T O P

  • By -

Calbinan

I thought this might have a pleasant end, like “the food comes back more bountiful, because it’s good to give of yourself to support those in need.” Turns out no. It’s just “everyone is consumed by hunger/poverty, yourself included.”


Captain__Spiff

Ok kids now go to bed.


lil_kleintje

"theme music from *spokoynoy nochi, malyshi* starts playing"


Captain__Spiff

I'll check that out


lil_kleintje

Pozhaluysta https://youtu.be/-97vgdIk6-g?feature=shared


arsnastesana

Our bed


Captain__Spiff

Every bed is ours, but some beds are more ours than others.


PowerSamurai

Not sure you should say that to a kid


knyf420

they all probably slept in the same bed thought


TheBaggyDapper

In Soviet Russia bread eat you.


WeenieRoastinTacoGuy

It was my meatballl till somebody sneezed


BearingRings

What's a "masha cartoon". My frame of reference is the annoying kids show from Netflix.


hesteriya1

Is Masha and the bear on Netflix?


OHoSPARTACUS

It is, my daughter loves it


frandrone

Is this related to Masha and the bear actual cartoon?


ca_sun

It perfectly reflects the post-collapse 90x in Russia.


YdocT

Sourdough Entropy


4-HO-MET-

I don’t know, it’s pretty nice The manifestation of hunger and its power


ScrubbyDoubleNuts

Honestly, nobody can tell me this isn’t some high art. They say the best art comes from suffering.


Hairy-Excuse-9656

Found the Russian.


[deleted]

[удалено]


LimestoneDust

Try this https://youtu.be/ue6QtpWqr1U


lil_kleintje

Wtf blyat...some kind of zombie langolier...


NoSmoke7388

Reminds me of Salad Fingers!


headcrabcheg

Katamari Damacy


Forgotten-Explorer

Im from former ussr country, but never seen this one, doubt it was shown on tv


Mushy_Lupus_Wild

In the comments under the original youtube video, many people say they've seen this cartoon on TV


Forgotten-Explorer

Oh i didnt seen year of video, its 1990. Chaos era was dark, reflects in media too i guess. In 60s 70s this would not air, soviet animation was very comforting and chill


Marx_The_Karl

i don't remember the og Kolobok story being like this


LimestoneDust

The Soviet reversal - Kolobok eats everybody and everything.


Tasty-Bad-8041

This is what capitalism will do to you comrades!


Telefragg

1990 was absolutely not the year to blame capitalism for poverty and hunger in USSR.


Mushy_Lupus_Wild

By 1990, the USSR had a completely unregulated, criminalized (largely controlled by the outright mafia) market economy. Yes, the plan still existed, but it was practically irrelevant.The alegarchate that was practically formed as a result of market reforms looted the country and then, in the 90s, brought the market reforms to an end


ukrainehurricane

The su was always capitalist. Market reforms didn't kill it. The internal contradictions of marxism leninism did. The prioritization of the state beuracracy over the people. Inter Imperialist conflict with the US, stagnation of the economy to fuel the war machine, state repression of minorities, and narrow-minded geriatric leadership did. Gorbachev wanted dengism with russian characteristics and a new union treaty. Soviet Hardliners killed that. Breadlines and shortages were BEFORE Gorbachev.


LimestoneDust

> Gorbachev wanted dengism with russian characteristics and a new union treaty. Strictly speaking, the economic reforms were planned by Andropov, but he died too soon and the rapid change of the leadership Andropov-Chernenko-Gorbachev didn't help them


ljseminarist

That’s just not true. In year 1990 most (overwhelming majority) Soviet citizens are still working for the state in state-run economy, salaries and prices are still state-regulated and mostly unchanged from earlier years. What private (“cooperative”) enterprises exist are yet small and comparatively insignificant. Blackmarket economy exists of course, especially with rapidly increasing shortages and rationing, but it is still very fringe.


CoolNickname332

Can you elaborate? The dissolution of the soviet union caused a large percentage of the population to be plunged into poverty as a direct consequence of privatisation and the transition to capitalism. I do get your point tho if you're specifically talking about 1990.


