plot point. It's why I don't watch a ton of American media in general, so much of it is literally just people being jerks to each other.
Solving conflict peacefully was reason of existence of certain already russian cartoon. Smeshariki are canonically "a world without violence" propaganda. Everyone from 14 to 27 know them.
Winx Club was extremely popular in Russia. I never thought about it, but maybe what you wrote is one of the reasons why it was so popular. Every girl wanted to have a group of close friends, like the girls in the series had (Also, it had a good russian dub lol)
I'm Russian, but i don't mind when characters bicker for fun. There's a difference tho. In American Cartoon, like TMNT 2003, a major plot conflict between characters could rise from some minor disagreement, which is idiotic. In Japanese cartoons, like One Piece, characters could have constant bickering, not all of them, but it has two guys who are at constant rivalry. But with common goal, they always help each other out. Tho, in most Japanese cartoons characters are friendly to each other like in Soviet ones. One Piece is an Anime about Pirates.
Fun fact: The Bremen Musicians cartoon (both the first and the second film) was having a difficult time getting through the censors. It took a while to actually air the cartoon on television. The censors were saying that the troubadour, his style, his whole vibe was too Western, and not socialist at all, actually.
Это брехня, как и большая часть рассказов про советскую цензуру. И к тому же нелогичная. Сначала запрещали, а потом разрешили? Цензоров просто уговорили, что ли? Надо же, какая милая советская цензура, если её можно уговорить))
@@maybebutwhatever , всё, что в "совке" поменялось -- это ядрёная брехня а-ля ж-л Огонёк в конце 80-х, когда "генеральная линия партии" окончательно повернулась в сторону буржуев. Всё остальное -- влажные фантазии деток антисоветчиков, таких как ты, лапоть. Например, как дурацкий рассказ про "несоциалистический" вид бременских музыкантов))
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!!!
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.
Nu pogodi was meant to show the bad vices (wolf was smoking, drinking, stealing), bad choices and violence doesn't pay off. Compare It to Tom and jerry where it's all about how much each other hurt themselves.
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)
Maybe what you're remembering is an episode of soviet Winnie Pooh? There were like 3 episodes, and one of them told a story of Winnie and Pyatochock (the piglet) trying to give Ia the Donkey birthday presents. The Piglet wanted to give a balloon, but It poped on the way, he still gave It to Ia, told its story holding back tears, but it still made Ia happy because the attention mattered more to him. Hope this helps
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!
From the bottom of my heart thank you for making these videos, I would be completely lost without these. 😭😭 I’m Ukrainian and a high schooler and struggle with connecting to my culture and roots because there’s not much Slavic community to find in America, much less community that isn’t heavily conservative and educated about history. I started a club to try and make a small community and it feels nice to see channels like this talk about things that directly connect to MY history and MY people, and not America. Idk I just feel so thankful like girl you have no idea how lost I’d feel trying to set up the meetings without some guidance and wisdom from this channel 😭🙏
@@chazdomingo475 And then they argue that being an asshole is human nature. No the fuck it isn’t, we just have a system that encourages and rewards being an asshole while punishing empathy and kindness!
@davew4939 to be fair, humans are absolutely inherently capable of both kindness AND cruelty. Usually, selfishness and greed are born out of fear of not having enough resources and survivalist instincts, which can turn ugly. Fear can distort and pollute anyone, which is why it is used as a best tactic of control.
Справедливости ради - сцена с компрессором не имеет смысл и в рамках СССР: уголовное наказание за воровство все равно было. Компрессор все равно принадлежал какой-то организации. Но т.к. это мультфильм естественно эти моменты опущены и Гену никто не наказал. А ещё у них трансформаторная будка вообще никак не закрыта. Рядом с детской площадкой. По поводу того, что Гена с Чебурашкой утащили якорь - это шутка, отсылка к тому, что в реальности пионеры действительно иногда уносили для сдачи на металлолом то, что металлоломом не являлось.
Allow me to translate for the benefit of English speakers Honestly, the compressor scene doesn't make sense even in the USSR. It still belonged to some organization, so Gena is still criminally liable for theft (as my own aside, he may have gotten away with it IRL with a sufficiently large cash bribe). The anchor scene is a joke about pioneers sometimes taking for scrap metal, things that definitely were not scrap metal. Also their electric transformer isn't locked, next to a playground no less. Ayo wtf.
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
Another incredible banger! But picking the transition music from Тайна Третьей Планеты? That's just unfair. Brings tears to my eyes every time. I'm infinitely grateful to my mama for taking care of my childhood education with Союзмультфильм. Eagerly awaiting for part 2! Птица Говорун отличается умом и сообразительностью, умом и сообразительностью.
Thank you! I'm glad someone noticed the music!! I love Тайна Третьей Планеты so much, I'll definitely be making a video about it in the future! I was originally going to include it in this video but it was getting too long
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
@@revolutionaryth0tif there would be part 2 then I would also love a mention of "The Mystery of the 3rd planet"... Which can segway into the Soviet movie "A Guest from the future" featuring the same character - Alisa Selezneva. And use this movie to compare with "the Terminator" a movie produced at about the same time and also featuring glimpses of future and time travel...
@@pavelZhd mystery of the third planet is one of my faves so I love this idea! I was originally going to include it in this video but it was getting too long so I figured I'd discuss it in a later video :)
Yugoslav kid here. As a socialist country opened to the West we were watching Bugs Bunny and Russian Wolf and hare one after another (Zagadyš ti u menya, zaec -sorry, no Russian letters on my keyboard) and I loved them both. I was taught English and Russian in my school. We used to fly with JAT (Yugoslav Air Transport) on school excursions to the isle of Hvar in Croatia. When I think of it today it seems like I was living someone else's life.
The bandits from Bremen Musicians taught me that it's ok when a woman has a masculine voice and that dancing well is a redeeming quality for being kind of mean and loud, which resulted into me enjoying drag shows as an adult
Пока пересматривал мартовский стрим Реми Майснера, выплыло видео в рекомендациях, решил глянуть и сразу же случился диссонанс, человек, говорящий без акцента по-английски, без акцента говорит Чебурашка, крокодил Гена, Простоквашино и прочее. Отличное видео, товарищ, продолжайте в том же духе ✊.
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.
Like this video! Also an interesting thing about the "Bremen Town Musicians" to understand the context. The atmosphere and images clearly show the culture of hippies, rock and roll and "the beatles vibe". These were the 60s, the fashion for Western music and self-expression was also among Soviet youth, despite the Iron Curtain. People bought records illegally and classic Soviet rock was largely inspired by, and sometimes plagiarized, Western rock. However, openly listening to foreign tracks was still prohibited, as a manifestation of "bourgeois culture" (interestingly, in America, on the contrary, the popularity of rock and roll was associated with the "hand of Moscow", which encourages young people to give up their careers, money and other Western values). In short, to some extent, the "Bremen Town Musicians" were the only way to do something provocative: children's content in the USSR was always treated more loyally than adult content and there you could experiment.
Um... Town musicians of Bremen is actually a classic tale by the Grimm brothers from the 1800's. But yes, the Soviet cartoon is the 1960's adaptation of the classic story. It had no "western" culture connotation for us (i grew up in USSR) , but rather is about the rebellious nature of youth in general. By the way, the voice overs ar by some of the best Soviet singers. Amazing voices. The songs are still my karaoke night favorites 😂
Gen X European here. I used to love these creative "communist animations"❤ before Animé came into our lives this was a big chunk of after school entertainment. Such creative work.
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?
Yes!! I was actually originally going to include mystery of the third planet in this video because it's another one of my faves but the script was getting too long so I ended up leaving it out, but I'll definitely be making a video about it and other Soviet science fiction in the future! :)
You should do more videos on soviet movies. I've only scratched the surface with what's avalable by Mosfilm on UA-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
Thanks in advance for the nostalgia trip. They don’t say “It was better” for nothing, these old cartoons are a big cornerstone of my childhood (and probably of a lot of other people’s too). Edit: just wanted to add that this was a great analysis video, it opened my eyes on some things I haven’t thought about.
Thank you!! Lucky us for having these cartoons define our childhoods :) although I missed living in the USSR by a whole year but I'm so glad I grew up with these cartoons.
