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