Boris Akulinichev

Soviet propaganda cartoon depicting the evils of American capitalism. A worker who owns a small share in a big company is living large, until his company replaces its workers with robots and its small shares become worthless. The shareholder finds himself alone in a cruel world.

The Tortoise composed a song and the Lion cub learnt it by heart and they sang it together.

Plus Electrification, 1972, directed by Ivan Aksenchuk. Soyuzmultfilm. Executed with Disney-like animation by one of Soyuzmultfilm's leading directors of films for children. "Plus Electrification" triumphs the USSR's drive to bring electricity to every town and village. It was a tenet of Vladimir Lenin that electrification plus Soviet power [vlast] would lead to Communism. Electricity is shown dramatically uniting the economies of USSR and the Eastern bloc countries through production of consumer goods like Czech crystal and Hungarian buses.

The revived punctuation marks stand guard over fair play.

The eternal tragic conflict of a genius and a tyrant in power. The heroes of the film are the inventor of the aircraft and the Chinese emperor, who ordered his execution. The emperor was afraid of the possibility of using the aircraft for military purposes and ordered the courtiers to keep this secret.

The parable of a wasted life is a new interpretation of an old fairy tale.

A bear cub on the road