@@revolutionaryth0t yeah, I myself was born more than 10 years after USSR, but thankfully, these cartoons didn’t disappear with it. With their preservation, it’s possible to still pass down their values to younger generation, as long as someone is willing to give a push)
I just read the book from Yurchak "Everything was forever until it was no more", and your video made me as sad as the book, for all the things we lost until the working class take the future in their hands again...
thank you for also taking the time to put a thorough references list in your description. your analysis was incredible. I came across your video because I started a Russian history class but my professor is aggressively anti-communism
Здравствуйте! Нет ничего плохого в коммунизме. Его специально демонизируют в капитализме, чтобы продолжать эксплуатировать рабочий класс. Если вы познакомитесь с трудами Карла Маркса и Ленина, вы, как Нео из матрицы, выпьете красную таблетку. Если только не струсите.
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.
By the way, speaking as an American who has seen a number of them, these cartoons are kind' a masterpieces in their own right even beyond the uplifting message----
Куда подует ветер - туда и облака. По руслу протекает послушная река. Но ты - человек, ты и сильный, и смелый. Своими руками судьбу свою делай: Иди против ветра, на месте не стой, Пойми, не бывает дороги простой! Где рельсы проложили - там ходят поезда. Куда пастух погонит - туда пойдут стада. Но ты - человек, ты и сильный, и смелый. Своими руками судьбу свою делай: Иди против ветра, на месте не стой, Пойми, не бывает дороги простой! Теперь не доверяют, как прежде, чудесам. На чудо не надейся, судьбой командуй сам. Ведь ты - человек, ты и сильный, и смелый. Своими руками судьбу свою делай: Иди против ветра, на месте не стой, Пойми, не бывает дороги простой!
17:45 true, but not exactly that - in USSR people were encouraged to move into cities for sake of industrialization (or sometimes villages were just in the way of a rapidly growing city, like in "Белые Росы" film) and were provided with an apartments (as the state is technically a landlord), so they usually just abandoned their houses entirely with all their stuff they won't need as a city dwellers. So usually those villages only had elderly people left who were not willing to leave the place they've spent their whole life in. The fact that village still has a postman attached to it says it's not completely abandoned yet, but pretty much about to be so, given how much time he spends with the main characters.
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. 🙂
That's so cool to hear about China! That sounds like a lovely environment to be in :) I might make a video roasting Harry Potter at some point, we'll see haha
Well, Soviet Union had its own "Tom and Jerry"("Ну, Погоди"), though the Soviet version benefits from not having a racial stereotype (a black servant).
🦊🦝 I would absolutely have left my parents and moved to the country with a cat I just met, as a child. That would have been my favorite film of all time
Love your marxist analysis. As a Russian born person, I've watched these cartoons a ton in the kindergarten and never revisited them again after reading more theory. This video feels like discovering the cartoons for the first time again.
16:30 "Prostokvashino" comes from prostokvasha(простокваша): it's name of the drink, that, in a fact, just a sour milk (if translate drink's name literally, we get "SimpleSour"). I could translate it like "Three from Sourmilk village".
As a Russian teenager, I'm very thankful for sharing that type of culture with others) Thanks! Some many ppl seem to live in a "bubble", we all should be a bit more open-minded to surrounding world to see the whole beauty of its.
in Brazil we had our version of the "bremen musicians" called "Os Saltimbancos" in 1977, it was a musical adaptation for children's theater made by Sergio Bardotti and Luis Enríquez Bacalov and adapted 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 and obviously the animal owners represented the military and the upper classes, the bourgeoisie, who supported the regime, in the play they were called 'barons' or 'bosses' by the animals
For real, I remember to see the interpretation of Os Saltimbancos by a local theatre in my city. Every 2 years they went to our school to perfom this piece to the children. I even remember part of the song until today: “Nós, gatos, já nascemos pobres, porém, já nascemos livres” Thanks for the comment, it brings back some good old memories 😊
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.
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.
I loved Die Sendung mit der Maus so much growing up, though I think my favorite show overall was Wissen macht Ah! were they also explain things. No idea if it's still running, used to be on KiKa after the Sandmännchen
I grew up with that show too when I was around 9 and 10. As you may know, Die Sendung mit der Maus is simply known as Mouse TV when it was first aired on a former Astro channel called Astro TVIQ.
Партия гордится тобой, товарищ! I was born in the post-Soviet space, and the legacy left by the previous civilization greatly influenced my development. Despite some negative aspects that were picked up and exaggerated by Western propaganda, it was a great country with the goal of creating a new, creative individual, free from the negative traits characteristic of a person raised in the conditions of savage capitalist competition. My grandmother worked as a doctor, and my grandfather was a school teacher, and they were able to build a large house without loans or mortgages, collect an enormous library, and raise four children. Citizens received free healthcare, the best education in the world, and the opportunity to freely develop their human potential. Many people who grew up in that country told me that under socialism they had no fear for tomorrow. P. S. I don’t want to restore the Soviet Union, but I do want socialism to emerge on a global scale, so we all live in a society without wealth inequality, without reasons for war, where every person by right of birth has shelter, food, and does not have to rent out their labor to survive. This is what communism means: “From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.”
@@d4cto Ну, во-первых, насчёт "countless", ты явно неправ, ибо попыток было не так много и все они поддаются анализу, во-вторых, пример того же СССР, который развалился вследствие отступления от социалистического пути развития, подтверждает, что много лет система может функционировать эффективно (сравни относительное состояние экономики СССР до косыгинских реформ и относительное состояние экономики современной капиталистической России), а в-третьих, твой заезженный либеральный тейк уже тысячу раз опровергнут) Капитализм в Демократической Республике Конго прекрасно же работает, да? Я же тоже могу сказать, что примеры капитализма по всему миру, и особенно в тех странах, где люди по какой-то причине устраивали революции и пробовали социализм или скатывались в фашизм, показывают, что капитализм точно так же не работает и в мировом масштабе является антигуманной системой.
@@rifod все справедливо, ты прав. Возьму на заметку, и спасибо, что не поленился все это написать. Только Демократическая республика Конго официально не социалистическая, но это besides the point.
@@Clockworkg1rl Действительно, не в РСФСР. Конечно, дом строился не сразу, а постепенно, в течение двух-трёх лет. Важна тут не конкретная география, а то, что люди имели возможность улучшить свои жилищные условия без влезания в долги. В наши дни средняя семья из учителя и врача на постсоветском пространстве вряд ли имеет такую возможность. Ну и на всякий случай уточню, что такого явления как "ипотека" в СССР не существовало.
The first part reminded me of something sad. In the 90, when I was growing up, the neighbourhood I lived in had a playground for children, Because of lack of investment it slowly declined. The last time I visited I noticed the playground was transformed into a parking lot. It made me very sad, and retrospective.
It's strange to read this. Now almost every yard has first-class playgrounds. Lots of sports grounds with excellent coverage, free exercise equipment. In the 90s, horror really happened, everything was destroyed, syringes were lying everywhere, I carried my daughters out onto the street in my arms from the entrance, so that they would not grab any muck.
My mother grew up with these cartoons, and used to play the 'Bremenskii Muzikanty' soundtrack in the car for me on road trips. I still know all the songs. The robbers singing about how the king has lots of money, and they love money, in that particular jolly-sinister way 😊
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.
My favourite soviet cartoons were "Snow queen" because the artstyle was so beautiful and magical, and "Hedgehog in the mist" because of creepy but somewhat comforting artstyle. Also I have a very distinctive childhood memory of sitting in my grandma's flat in winter and watching snow queen while eating syrki with tea)))
Ooo! Three years ago, when my granddaughter was four years old, I launched the cartoon "Hedgehog in the Fog" on her TV. Watching my granddaughter watching this cartoon without stopping was incomparable!
Great video! I’m always telling my friends how much better Soviet kids' movies are than American ones like Disney, but they never believe me. I was a little bummed you didn’t mention Незнайка на Луне as you talked about socialism and kids' films. I hope there will be a part two!
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.
Омг!!! Я так рад, что больше людей узнают о советской анимации. Я считай вырос на них, и честно, там очень много прекрасных мультфильмов и авторов, их создавших.
As a Russian myself, that grew up on these cartoons I can agree that the social values that these cartoons are wanting to teach us really affected my individual
This has gotta be one of my favourite youtube essays ever. Largely because you don't butcher all the names but pronounce them perfectly, but also because the analysis is very good and I really like how you're showing the english-speaking community those themes that are so important to us russian speakers.
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.
