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Is This Cuddly, Big-Eared Rascal Leading Russia to Ruin?  The New York Times

'Looks like a toy, but it's real': BBC examines a downed Russian drone  BBC

This trippy anti-capitalist cartoon was the USSR’s first animated film  Gizmodo

Watch Winsor McCay’s The Sinking of the Lusitania, the First Major Animated Propaganda Film (1918)  Open Culture

Shrek under fire: Russian lawmakers say Western cartoons ‘indoctrinating’ kids  South China Morning Post

50 years of Cheburashka: why the Soviet Union’s best-loved cartoon character is still winning hearts after half a century  New East Digital Archive

Films By Jove Launches Animated Soviet Propaganda Series  Animation World Network

How Cheburashka, the “Soviet Mickey Mouse,” Achieved International Fame  Artsy

The Incredibly Bizarre World Of Animated Soviet Propaganda Films  Gizmodo

New DVDs (Published 2007)  The New York Times

Eight Free Films by Dziga Vertov, Creator of Soviet Avant-Garde Documentaries  Open Culture

Watch the Surrealist Glass Harmonica, the Only Animated Film Ever Banned by Soviet Censors (1968)  Open Culture

The Beautiful, Innovative & Sometimes Dark World of Animated Soviet Propaganda (1925-1984)  Open Culture

Behold Soviet Animations of Ray Bradbury Stories  Open Culture

Watch Dziga Vertov’s A Man with a Movie Camera : The 8th Best Film Ever Made  Open Culture

Watch The Idea , the First Animated Film to Deal with Big, Philosophical Ideas (1932)  Open Culture

Enjoy 15+ Hours of the Weird and Wonderful World of Post Soviet Russian Animation  Open Culture

Hear Dziga Vertov's Revolutionary Experiments in Sound: From His Radio Broadcasts to His First Sound Film  Open Culture

Classic Soviet cartoon Cheburashka to be made into a feature film  New East Digital Archive

Soviet Artists Envision a Communist Utopia in Outer Space  Open Culture

Watch Fantasmagorie , the World’s First Animated Cartoon (1908)  Open Culture

Toys Theater — Russian Performers Who Are Deaf  abilitymagazine.com

9 Unique Designs Born in the USSR  Mental Floss

Opinion | Soviet Toys of Death (Published 1985)  The New York Times

Why I love my Soviet Labubu  The Verge

Barbiemania hits Russia, but the doll has a complicated legacy there  Semafor

The Beautiful Anarchy of the Earliest Animated Cartoons: Explore an Archive with 200+ Early Animations  Open Culture

‘Toys in the Attic’ to Open in New York  Animation Magazine