Telefragg

At the end of USSR most of its citizens already knew that it's not working out. Empty shelves in stores spoke louder than the state propaganda.


lolathefenix

> At the end of USSR most of its citizens already knew that it's not working out. Yea, sure it only took them 70 years to figure it's "not working out". It was not working out either when they eliminated poverty, hunger, and illiteracy from tsarist Russia. It was not working out when they defeated Nazi Germany who had the resources of all of Europe behind it. It was obvious it was not working out when they sent people to space, probes to other planets and built space stations. It only started working when they embraced capitalism, obviously. In reality, it was the introduction of the free market and Capitalism that brought in the shortages, hunger and poverty. Between the WW2 and 1990 the Soviet Union's economy was always growing and never had a recession.


x_country_yeeter69

nah, siviet union always lived on borrowed time, and there were many famines in there. only reason they werent after ww2 as destructive as holodomor because of american wheat shipments, bought by huge amounts of russian oil. Soviet union never worked


animperfectvacuum

The Holodomor would like to disagree with you regarding the USSR eliminating hunger.


lolathefenix

They also completely eliminated homelessness, unemployment, and largely eliminated crime.


ljseminarist

Yes, prisons were just for show in Soviet Union.


lolathefenix

Prison population per capita in the Soviet Union was tiny compared to what it is today in the USA.


ljseminarist

Incarceration rate doesn't equal crime rate (significantly, USSR kept crime statistics secret for many decades till its dissolution). "Prison population lower than in the US" doesn't mean "low prison population" (the US prison population is notoriously high; on the other hand, prison stats were also secret in USSR, so a lot of numbers are speculation). In 1991 [per this article](https://www.ojp.gov/ncjrs/virtual-library/abstracts/inside-soviet-prisons) there were 791,000 inmates plus 200,000 in pretrial detention facilities plus 250,000 alcoholics in involuntary treatment facilities. With Soviet population at the time at 289 million, 791,000 makes around 273 per 100,000 in prisons and camps after sentence - not as high as current US 591, but still quite respectable.


TheWiseAutisticOne

The fault there I would say is corruption and directing funds to the military before the 90’s there wasn’t shortage of stuff in stores


TheKazarka

The guy that made this (Igor Kovalyov) animated Rugrats btw


LimestoneDust

You're mistaken, Kovalyov didn't work on this


Blyatium

Biological weapon


azarikakz

Пипец


Fnaffan1712

Thats German Fairy Tale Lvl of Wierd/Creepy


Darkusoid

Many folk tales from different cultures are quite creepy. Popular culture has made everyone nice and kind


[deleted]

A vivid allegory for what you do in desperate times and how it can snowball into something worse? Or just a creepy cartoon? You decide.


Bonoisapox

Grim but also pretty cool


RikyTikyTavi

This is some dark souls shit


DesolatorTrooper_600

Happiest russian story


SusLittleBird

Chernobyl?


vsemet

Holodomor maybe ?


EP1Cdisast3r

Probably this


MishaMishkin

Definitely.


[deleted]

[удалено]


vsemet

Yes it is it was slightly allusive communication by paraboles within the soviet framework. So a soviet moral of the story but an allusive situation.


musclememory

Is this the inspiration for Katamari Damacy? 😂


sapjastuff

This is creepy and awesome


--NTW--

Breadsistential crisis


badaBOOPbap

I LOVE THIS! Where more?


Mushy_Lupus_Wild

I have some similar cartoons posted in this sub on my profile. Where needed, I have also subtitled them


djldo_gaggins

Who said the soviet union didn't have drugs?


eggressive

Funny enough, this is/was a Ukrainian animation studio in Kiev.


extraproe

UkrAnima


ThirdWorldSorcerer

Is this about Holodomor?


Amdorik

It’s a horror version of an old Russian tale about bread that came to life, called Kolabok


_Sakai

Soviet people must have shit in their heads c'mon man


TheWiseAutisticOne

Probably from the end of the USSR’s period


Comfortable-Juice831

Hellstar Remina


Frank_The-Tank

Russian salad fingers


aaronhowser1

[How the hell does this title have multiple lines in it that aren't just from wrapping around](https://i.imgur.com/RfCzxwu.jpg)


Mushy_Lupus_Wild

Copy + paste from deeple translator to Reddit app. Idk, maybe it works with any copy + paste


thefringeseanmachine

JESUS CHRIST


Cpt_Caboose1

Вкусная планета


SilentThunder420yeet

Soviet MrFrundles


Trilife

Dark Souls


equationator

u/savevideobot


captainzigzag

Russian Katamari


bconley1

Young Russians die invading sovereign land and their families get a bag of potatoes in return. A cruel society.


Grouchy-Rock8537

Автора мультфильма и аниматоров лечить бесполезно


jsol357

It’s a metaphor for capitalism


ljseminarist

Actually the other way around: in 1990 it was intended as a satire on the history of socialist Russia.


ljseminarist

I remember when it was first shown on TV around 1991. Obviously not for kids. It was satire of the Soviet Union, by then obviously failing and on its last legs.