It was a book by Eduard Uspensky, "The Crocodile Gena goes to the army." Here is a short excerpt from this children's book: One day, crocodile Gena received a letter with a summons: "It is suggested that you come to the military enlistment office at eight o'clock in the morning with a mug, a spoon and a two-day supply of food. You are being drafted into the ranks of the active army. Congratulations. Commissioner Vintovkin (Rifle)". Gena agreed that Cheburashka would water his flowers and feed the fish on the window, took a mug and a spoon and together with Cheburashka went to the recruiting station. The commissioner looked at Gena and said: - Oh! You look kind of green and flat. And somehow you look subtly like a crocodile. - I am a crocodile. "Nothing,- the commissioner reassured him. - Don't despair. We have people worse than you. Gena was just a wonderful young fighter. He threw a grenade half a kilometer away. In hand-to-hand combat, he put five opponents on the ground with his tail at once. He boldly jumped from a parachute and perfectly disguised himself. "We would like a hundred thousand such fighters," said Colonel Sivolotsky, a famous paratrooper. - Then we are not afraid of any enemy! When the young fighters solemnly took the military oath, their parents came to everyone, and Cheburashka came to the crocodile Gena. "You've raised a good fighter," Colonel Sivolotsky told Cheburashka. Although it was the opposite. After all, it was the crocodile Gena who raised a good Cheburashka.
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
About Бременские музыканты I personally think it was overcomplication, and main story was about friendship and crazy, stupid things we can do in the name of love
Omg I love you breakdown of these cartoons, even though I watched them a bunch of times in my childhood, I never really thought about their meaning. Спасибо, товарищ Thot 😂😂😂😂😂
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
Also thank you for appearing on my dash, as a fellow slav who was mostly raised in US, finding a video essayist my age with a similar background and political inclination brings me a lot of joy
19:05 This is part of the reason that I think it's insane that the US allows religious-based private education. Parents should not be allowed to have that kind of control over the child's education. Even if it's not spoken, the sentiment is that the child is property of the parent until adulthood.
When public education is a failure, parents would rightfully look elsewhere. The sad part is that "elsewhere" usually, 99% of the time, means a religious private school. I consider myself lucky to have been in a non-religious semi-private school precisely because of both the failure of public education and the scary alternative
Really great video and generally great work. I really like the idea of analysing soviet cartoons to understand what the values and Ideas of the soviet were and what they, them self, wanted to teach there children. I am really facinated by this Idea. Especialy because i, as a Educater (Pädagoge in german), want to, one day, write a book, covering the pedagogy of the soviet Union from its start to its end. And videos like yours really show me that this is a work i have to get behind and make it real.
Спасибо вам, милая девушка, что рассказываете о наших мультфильмах❤ Советская мультипликация была и остаётся самой гуманистической в мире. Особенно щемящее чувство в сердце вызывала Сказка сказок Юрия Норштейна, всегда плакала.
Oh guys, glad you're watching Soviet cartoons. They are good, but there are certain aspects of them that are designed for people who lived in that time and in that society. I'm not talking about some deep meaning, it's mostly jokes and pointing out some problems and shortcomings. I was born in 86, but many things were explained to me by my parents, first of all I was a child, and secondly in the 90s there was no point in criticizing the Soviet Union, it didn't exist. Let's start from the beginning. Samuel Marshak's Cheburashka is a criticism of the Soviet system. It is still a children's fairy tale, designed to be read to children. But a huge number of jokes, designed for adults. For example, that crocodile Gena works in the zoo as a crocodile. Or that when they build a house, they can't do anything completely. Either they will bring them half of the bricks they need, or they will bring all the bricks but halfway down the road, or they will bring where they need, the right number of bricks, but it will not be whole bricks, but halves. In Prostokvashino there is a joke about the painting “And this painting has what task?; This painting has a very important task! It covers a hole in the wall!” - it's about the quality of Soviet mass housing. Or how the letter carrier Pechkin comes to Uncle Fedor every day with a parcel, because he is obliged to come according to the rules, but since he has no identity documents, he does not give the parcel to him. Another point is that all works in the Soviet Union were heavily censored. They had to conform to the “high socialist values of the builder of communism”. So even if I were asked to describe the values of the people who made them, I would do so with caution. Of course, any work bears the imprint of the culture of the people in which the creator lives. But what these same works criticized the Soviet system for was the gap between the declared and the real. Approximately the same thing is happening in Russia now. For example, Putin talks a lot about “traditional values”, the importance of marriage and the role of the family, as well as the rejection of “Western values”, especially scaring people about gays and same-sex families. But if you look at the numbers, Russia has a large number of divorces after marriage, and a lot of children from the 80's until now are growing up in same-sex families with mom and grandma as parents. My point is that there is a lot of nuance in judging a society's culture and values by works. Some things will be more noticeable on the outside of society, but some things can only be understood by knowing well how things work on the inside.
You've been probably born too late to get a grip of the Soviet culture. It was perfectly normal to criticize the problems in USSR, practically every comedy and stand-up comedian did it. The favorite targets were bureaucrats - i.e. those who make a career simply by following written rules and laws instead of genuinely wanting to improve the society. And have you ever read the books that was published in USSR in 1960s? Like Bulgakov's "Heart of the Dog" and Erdman's piece I can't name here due to the risk of triggering YT's automated free speech enforcement.
There is a cartoon about a rabbit being a trouble-maker, "Ну, Погоди!" and it can be seen similair to some part of looney toones, but something as big as the looney toons in it's universe and character variety - I don't think so. Although it is still a good cartoon on itself!! (I'm sorry for any mistakes, I'm still learning english language and mostly used translator for words)
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.
You can watch all of these with English subtitles on YT!! The auto translate from Russian to English is decent enough. And yeah, so much American animation is just "lol isn't violence hilarious?" That's very interesting about Chinese animation!
Most modern Chinese animationfor kids is pretty bad, so I doubt Chinese parents are showing them to their kids, but I wouldn't know. I grew up watching the old cartoons from the Golden and Silver Ages of Chinese animation, stuff like Havoc in Heaven. Most Chinese kids probably watch similar stuff to what my generation grew up watching (if they even have time to watch cartoons) and they also probably watch a lot of Japanese animation.
@@weirdofromhalo @revolutionaryth0t All I know is, Netflix has some good Chinese animated shows. No Doubt In Us, God Troubles Me, Scissor Seven, The Daily Life of the Immortal King and Qi Refining for 3000 Years... and previously they had Legend of Exorcism and Heaven Official's Blessing but Netflix removed those 2 for some reason. But they currently have 6 Chinese animated shows, along with the 2 they removed. And also the Nezha Chinese animated movies. All of it is really good stuff!
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
This is so lovely. I wish i had grown up with these cartoons instead of tom and jerry and the simpsons. Wonderful channel, youre my new parasocial crush now 😅 Thank you for all your hard work!
Btw theres a soviet Tom and Jerry exist It's quite different but still a slapstick animation comedy and It's called Well, Just You wait! 1696 or Nu pogodi/Ну, погоди!
I love how informed and thoughtful you were. My dad put these USSR animations on for us & I loved them. Still watch to this day because they're wholesome and have good morals. But the way u laid it out explains on a deeper level why I love them.❤😊 Also ur Russian is pretty good but some words seem off, is it ur 1st language?
Wanna know a cool story?
There was a young boy living in a post WWII Japan and one day he went to local cinema where he heard SOVIETS brough in their cartoons, as a part of humanitarian aid to postwar Japan.
And he went there. And saw absolutely jaw dropping "Snow Queen" made by Lev Atamanov. And he was absolutely mesmerized and decided that his lifetime goal now is to make animation.
This boy's name was Hayao Miyazaki =)
Wow! I never knew Miyazaki was inspired by Soviet creators.
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@@DanielKotovsky Well, a lot of people are admiring his works, but I've also read what the man was writing about his life 🙂
By the way, when in 2007 Studio Ghibli museum made a reissue if that old soviet cartoon, on a poster they quoted Miyazaki "My fate and my favourite film."
You didn't hear because it wasn't . its fantasy of author of comment@@DanielKotovsky
@@user-be8lt7ub4k Fantasy or not, I do not know, but the old Soviet cartoon "The Snow Queen" is great!
-Where to take the money?
-We need to sell something.
-What?
-Something unnecessary.
-To sell something unnecessary, you first need to buy something unnecessary, but we have no money.
Meeting about the business plan in the cartoon Prostokvashino.
Such a funny scene!!
I do quote it on every ocasion.
