The racist imagery in Atomic Heart comes from the cartoon Nu, Pogodi! (Well, Just You Wait!). It’s a Soviet riff on Tom and Jerry, with the central premise being the Wolf chasing the Hare, and all 22 ...
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty: Russian Writer Kurlyandsky Dies, Creator Of Popular Soviet Cartoon 'Well, Just You Wait!'
Russian Writer Kurlyandsky Dies, Creator Of Popular Soviet Cartoon 'Well, Just You Wait!'
Legendary Soviet children's writer and creator of the USSR's most popular cartoon characters Eduard Uspensky died in his home in the Moscow suburbs at the age of 80 late on Tuesday. Uspensky was most ...
With the fall of the eastern communist bloc, cartoons vanished from Cuban TV for more than two decades, quirky Soviet-era cartoons are fueling a wave of nostalgia for middle-aged Cubans. With the fall ...
In Cuba, those born in the 60s, 70s and 80s grew up watching Soviet cartoons, which often had relevance to everyday lives in the Caribbean. They replaced popular cartoons featuring characters such as ...
The 1986 Chernobyl disaster, the worst nuclear power disaster in history, contributed to Soviet socio-economic crises. In 1989, most Warsaw Pact countries overthrew their Soviet-backed regimes, ending the Eastern Bloc. Nationalist movements across the Soviet republics declared sovereignty.
Soviet Union (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics; U.S.S.R.), former northern Eurasian empire (1917/22–1991) stretching from the Baltic and Black seas to the Pacific Ocean and, in its final years, consisting of 15 Soviet Socialist Republics.
In response to NATO, the Soviet Union in 1955 consolidated power among Eastern bloc countries under a rival alliance called the Warsaw Pact, setting off the Cold War.