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This is fascinating collection of animated short films from the former USSR. Broadly describable as propaganda, the films span three periods. The first is from 1917 to 1941 representing attempts to mobilise people to build the new socialist society. The second period spans the war and its aftermath - and the films are aimed at boosting morale and encouraging people to fight the German invaders. The third period covers the post-War era until 1989 when the object was to convince Soviet citizens of the superiority of their system over that of the West - and of the threat they faced from USA and its allies.
The films are reproduced on four discs. The first titled "American Imperialists" tries to show the malevolence of the capitalist enemy. "Mr Twister" is a tale of an American industrialist who takes a vacation with his family in the USSR. He refuses to stay in the hotel he has booked because on arrival he realises that there are non-White guests with who he must share the hotel. His Soviet hosts however in the end compel him to accept the company of the guests after a series of pranks and misadventures they engineer and subject the Americans to. The American bigots, in the end, are shown a better alternative in "socialist humanism". Highlighting racial prejudice of the enemy was a common theme of Soviet propaganda - in contrast to the supposed welcome offered by the USSR to all. It is perhaps ironic that the Americans in the end elected a black President (twice) and it is Russia that has acquired a reputation for unfriendliness to dark skinned foreigners.
However, propaganda in the end to work must combine some fact with message - to try to sell the ideology being promoted.Read more ›
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Cartoons were just one weapon in the USSR's ideological arsenal of propaganda. Divided by topic, these cartoons were meant to extol the benefits of communism while belittling the non-communists and doing what good propaganda does: objectifying them and making it OK to want to hate and kill Americans and other "fascists." The style was definitely different, although in some later cartoons it seems as if you can see elements of Yellow Submarine.
The best part of the disc set is the short "documentaries" which are on each disc and which cartoonists and others from the Soviet era explain how propaganda was regulated by the Party, as well as the background on some of these films and what life was like in the USSR. A great history lesson!
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