Think about his words in english for the first time😂
@@UPGREK92 But the correct translation is: -Where do we GET the money? Just FYI ))
Gena the Crocodile has a job. He works in the zoo as a crocodile.
He's also clearly a professional accordionist
So being in a cage is employment? Yeah, sounds like America.
@@willmaurPIhe was not in a cage, but in the swimming pool.
So does & Wally Gator, with a hat & tie! But, Wally doesn't want to be on his work post as an aligator & tries to escape on every opportunity! Wally lives in socialism😂
@@willmaurPI You don't get it. Zoos exist so that kids would come and have a great time, so Gena works there because he loves kids. He actually lives in an apartment outside the zoo and plays chess with the zoo keeper, so he could walk away any time, but he likes his job. That's Soviet philosophy for ya :)
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
Regarding the completely incorrect narratives people believe about the USSR (especially people in the US - like myself), I love the interaction with law enforcement in the first cartoon here. It's a good message, and as RT said, completely different than "law enforcement" in the US. It also seems to be generally true, at least relatively. I can't remember the details, but recall a story where some kids were messing around, and ended up causing a lot of alarm (like about a potential military, maybe even nuclear threat?). It was serious, but the authorities ultimately basically ended up being like "Well, kids will be kids." [I'm sure they got a talking to, but still.]
Completely counter to the narrative of the "ultra repressive USSR." Imagine a similar thing happening in the US! I doubt the cops/state would be nearly as understanding -
@@Cassedy3 I think the one that is most memorable is a trippy one with the butterfly and alien, I watched it at least a hundred times with my father lol, I would have to search to find out the name though
@@smartsmartie7142 Oh, you mean "Contact", this one ua-cam.com/video/v5vdc-HfEEA/v-deo.html . It scared me shitless as a kid x_x
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
It some Soviet cartoons you can see different types of families, but the vast majority had a working woman. There was a domestic problem in USSR: women were liberated and free to work back in its beginning, it was illegal to be unemployed, but..the choirs were still on them and meant to be their responsibility. There was a documentary issued in 1981 where many people were interviewed about their opinion on "who is the head of your house". Some said "man should be", some said so but confessed their wife manages finances and do most of the choirs, some tol that wife has the leading role(such as many women responded) and some shared the harmony and balance they had in relationship.
@@revolutionaryth0t So the woman working at home and the man working wherever his job is is not an equal division of labor? I find it hard to believe someone called "revolutionarythot" has worked a day in her life and has the right to even talk about how people should work.
Oh cool, while reading the Cyrillic letters. Im like "did I read that long word right"
@@Chechen_NatSoc The term 'equal division of labour' is a term in sociology in order to refer to how domestic tasks are split between a married couple. So, for example: housework that they do together (e.g. man doing the laundry and women doing the dishes) creates an equal division of labour - it doesn't just account for work you get paid for, it accounts for the housework, childcare, organisation of finance and emotional work done by a family unit. Studies done by Young and Wilmott (1973) and Sullivan (2000) explore the ideas of symmetrical families.
Also when you say 'the woman working at home', do you mean housework or paid work? as they are very different and housewives were often unfulfilled and doped up on tranquilizers. Plus, many working class women/wives didn't even have the choice to work at home and had to work in factories.
The most radical difference the western entertaiment media have compared to USSR are the "superhero" idea. In USSR there could be no "superhero". It could and would be a hero, but he will be regular guy made hard descision and being better version of himself. And even there, he will do only what he can, but eventually will be supported by other people (or die trying, like Nipper-Pipper). It is never be a solo magically-evermighty hero who will save the day, so you don't even have to try if you have no such powers. No, it always has been a message that every one could be a hero, when courage combined with competence. I'm telling it as a USSR child brushed with such amazing and glimmering western media in an age of teen and learned a conception of super-hero for the 1st time.
It probably says something about the inherent sociability of the human spirit that, despite all the toxic "rugged individualism" Western superhero media generally espouses, those of them that tend to be regarded as the *very best written* often follow that same pattern - facing hard decisions, becoming a better version of oneself, doing what one can but hitting one's personal limits and ultimately prevailing only with the support of society. From each according to ability, to each according to need.
This idea was actually was embedded into modern Russian attempt of writing their own comic book universe (by Bubble company).
The very first "superhero" and the most popular one who even received his own movies was a hard-working police officer who was fighting supervillains.
So their main spin was "you're a superhero if you fight supervillains", which means you don't need to have special powers, or be above the law by being vigilante. What you need to do is fight with the odds.
They've mostly ditched that idea lately, but it was a very nice spin, which respnates with how Russians think of what heroism is.
This also can have a much more morbid interpretation.
A Soviet cartoon hero most similar to a Western image of superhero is, of course, Uncle Styopa, a character of a poem written by Serghei Mikhalkov, later an author of Soviet anthem. It was a minor obscure poem that suddenly exploded in popularity a year after release.
It's a poem for small children, and the premise is simple: Uncle Styopa is a giant, a grotesquely gigantic man of good heart, beloved by his friendly neighbours, who walks around a Soviet town and randomly helps people in unique ways because of his enormous height.
Naturally, to publish a poem, even as a minor trowaway thing, Mikhalkov had to change the ending: in the original poem he ended up working as a human lighthouse, coordingating ships, while in the published one he voluntarily enlists into Soviet Navy.
And, when the poem became a huge hit, in a much anticipated sequel, Uncle Styopa joins Soviet police force and now helps people as an officer.
There are lots of 'ultraheroic' types of characters in Soviet cinema, from Shtirlitz in "Seventeen Moments of Sping", to Gleb Zheglov in "The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed", up to Little Boy-Kibalchish.
However, what unites them is that all of them resolve problems when working for the state, and as authorized by the state.
There is no place for super-heroism and vigilantism in Soviet Union simply because there is no way in which an individual can take matters into their own hands, without being placed into Soviet hierarchy, or at least being authorized by a call from party leadership.
Everything for the state, nothing outside the state.
Thats amazing. And what’s sad is western or American in particular are never show social idea’s in that same way and are taught to skeptical of anything from Russia. America literally brainwashed children to be selfish and isolated.
Does soviet Mowgli fit in that idea of superhero or similar?
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
@@GeorgKallenbach In Russian social media (VKontakte) we still have public groups of DDR's aesthetic lovers ;)
Did y'all have dragon ball?
That’s awesome
@@DelNiceBeto By piracy I guess so, as well as everyone else here in Latin America ╮(＾▽＾)╭
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 nineteen, have soviet parents and recently rewatched smeshariki. There is so much wisdom and stuff for thought in between the lines. Even though its post soviet it somehow shares the same set of morals like chiburashka for example.
Edit: instead of somehow I should have said: because it was written and produced by soviet people.
Yes, they also tackled a lot of serious topics like addiction, body image, feminism and climate change while staying kid friendly which is amazing
Смешарики - философский мультфильм для всех возрастов)
“Fun” fact: it’s almost impossible to sell “Smeshariki” outside former Soviet countries because they do not fit any TV former. Pre school design + serious topics.
Обожаю смешариков. Первый раз я их посмотрела, когда мне было 5 лет в 2005 году, сейчас до сих пор смотрю их периодически, большая фанатка.
They have been aired in Germany on a children's channel for a while, but with another name.
С одной стороны видео мне понравилось, с другой стороны очень странно слышать все эти идеи на английском. Никогда не задумывался насколько "по-коммунистически" это звучит со стороны. Видимо это опять же показывает различия в воспитании разных стран с ранних лет.
Точно, это уже в нашем ДНК будто заложено, что когда слышишь такой анализ со стороны немного непривычно:)
Я даже немного переосмыслил Простоквашино, лол, действительно неплохой анализ
Для нас это абсолютная норма с раннего детства, Советское наследие все ещё во многом с нами культурно и где-то даже социально. На Западе это все в новинку, там много замечательных людей разделяющих ценности которым учат наше советское медиа, но живут они в мире собачьем, поэтому так это необычно для них.
@@comradejet9373Называть мир иностранцев собачьим, что за дискриминация? Для вас разве непонятно что везде есть и добро и зло и что все люди живут в одном мире?
@krenskjnat Не дискриминация, это ничуть не оценка людей которые там живут, а жизни которую они вынуждены жить. Жизнь, она нигде не сладкая, конечно, но как послушаешь от ребят как им там живётся, особенно в пресловутых США, так и своя черствая булка порой сладким пирогом покажется. Я ведь не иностранцев собаками назвал, наоборот, они нам куда ближе чем некоторые сотвечественники в высоких кабинетах, это важно понимать. Как важно понимать и то что у нас есть хотя бы советское наследие, которое нам до сих пор помогает, на которое можно ровняться и от которого многому можно научиться, а у них даже такого нет.
