Just wanted to inform you that there are tons and tons of great soviet cartoons on the internet, a lot of them with English subtitles. They're all bizarre and artistic and great materials to make memes out of. The beefball cat already has been a meme. He's from a soviet cartoon called "a kitten named Woof," which is brilliant.
My mom grew up in Spain and lived some years under Franco but they did have TV from Eastern Europe and she remembers seeing Polish cartoons which she describes as surreal and absurd. I also recently found out Pat & Mat was Czechoslovak. And yeah there's a trove of socialist animation we don't even know about, sad when you think about it.
Joshua Harris
I vaguely remember seeing this youtu.be/bbcmqDBbzMw as a kid for some reason. No idea how or why.
Benjamin Nelson
This was my childhood TBH. Mowgli, 38 Parrots, Carlson on the Roof, etc.
lol holy shit. there's even a "no hope, just rope" scene where the character tries to neck himself in his living room because he is so alienated from his labor
I'm really sorry but Mr. Freeman is better, the Soviet cartoon with the Wolf was a bit fun too and there was a movie with an owl and a hedgehog I liked a lot as a kid, can't find it.
Carter Ortiz
through our new soviet memes we will bring the workers' revolution!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Cat City. Considered by many to be the best of socialist-era Hungarian animation. According to IMDb, it is the 11th best animated movie as of April, 2017. The film opens with a Star Wars style text scroll:
The film is a parody of several famous feature films, mainly the James Bond series. The main plot is about a special spy who is sent to the city of "Pokyo" to get the secret plan of a machine which could save the mouse civilization. Of course, the cats don't want this to happen, and send some rat gangsters to stop him, who don't always prove as efficient as their presentation showed. The movie enjoyed a cult status in many former socialist countries.
Not really, but it was still important. Miyazaki was about to abandon animaton because he wasn't satisfied with it. Then he saw this movie. We gotta thank this movie for Porco Rosso, Nausicaa and all other Miyazaki movies.
Jose Peterson
Here are some cartoons form soviet satirical show "Fitil"
Soviet animation is a great way to radicalize man children and neckbeard boards like /tg/ and /co/, whose member greatly praise them and how art was incentivized in the USSR since most of them are sick and tired of the bullshit that monolithic corporations constantly do to their hobbies.
Luis Martinez
Praise be to Soyuzmultfilm for showing us proper praxis towards snek.
oh man I remember watching this movie over and over again as kid, it was fucking amazing. Watching it as an adult is even better though, there are a bunch of jokes I could have never understood as kid. I fucking love this movie, it definitely deserves more credit.
I heard that this movie was highly acclaimed, translated and broadcast in Iran for its "correct" representation of imperialist politics, lol.
Liam Murphy
haha, this reminds of an old Army joke in the USSR about how if an officer wanted to be tough he would force his soldiers to repeat orders in Hungarian. I can't remember the way it was written out though, sorry.
Samuel Jones
I own a copy of that on Disc that were made in the 90s.
Ryder Rivera
If you have the English dubbed version, plz upload it to some site and share it!
Anthony Reed
There's an old Soviet cartoon I used to watch as a kid, about a mule who carries water from a hill. If anyone has a link please hook me up.
Kevin Gray
Sorry its only in Russian. Also copyrighted. so insta-delet
We had a discussion about that movie four years ago. An important question was raised: Another question: In the English version there was an absolutely horrendous ear-rape song ("Pussy Talk"). Is the original song also like that?
Adrian Reed
Who sang that?! There definitely wasn't anything I could call ear-rape that I remember, let alone something names in such a vulgar fashion, soviet censorship would never have allowed it.
Xavier Robinson
Just checked, it doesn't say anything like that in the original.
i see someone posted polygon up a ways. i love that particular animator. anyways im looking for one we watched in class that described 4 hour automated work days and people having personal jet packs and dancing in the sky but haven't found it since
Parker Lee
It's been a while. It was a female cat in I think a bar or casino. And the song's name is repeated in singing and also displayed in the end credits. Pussy happens to be another word for cat, so the meaning flew over kids' heads.
That's not surprising. Am I the only one here who saw the English dub?
Joseph Ross
I know but its still obvious to an adult what the allusion is.
If you want to understand the utter cultural degeneration the regime change wrought compare the above linked masterpiece made under socialism with its follow up made under capitalism: youtube.com/watch?v=RhdovVq72bQ This abortion of a movie holds 2,2/10 on IMDB and held the top position for a while on the "100 worst movies ever made" list on the site. It received extremely negative criticism from its Hungarian audience, which was mainly disappointed by the film's failure to capture the style and spirit of the original 1981 film. Made in 2008 it uses completely outdated CGI, ridden with plot holes, stupid characters, gratuitous rapping, etc. The movie makers were involved in a corruption scandal as well: where did the millions go that were invested into this shit? It's budget is like 10x more of the above linked original.
youtube.com/watch?v=VpLbWjeZqoc this is the original, I fucking love it but that might be because of the nostalgia overdose that it gives me.
Owen Perry
Do you know the name of that slavic cartoon with a cat in a yellow/blue spacesuit, flying around?
Jack Moore
Holy fuck just watched this, I wish I knew about this sooner, thanks comrade
Austin Lopez
Jan Švankmajer has to be in the list of the top 20 artists 20th century communist countries produced. Et Cetera: youtube.com/watch?v=R1E_GEBmi7o Dimensions of dialogue: youtube.com/watch?v=L-gGpWpra-g (the third act of this is the funniest thing ever)
Initially it seems really un-nuanced (albeit well animated) but after the premise is established, animating capitalist life as this absurd arbitrary dance around things that can suddenly kill/ruin you, the metaphor becomes sort of striking.
Where exactly did the meme of Eastern Bloc animation being this terrible come from? I see this shit from time to time, is it just like the food meme? From what I've seen, it was on par or better than what was made in the west.
Eli Ross
ngl I want to fuck that female rat though
Julian Scott
everything socialist bad
Wyatt Young
>>>/leftyb/3304
It's a dumb joke about everything socialist being bad. the art style used in the show is also clearly referring to abstract realism that was used in the USSR often.
John Jones
that's because the left hasn't done anything worth a damn. we have to go back to the past in order to find nice gems
Luis Moore
In general, it was just too avant-garde for western audiences hence all the "Worker and Parasite" type jokes about it.
if you actually fucking knew anything and weren't a revisionist tankie you would know that disney inspired japanese artists and they even pay tribute to them in Little Witch Academia
Notice how you guys are salivating over little stick figures and fucking rotoscoped uncanny valley HORSESHIT
look how fucking desperate and insecure you niggers are.. there has literally been a million times more art created by markets than any other means
you guys are literally boomer tier
Easton Carter
BAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHA
if you actually fucking knew anything and weren't a revisionist tankie you would know that disney inspired japanese artists and they even pay tribute to them in Little Witch Academia