It’s not surprising that the first animation to come out the newly formed Soviet Union was anti-capitalist propaganda, but 1924’s Soviet Toys has particularly unnerving imagery, which includes ...

On the way to the USSR, he encounters “gremlins from the Kremlin” who wrack his airplane and ruin his wicked plan. This is not Hitler’s worst nightmare, but a plot of a cartoon produced in ...

We start, however, with a “normal” children’s cartoon… that turns out to be nothing less than a psychological thriller. Co-production between Japan and Soviet Union. Directed by G.