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.
And in Colombia we have Dr Super O and Boletín del consumidor 👏👏👏👏👏👏
In Russia there is or was a TV channel called Культура. I don't watch TV since about 2004, so I don't know if it still exists.
@@End0fst0ry "Россия КУЛЬТУРА" на месте, один из лучших каналов
И намного меньшее количество политики ему идёт только на пользу
Ra-Tim-Bum and Ra-Tim-Bum Castle were an important part of my formation.
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.
I believe kids learn from what you do. Generally we tend to say one thing and do different.
🥰
You will be welcome in Russia, I guess. I saw a lot of videos of Canadians and Americans coming to live here and receiving warm welcome. Though it aint easy here too. But our people could learn how to defend our rights from you
Soviet media are great for that. I was born in Soviet Russia but grew up in Europe. My mother really did a good job of giving me and my brother access to both Soviet and Western Media and I enjoyed both, taking the best from both worlds. But I have to say Soviet media just make the best cartoons for younger children and the best movies. I will watch a Soviet movie over a Western one every single time of I have to choose. They are amazing, particularly the kid and whimsical stuff.
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
One of my favorite films as a child was "Ali Baba and the 40 Robbers," directed by Latif Faiziyev with Umesh Mehra. The other was the "Black Prince Ajuba" by Shashi Kapoor and Gennady Vasilyev.
my favorite was Golden antelope
Да, Золотая антилопа хороший мультфильм, а главное поучительный.
Советский Маугли посмотрите, не пожалеете.
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
Yeah, I always felt a lot of these cartoons had a feeling of a sort of gentle melancholy, for lack of better words. Perhaps even more acute now that the country and a system that made them no longer exists.
It's cause it's utopian, it was never true to life
I felt the same way about British tv. Maybe Mr Rogers. They have a humane element that is lacking in US superhero mainstream trash like GI Joe
The robbers from Brementown Musicians are animated versions of a real actor trio called "The Coward, The Blockhead and The Seasoned", reoccuring meta-characters played by Georgiy Vitzin, Yuri Nikulin and Yevgeniy Morgunov. Soviet cinema, especially movies by Leonid Gaidai, oftentimes featured these kinds of meta-characters, who are not literally the same person between movies, but embody the same archetype and are played by the same actors. The trio was very beloved by soviet moviewatchers, especially Nikulin.
I just showed "Kavkazkaya plennitsa" to my 6 and 9 yo. They loved it! "Bambarbia. Kergudus" 😂😂😂😂
They are basically the three stooges.
as a russian it took me a sec to realise who those "the coward, the blockhead and the seasoned" were. never heard anybody talking aht them in english 🫠
@lisaistryingtolive might have taken some artistic liberties with the translation, I have no idea whether they have an "official" one
@@lisaistryingtolive the translation is pretty good tho, since it's more about the concepts and traits rather than actual characters
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 :)
Bro krecik (Polish translation) is a classic that lil guy is so cool omg
yup
Damn. You didn't allow your kid to watch courage the cowardly dog show, etc? Almost all the best 2D cartoons came from a Russian named Genndy tartakovsky that aired in the USA like samurai Jack etc
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?
Истину говоришь. Да прозреют люди. Капитализм никогда о заботе капитализм это всегда о прибыле
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
I was intrigued by how it handled conflict. What I have come to dislike about American media, even in fiction, is how overemphisized conflict is. People always have to be in conflict and fight. It's refreshing to see people try to work it out and then work together to do it. I remember a good example of this in a cartoon show called Winx Club. It's from Italy originally, and in the first English dub, the circle of girls at the boarding school who were supposedly friends were just always catty to each other to the point you wondered why they even hung out. Later on a different company did a much more faithful dub and the girls acted like normal friends to each other who usually got along well and were able to resolves conflicts in a sensible way. I wondered, why did the first one have to make them all such adversarial people when they were supposed to be friends? It's like without nasty conflict, they think people won't be interested?
These Soviet cartoons certainly paint a world that seems more open to dialogue and reason, where people encourage each other instead of trying to enforce hierarchies. God, even being seen as your own person with your own initiative and rights, even as a child... I would have liked that a child. Being fobbed off even when you were giving your all was very disillusioning, all because they didn't want to have to deal with you. Encouragement was scares when rules had to be followed, procedures followed, I's dotted and T's crossed. Adulthood ain't much different. I gotta find these.
That's so wild about the original Winx dub! I hate how so much American media makes interpersonal conflicts that could be solved by just being nice and having a conversation a major plot point. It's why I don't watch a ton of American media in general, so much of it is literally just people being jerks to each other.
Solving conflict peacefully was reason of existence of certain already russian cartoon. Smeshariki are canonically "a world without violence" propaganda. Everyone from 14 to 27 know them.
Winx Club was extremely popular in Russia. I never thought about it, but maybe what you wrote is one of the reasons why it was so popular. Every girl wanted to have a group of close friends, like the girls in the series had
(Also, it had a good russian dub lol)
I'm Russian, but i don't mind when characters bicker for fun. There's a difference tho.
In American Cartoon, like TMNT 2003, a major plot conflict between characters could rise from some minor disagreement, which is idiotic.
In Japanese cartoons, like One Piece, characters could have constant bickering, not all of them, but it has two guys who are at constant rivalry. But with common goal, they always help each other out. Tho, in most Japanese cartoons characters are friendly to each other like in Soviet ones. One Piece is an Anime about Pirates.
Fun fact: The Bremen Musicians cartoon (both the first and the second film) was having a difficult time getting through the censors. It took a while to actually air the cartoon on television. The censors were saying that the troubadour, his style, his whole vibe was too Western, and not socialist at all, actually.
It had to do with the imagery, not the storyline, though.
Это брехня, как и большая часть рассказов про советскую цензуру. И к тому же нелогичная. Сначала запрещали, а потом разрешили? Цензоров просто уговорили, что ли? Надо же, какая милая советская цензура, если её можно уговорить))
As almost everything in USSR was
Even chebhraska was under fire because people who worked on it was Jewish.
@@Elena_Dа то что в совке запретные темы постоянно менялись тебя не напрягает, бедолага? Даже с фактами цензуры умудряются совки спорить.
@@maybebutwhatever , всё, что в "совке" поменялось -- это ядрёная брехня а-ля ж-л Огонёк в конце 80-х, когда "генеральная линия партии" окончательно повернулась в сторону буржуев. Всё остальное -- влажные фантазии деток антисоветчиков, таких как ты, лапоть. Например, как дурацкий рассказ про "несоциалистический" вид бременских музыкантов))
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!!
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.
Nu pogodi was meant to show the bad vices (wolf was smoking, drinking, stealing), bad choices and violence doesn't pay off.
Compare It to Tom and jerry where it's all about how much each other hurt themselves.
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)
Maybe what you're remembering is an episode of soviet Winnie Pooh? There were like 3 episodes, and one of them told a story of Winnie and Pyatochock (the piglet) trying to give Ia the Donkey birthday presents. The Piglet wanted to give a balloon, but It poped on the way, he still gave It to Ia, told its story holding back tears, but it still made Ia happy because the attention mattered more to him.
Hope this helps
Shared joy is doubled, Shared sorrow is halved. Is the gist of the whole quote.
Eeyore from "Winnie the Pooh" is neither sheep nor goat! He is a donkey. )))
ua-cam.com/video/QN_k2iiT2gg/v-deo.html Козлик и его горе ---- этот мультик?
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! :)
From the bottom of my heart thank you for making these videos, I would be completely lost without these. 😭😭
I’m Ukrainian and a high schooler and struggle with connecting to my culture and roots because there’s not much Slavic community to find in America, much less community that isn’t heavily conservative and educated about history. I started a club to try and make a small community and it feels nice to see channels like this talk about things that directly connect to MY history and MY people, and not America.
Idk I just feel so thankful like girl you have no idea how lost I’d feel trying to set up the meetings without some guidance and wisdom from this channel 😭🙏
Aww thank you, that makes me so happy to hear, I'm glad I can help!! 🫶 And it's awesome that you're connecting with your culture at such a young age!
Bruh, the rant about capitalism making everyone an asshole. Real shit. You could do a whole video on that.
