Posts from Soviet cartoons.

"Well, Just You Wait!" was a show I really loved back in the day. "Tom and Jerry," you know, pales in comparison. The Wolf always amused me. He was a funny guy overall. It's a shame he always had bad luck. However, that's the principle of children's cartoons.

here's the link in case someone hasn't seen it :)

Our cartoon, "Hedgehog in the Fog," was recognized as the best in the world, and that says it all.

"Hedgehog in the Fog."
Our liberal intelligentsia's favorite cartoon. Plot: a hedgehog (a symbol of Russian liberalism) in a state of alcohol-narcotic intoxication, clearly suffering from "Korsakov's syndrome," stumbles through the forest to his friend the bear's dacha. And although the bear is depicted with the correct, kind features of an ordinary Russian person, the hedgehog's walk, carrying some "juniper branches" as a gift to a Russian, raises many questions. Doctors treating chronic alcoholics are well aware of one of the central hallucinatory images of "delirium tremens" – the image of a white horse, appearing in the twilight state of the patient at the peak of alcohol intoxication. Strangely enough, this image is central in the cartoon, as is the image of a mysterious "someone" who helps the hero not to drown in the dark water of the night forest. And the hedgehog's behavior, flinching in fear from every tree and leaf, is painfully reminiscent of the post-alcoholic fears of chronic alcoholics. One wonders, what is the story of this "children's tale" about, and what lifestyle do they promote, other than the alcohol-narcotic haze of our prickly intelligentsia?
Let's not ask.

a spineless, liberal intelligentsia. But! The film describes not their post-alcoholic fears and hallucinations caused by the disease known as Delirium tremens. I deliberately give the name in the transcription of the early last century, because, in my opinion, this is the time of the film's action. And the Hedgehog's wanderings in the fog are the wanderings of a frightened intellectual against the backdrop of epoch-making events unfolding in Russia. Your brilliant countryman Sholokhov called such wanderings "shit in the hole" on another occasion.

by the way, the Horse in this context is by no means the white horse born of the disease of a drunkard (although this is also present, I agree), but the Pale Horse. You rightly noted – "The bear is depicted with the correct, kind features of an ordinary Russian person" – yes! And what does the Hedgehog bring to this kind Russian? (by the way, you are mistaken here – the bear prepared the juniper branches himself to fuel the world fire). A tiny jar of jam, so insignificant that even the hedgehog himself can barely have a bite! By the way, the jam in the film was never opened. And the mysterious Someone? This is a typical lack of will of an intellectual: the cart will carry! The main thing is not to be killed (yet).

In conclusion, I am not going to accuse the creators and distributors of these cartoons of inciting hatred and extremism, but after seeing these films once, you understand how delicately all these puppets are manipulated in front of our children.

As a brief conclusion, I say that I am far from accusing the creators and distributors of these cartoons of inciting hatred and extremism, but it is enough to see these films once to understand how delicately all these puppets are manipulated in front of our children.