Black & White

Soviet animation. 1933. Dir. I. Ivanov-Vano.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• soviet
• propaganda
• animation
• surrealism

[Zellig]

Funny that the soviets embraced racial and gender equality before capitalist democracies.

[LoveUsagi]

I love the power of this animation, and the way it makes you feel things that you find painful but neccessery. Doesn't matter whose worse, Stalin or the KKK, the messege of this toon speaks for itself.

[AzzyBlaster]

Who is singing??

[Trillios]

@GermanConquistador08 haha damn true

[GermanConquistador08]

In the Soviet Union everyone was equal, but some were more equal than others.

[Zellig]

@EuropeanAnimation No the fact that they let women fight in WII and go to school and become scientists was testimony enough.

[EuropeanAnimation]

@Zellig The fact that they made films about it doesn't mean that the soviet union was that just in real life.

[Zellig]

@yohannbiimu P.S. the definition of propoganda is generally something along the lines of: "information, ideas, or rumors deliberately spread widely to help or harm a person, group, movement, institution, nation, etc." A definition by which you admit that all of your own statements here are also porpoganda since they are "information or ideas" intended to discredit/oppose communism/socialism/etc. ; D The more you know.

[Zellig]

@yohannbiimu If you really thought I was beyond hope you wouldn't continue coming back here trying to spin what I said and 'show me the light' XD

[yohannbiimu]

@Zellig You are beyond hope, because your entire argument is based upon the ASSUMPTION that this cartoon is "liberty oriented." That is an incredibly stupid notion. This is clearly propaganda, and you refuse to accept that fact. Seriously, you could take the entirety of the material in this and apply it to the gulag state under Stalin, complete with the whips and misery. Applying it elsewhere is nothing but projection. The same happens in N. Korea, where they they proclaim it to be paradise.

[Zellig]

@yohannbiimu What's the difference between the statement: "According to your logic, no one living in a nation that engages in oppressive/totalitarian behavior can make art denouncing bad things that happen in other nations" and the statment: "no one has the right to say anything". Is that a serious question? Read it again, because that's what you told me. If you can't discern the differents between two statements with completely different words and predicates, you are beyond my help. Sorry. ^^

[yohannbiimu]

@Zellig You said "According to your logic, no one living in a nation that engages in oppressive/totalitarian behavior can make art denouncing bad things that happen in other nations" What's the difference? Arguing with morons like you offers absolutely nothing to me, and it's tossing pearls to a swine. Your stupidity is amazing.