-should
@@chazdomingo475 And then they argue that being an asshole is human nature. No the fuck it isn’t, we just have a system that encourages and rewards being an asshole while punishing empathy and kindness!
The assholes of 2024 are crony capitalists who pretend to be socialists
@davew4939 to be fair, humans are absolutely inherently capable of both kindness AND cruelty. Usually, selfishness and greed are born out of fear of not having enough resources and survivalist instincts, which can turn ugly. Fear can distort and pollute anyone, which is why it is used as a best tactic of control.
@@ksy4747 Insecurity in other words. Insecure short men, for example, are one of the worst. 😀
Справедливости ради - сцена с компрессором не имеет смысл и в рамках СССР: уголовное наказание за воровство все равно было. Компрессор все равно принадлежал какой-то организации. Но т.к. это мультфильм естественно эти моменты опущены и Гену никто не наказал.
А ещё у них трансформаторная будка вообще никак не закрыта. Рядом с детской площадкой.
По поводу того, что Гена с Чебурашкой утащили якорь - это шутка, отсылка к тому, что в реальности пионеры действительно иногда уносили для сдачи на металлолом то, что металлоломом не являлось.
Allow me to translate for the benefit of English speakers
Honestly, the compressor scene doesn't make sense even in the USSR. It still belonged to some organization, so Gena is still criminally liable for theft (as my own aside, he may have gotten away with it IRL with a sufficiently large cash bribe).
The anchor scene is a joke about pioneers sometimes taking for scrap metal, things that definitely were not scrap metal.
Also their electric transformer isn't locked, next to a playground no less. Ayo wtf.
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
@@tyronechillifoot5573 Does ACAB include Fillmore?
@@davew4939yes
Another incredible banger! But picking the transition music from Тайна Третьей Планеты? That's just unfair. Brings tears to my eyes every time. I'm infinitely grateful to my mama for taking care of my childhood education with Союзмультфильм. Eagerly awaiting for part 2!
Птица Говорун отличается умом и сообразительностью, умом и сообразительностью.
Thank you! I'm glad someone noticed the music!! I love Тайна Третьей Планеты so much, I'll definitely be making a video about it in the future! I was originally going to include it in this video but it was getting too long
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
thats so sad that youve had to teach grown adults such a simple thing
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...🌝
@@revolutionaryth0tif there would be part 2 then I would also love a mention of "The Mystery of the 3rd planet"... Which can segway into the Soviet movie "A Guest from the future" featuring the same character - Alisa Selezneva. And use this movie to compare with "the Terminator" a movie produced at about the same time and also featuring glimpses of future and time travel...
@@pavelZhd mystery of the third planet is one of my faves so I love this idea! I was originally going to include it in this video but it was getting too long so I figured I'd discuss it in a later video :)
Yugoslav kid here. As a socialist country opened to the West we were watching Bugs Bunny and Russian Wolf and hare one after another (Zagadyš ti u menya, zaec -sorry, no Russian letters on my keyboard) and I loved them both. I was taught English and Russian in my school. We used to fly with JAT (Yugoslav Air Transport) on school excursions to the isle of Hvar in Croatia. When I think of it today it seems like I was living someone else's life.
@@pavelZhd choice of music for this video literally reminded me of third planet
The bandits from Bremen Musicians taught me that it's ok when a woman has a masculine voice and that dancing well is a redeeming quality for being kind of mean and loud, which resulted into me enjoying drag shows as an adult
Haha same!! I never connected those dots before but I think that must be where my love of drag originated
@@revolutionaryth0t that and Verka Serduchka music videos
Пока пересматривал мартовский стрим Реми Майснера, выплыло видео в рекомендациях, решил глянуть и сразу же случился диссонанс, человек, говорящий без акцента по-английски, без акцента говорит Чебурашка, крокодил Гена, Простоквашино и прочее. Отличное видео, товарищ, продолжайте в том же духе ✊.
Большое спасибо!!
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
Like this video! Also an interesting thing about the "Bremen Town Musicians" to understand the context. The atmosphere and images clearly show the culture of hippies, rock and roll and "the beatles vibe". These were the 60s, the fashion for Western music and self-expression was also among Soviet youth, despite the Iron Curtain. People bought records illegally and classic Soviet rock was largely inspired by, and sometimes plagiarized, Western rock. However, openly listening to foreign tracks was still prohibited, as a manifestation of "bourgeois culture" (interestingly, in America, on the contrary, the popularity of rock and roll was associated with the "hand of Moscow", which encourages young people to give up their careers, money and other Western values). In short, to some extent, the "Bremen Town Musicians" were the only way to do something provocative: children's content in the USSR was always treated more loyally than adult content and there you could experiment.
Um... Town musicians of Bremen is actually a classic tale by the Grimm brothers from the 1800's. But yes, the Soviet cartoon is the 1960's adaptation of the classic story. It had no "western" culture connotation for us (i grew up in USSR) , but rather is about the rebellious nature of youth in general.
By the way, the voice overs ar by some of the best Soviet singers. Amazing voices. The songs are still my karaoke night favorites 😂
Gen X European here. I used to love these creative "communist animations"❤ before Animé came into our lives this was a big chunk of after school entertainment. Such creative work.
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?
Yes!! I was actually originally going to include mystery of the third planet in this video because it's another one of my faves but the script was getting too long so I ended up leaving it out, but I'll definitely be making a video about it and other Soviet science fiction in the future! :)
You should do more videos on soviet movies. I've only scratched the surface with what's avalable by Mosfilm on UA-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
But what about "Ничего себе! Вашу маму и там и тут передают! До чего техника дошла!"? Yes, I demand a follow-up, reviewing Winter in Prostokvashino!
Thanks in advance for the nostalgia trip. They don’t say “It was better” for nothing, these old cartoons are a big cornerstone of my childhood (and probably of a lot of other people’s too).
Edit: just wanted to add that this was a great analysis video, it opened my eyes on some things I haven’t thought about.
Thank you!! Lucky us for having these cartoons define our childhoods :) although I missed living in the USSR by a whole year but I'm so glad I grew up with these cartoons.
@@revolutionaryth0t yeah, I myself was born more than 10 years after USSR, but thankfully, these cartoons didn’t disappear with it. With their preservation, it’s possible to still pass down their values to younger generation, as long as someone is willing to give a push)
@@litjell without socialism, the good things will die
I just read the book from Yurchak "Everything was forever until it was no more", and your video made me as sad as the book, for all the things we lost until the working class take the future in their hands again...
thank you for also taking the time to put a thorough references list in your description. your analysis was incredible. I came across your video because I started a Russian history class but my professor is aggressively anti-communism
Здравствуйте! Нет ничего плохого в коммунизме. Его специально демонизируют в капитализме, чтобы продолжать эксплуатировать рабочий класс. Если вы познакомитесь с трудами Карла Маркса и Ленина, вы, как Нео из матрицы, выпьете красную таблетку. Если только не струсите.
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
@@MrTooEarnestOnline The fact that it was made in the soviet union is hilarious.
I'm Russian, and I'm so impressed with your Russian pronunciation, especially when you say cheburashka.
Soviet cartoons are golden
By the way, speaking as an American who has seen a number of them, these cartoons are kind' a masterpieces in their own right even beyond the uplifting message----
Куда подует ветер - туда и облака.
По руслу протекает послушная река.
Но ты - человек, ты и сильный, и смелый.
Своими руками судьбу свою делай:
Иди против ветра, на месте не стой,
Пойми, не бывает дороги простой!
Где рельсы проложили - там ходят поезда.
Куда пастух погонит - туда пойдут стада.
Но ты - человек, ты и сильный, и смелый.
Своими руками судьбу свою делай:
Иди против ветра, на месте не стой,
Пойми, не бывает дороги простой!
Теперь не доверяют, как прежде, чудесам.
На чудо не надейся, судьбой командуй сам.
Ведь ты - человек, ты и сильный, и смелый.
Своими руками судьбу свою делай:
Иди против ветра, на месте не стой,
Пойми, не бывает дороги простой!
17:45 true, but not exactly that - in USSR people were encouraged to move into cities for sake of industrialization (or sometimes villages were just in the way of a rapidly growing city, like in "Белые Росы" film) and were provided with an apartments (as the state is technically a landlord), so they usually just abandoned their houses entirely with all their stuff they won't need as a city dwellers. So usually those villages only had elderly people left who were not willing to leave the place they've spent their whole life in. The fact that village still has a postman attached to it says it's not completely abandoned yet, but pretty much about to be so, given how much time he spends with the main characters.
Could you make a similar video on "Тайна третьей планеты" or "The Mystery of the Third Planet"?
I will at some point, it's one of my favorites!!
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. 🙂
That's so cool to hear about China! That sounds like a lovely environment to be in :)
I might make a video roasting Harry Potter at some point, we'll see haha
Well, Soviet Union had its own "Tom and Jerry"("Ну, Погоди"), though the Soviet version benefits from not having a racial stereotype (a black servant).
🦊🦝 I would absolutely have left my parents and moved to the country with a cat I just met, as a child. That would have been my favorite film of all time
11:33 I also absolutely love the fact that the 3 male robbers are a reference to Gaidai's infamous 3 characters - Byvalyi, Trus and Balbes.
Yes, that's why they don't seem like creepy villains to be afraid of, but are depicted in a comical style and with a very catchy song.
Love your marxist analysis. As a Russian born person, I've watched these cartoons a ton in the kindergarten and never revisited them again after reading more theory. This video feels like discovering the cartoons for the first time again.
16:30 "Prostokvashino" comes from prostokvasha(простокваша): it's name of the drink, that, in a fact, just a sour milk (if translate drink's name literally, we get "SimpleSour"). I could translate it like "Three from Sourmilk village".
As a Russian teenager, I'm very thankful for sharing that type of culture with others)
Thanks!
Some many ppl seem to live in a "bubble", we all should be a bit more open-minded to surrounding world to see the whole beauty of its.
in Brazil we had our version of the "bremen musicians" called "Os Saltimbancos" in 1977, it was a musical adaptation for children's theater made by Sergio Bardotti and Luis Enríquez Bacalov and adapted 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
and obviously the animal owners represented the military and the upper classes, the bourgeoisie, who supported the regime, in the play they were called 'barons' or 'bosses' by the animals
Oh my, that symbolism is so well suited, it's cool that it's also a critique of the dictatorship. I'll have to look it up
@@teodorasavoiu4664 search: Os Saltimbancos
Wow that sounds super interesting!
For real, I remember to see the interpretation of Os Saltimbancos by a local theatre in my city. Every 2 years they went to our school to perfom this piece to the children. I even remember part of the song until today:
“Nós, gatos, já nascemos pobres, porém, já nascemos livres”
Thanks for the comment, it brings back some good old memories 😊
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.
what a load of crap
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 UA-cam as well @diemaus
I loved Die Sendung mit der Maus so much growing up, though I think my favorite show overall was Wissen macht Ah! were they also explain things. No idea if it's still running, used to be on KiKa after the Sandmännchen
I grew up with that show too when I was around 9 and 10. As you may know, Die Sendung mit der Maus is simply known as Mouse TV when it was first aired on a former Astro channel called Astro TVIQ.
Партия гордится тобой, товарищ!
I was born in the post-Soviet space, and the legacy left by the previous civilization greatly influenced my development. Despite some negative aspects that were picked up and exaggerated by Western propaganda, it was a great country with the goal of creating a new, creative individual, free from the negative traits characteristic of a person raised in the conditions of savage capitalist competition. My grandmother worked as a doctor, and my grandfather was a school teacher, and they were able to build a large house without loans or mortgages, collect an enormous library, and raise four children. Citizens received free healthcare, the best education in the world, and the opportunity to freely develop their human potential. Many people who grew up in that country told me that under socialism they had no fear for tomorrow.
P. S.
I don’t want to restore the Soviet Union, but I do want socialism to emerge on a global scale, so we all live in a society without wealth inequality, without reasons for war, where every person by right of birth has shelter, food, and does not have to rent out their labor to survive. This is what communism means: “From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.”
Socials was tried countless times and it never works on a scale of a country or even city.
@@d4cto Ну, во-первых, насчёт "countless", ты явно неправ, ибо попыток было не так много и все они поддаются анализу, во-вторых, пример того же СССР, который развалился вследствие отступления от социалистического пути развития, подтверждает, что много лет система может функционировать эффективно (сравни относительное состояние экономики СССР до косыгинских реформ и относительное состояние экономики современной капиталистической России), а в-третьих, твой заезженный либеральный тейк уже тысячу раз опровергнут)
Капитализм в Демократической Республике Конго прекрасно же работает, да? Я же тоже могу сказать, что примеры капитализма по всему миру, и особенно в тех странах, где люди по какой-то причине устраивали революции и пробовали социализм или скатывались в фашизм, показывают, что капитализм точно так же не работает и в мировом масштабе является антигуманной системой.
@@rifod все справедливо, ты прав. Возьму на заметку, и спасибо, что не поленился все это написать.
Только Демократическая республика Конго официально не социалистическая, но это besides the point.
Врач и учитель построили большой дом без ипотек. Интересно в какой республике дело было, отчего то кажется что не в РСФСР))
@@Clockworkg1rl Действительно, не в РСФСР. Конечно, дом строился не сразу, а постепенно, в течение двух-трёх лет. Важна тут не конкретная география, а то, что люди имели возможность улучшить свои жилищные условия без влезания в долги. В наши дни средняя семья из учителя и врача на постсоветском пространстве вряд ли имеет такую возможность.
Ну и на всякий случай уточню, что такого явления как "ипотека" в СССР не существовало.
The first part reminded me of something sad. In the 90, when I was growing up, the neighbourhood I lived in had a playground for children, Because of lack of investment it slowly declined. The last time I visited I noticed the playground was transformed into a parking lot. It made me very sad, and retrospective.
It's strange to read this. Now almost every yard has first-class playgrounds. Lots of sports grounds with excellent coverage, free exercise equipment. In the 90s, horror really happened, everything was destroyed, syringes were lying everywhere, I carried my daughters out onto the street in my arms from the entrance, so that they would not grab any muck.
St. Petersburg, Russia -- can confirm that not a summer passes by without another playground or sports ground being installed in our courtyards.
The story with the crocodile is a great introduction for kids into metaphysics versus dialectics.
My mother grew up with these cartoons, and used to play the 'Bremenskii Muzikanty' soundtrack in the car for me on road trips. I still know all the songs. The robbers singing about how the king has lots of money, and they love money, in that particular jolly-sinister way 😊
No me sitting in my Moscow apartment, after living 21 years here, watching other countries explaining me Soviet cartoons. What a world
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
My favourite soviet cartoons were "Snow queen" because the artstyle was so beautiful and magical, and "Hedgehog in the mist" because of creepy but somewhat comforting artstyle. Also I have a very distinctive childhood memory of sitting in my grandma's flat in winter and watching snow queen while eating syrki with tea)))
Ooo! Three years ago, when my granddaughter was four years old, I launched the cartoon "Hedgehog in the Fog" on her TV. Watching my granddaughter watching this cartoon without stopping was incomparable!
Great video! I’m always telling my friends how much better Soviet kids' movies are than American ones like Disney, but they never believe me. I was a little bummed you didn’t mention Незнайка на Луне as you talked about socialism and kids' films. I hope there will be a part two!
Thank you! There will definitely be a part two at some point!!
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.
You will keep personal hygiene either because it feels nice, or you will be scared shitless by washstand to do so.😅😂😊
Imagine trying to sleep and suddenly hearing "did your wash your a** today?" from your washstand...
Омг!!! Я так рад, что больше людей узнают о советской анимации. Я считай вырос на них, и честно, там очень много прекрасных мультфильмов и авторов, их создавших.
As a Russian myself, that grew up on these cartoons I can agree that the social values that these cartoons are wanting to teach us really affected my individual
This has gotta be one of my favourite youtube essays ever. Largely because you don't butcher all the names but pronounce them perfectly, but also because the analysis is very good and I really like how you're showing the english-speaking community those themes that are so important to us russian speakers.
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.
It was a book by Eduard Uspensky, "The Crocodile Gena goes to the army." Here is a short excerpt from this children's book:
One day, crocodile Gena received a letter with a summons: "It is suggested that you come to the military enlistment office at eight o'clock in the morning with a mug, a spoon and a two-day supply of food. You are being drafted into the ranks of the active army. Congratulations. Commissioner Vintovkin (Rifle)". Gena agreed that Cheburashka would water his flowers and feed the fish on the window, took a mug and a spoon and together with Cheburashka went to the recruiting station. The commissioner looked at Gena and said:
- Oh! You look kind of green and flat. And somehow you look subtly like a crocodile.
- I am a crocodile.
"Nothing,- the commissioner reassured him. - Don't despair. We have people worse than you.
Gena was just a wonderful young fighter. He threw a grenade half a kilometer away. In hand-to-hand combat, he put five opponents on the ground with his tail at once. He boldly jumped from a parachute and perfectly disguised himself.
"We would like a hundred thousand such fighters," said Colonel Sivolotsky, a famous paratrooper. - Then we are not afraid of any enemy!
When the young fighters solemnly took the military oath, their parents came to everyone, and Cheburashka came to the crocodile Gena.
"You've raised a good fighter," Colonel Sivolotsky told Cheburashka. Although it was the opposite. After all, it was the crocodile Gena who raised a good Cheburashka.
Wow, I'm russian and I must admire how correctly you pronounse russian names and other words. Thank's for that kind video, I'm glad that I found it.
I absolutely love The Brementown Musicians, It's my favorite cartoon of all time!
The irony being that the generation who grew up with these cartoons did not grow up to embody those values.
So your arguments if some idiots didn't understand that message then it's a cartoon failed, maybe that's their parents failed?
Блестящие видео! Как же приятно что кто-то разобрал эти шедевры!
Большое спасибо!
I love these so much, the lessons they show are really good and the portrayal on getting to it is lovely
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.
The book about Prostokvashino/ Fedja Setä was a huugeee part of my childhood. Hearing the story is one of my fondest memories of my childhood ✨
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 want to at some point!!
Your Russian pronounciation is soo good! Telling you this as a native Russian speaker😁
Thank you! It's my first language 😂 but I didn't speak it for 20 years so I'm glad my skills are improving
About Бременские музыканты I personally think it was overcomplication, and main story was about friendship and crazy, stupid things we can do in the name of love
Omg I love you breakdown of these cartoons, even though I watched them a bunch of times in my childhood, I never really thought about their meaning.
Спасибо, товарищ Thot 😂😂😂😂😂
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
This is an excellent video !! Thank you so much for your work :)
Thank you!!
"If you're not impressed, you're probably an anti-communist." 🤣💀
This is awesome.
Also thank you for appearing on my dash, as a fellow slav who was mostly raised in US, finding a video essayist my age with a similar background and political inclination brings me a lot of joy
19:05 This is part of the reason that I think it's insane that the US allows religious-based private education. Parents should not be allowed to have that kind of control over the child's education. Even if it's not spoken, the sentiment is that the child is property of the parent until adulthood.
When public education is a failure, parents would rightfully look elsewhere. The sad part is that "elsewhere" usually, 99% of the time, means a religious private school.
I consider myself lucky to have been in a non-religious semi-private school precisely because of both the failure of public education and the scary alternative
i want to mention how it's so nice to hear music from "The secret of the third planet" while you are talking :)
Really great video and generally great work.
I really like the idea of analysing soviet cartoons to understand what the values and Ideas of the soviet were and what they, them self, wanted to teach there children. I am really facinated by this Idea. Especialy because i, as a Educater (Pädagoge in german), want to, one day, write a book, covering the pedagogy of the soviet Union from its start to its end. And videos like yours really show me that this is a work i have to get behind and make it real.
Спасибо вам, милая девушка, что рассказываете о наших мультфильмах❤ Советская мультипликация была и остаётся самой гуманистической в мире. Особенно щемящее чувство в сердце вызывала Сказка сказок Юрия Норштейна, всегда плакала.
Oh guys, glad you're watching Soviet cartoons. They are good, but there are certain aspects of them that are designed for people who lived in that time and in that society.
I'm not talking about some deep meaning, it's mostly jokes and pointing out some problems and shortcomings. I was born in 86, but many things were explained to me by my parents, first of all I was a child, and secondly in the 90s there was no point in criticizing the Soviet Union, it didn't exist.
Let's start from the beginning.
Samuel Marshak's Cheburashka is a criticism of the Soviet system. It is still a children's fairy tale, designed to be read to children. But a huge number of jokes, designed for adults. For example, that crocodile Gena works in the zoo as a crocodile. Or that when they build a house, they can't do anything completely. Either they will bring them half of the bricks they need, or they will bring all the bricks but halfway down the road, or they will bring where they need, the right number of bricks, but it will not be whole bricks, but halves.
In Prostokvashino there is a joke about the painting “And this painting has what task?; This painting has a very important task! It covers a hole in the wall!” - it's about the quality of Soviet mass housing. Or how the letter carrier Pechkin comes to Uncle Fedor every day with a parcel, because he is obliged to come according to the rules, but since he has no identity documents, he does not give the parcel to him.
Another point is that all works in the Soviet Union were heavily censored. They had to conform to the “high socialist values of the builder of communism”.
So even if I were asked to describe the values of the people who made them, I would do so with caution. Of course, any work bears the imprint of the culture of the people in which the creator lives. But what these same works criticized the Soviet system for was the gap between the declared and the real.
Approximately the same thing is happening in Russia now. For example, Putin talks a lot about “traditional values”, the importance of marriage and the role of the family, as well as the rejection of “Western values”, especially scaring people about gays and same-sex families. But if you look at the numbers, Russia has a large number of divorces after marriage, and a lot of children from the 80's until now are growing up in same-sex families with mom and grandma as parents.
My point is that there is a lot of nuance in judging a society's culture and values by works. Some things will be more noticeable on the outside of society, but some things can only be understood by knowing well how things work on the inside.
Thank you! Wanted to write the same thing, but finally stumbled upon your comment
You've been probably born too late to get a grip of the Soviet culture. It was perfectly normal to criticize the problems in USSR, practically every comedy and stand-up comedian did it. The favorite targets were bureaucrats - i.e. those who make a career simply by following written rules and laws instead of genuinely wanting to improve the society.
And have you ever read the books that was published in USSR in 1960s? Like Bulgakov's "Heart of the Dog" and Erdman's piece I can't name here due to the risk of triggering YT's automated free speech enforcement.
can't agree with all of ur points but it would be nice to hear them in the video cuz it was rly one sided.
sorry but not everyone has to think the ussr was hell on earth either 😭 there is plenty of tht perspective everywhere else on youtube
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Very wholesome. I do appreciate the dark humor of western cartoons sometimes though. Was there any Soviet equivalent of the Looney Toons?
There is a cartoon about a rabbit being a trouble-maker, "Ну, Погоди!" and it can be seen similair to some part of looney toones, but something as big as the looney toons in it's universe and character variety - I don't think so. Although it is still a good cartoon on itself!!
(I'm sorry for any mistakes, I'm still learning english language and mostly used translator for words)
Like the person who replied to you said, Ну, Погоди!/Nu Pogodi! is probably the closest. It's definitely got a similar slapstick humor to it.
In my experience, in the US people will turn to the police for help, while in Russia people try to avoid involving the police.
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.
You can watch all of these with English subtitles on YT!! The auto translate from Russian to English is decent enough. And yeah, so much American animation is just "lol isn't violence hilarious?"
That's very interesting about Chinese animation!
Most modern Chinese animationfor kids is pretty bad, so I doubt Chinese parents are showing them to their kids, but I wouldn't know. I grew up watching the old cartoons from the Golden and Silver Ages of Chinese animation, stuff like Havoc in Heaven. Most Chinese kids probably watch similar stuff to what my generation grew up watching (if they even have time to watch cartoons) and they also probably watch a lot of Japanese animation.
@@weirdofromhalo @revolutionaryth0t All I know is, Netflix has some good Chinese animated shows. No Doubt In Us, God Troubles Me, Scissor Seven, The Daily Life of the Immortal King and Qi Refining for 3000 Years... and previously they had Legend of Exorcism and Heaven Official's Blessing but Netflix removed those 2 for some reason. But they currently have 6 Chinese animated shows, along with the 2 they removed. And also the Nezha Chinese animated movies. All of it is really good stuff!
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
god I love this channel
same
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This is so lovely. I wish i had grown up with these cartoons instead of tom and jerry and the simpsons.
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Thank you for all your hard work!
Btw
theres a soviet Tom and Jerry exist
It's quite different but still a slapstick animation comedy and It's called Well, Just You wait! 1696 or Nu pogodi/Ну, погоди!
I love how informed and thoughtful you were. My dad put these USSR animations on for us & I loved them. Still watch to this day because they're wholesome and have good morals. But the way u laid it out explains on a deeper level why I love them.❤😊 Also ur Russian is pretty good but some words seem off, is it ur 1st language?