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

How the CIA Used ‘Animal Farm’ As Cold War Propaganda  History.com

The Incredibly Bizarre World Of Animated Soviet Propaganda Films  Gizmodo

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

The Mystery of the Third Planet: An Intro to Soviet Animation With a Children’s Adventure Turned Cult Classic  reactormag.com

New DVDs (Published 2007)  The New York Times

Subversive Shorts: How Eastern Bloc animators evaded Soviet censors  The Skinny

Animated Propaganda During the Cold War: Part One  Animation World Network

Propaganda through cartoons during wars. How did Disney and other studios promote political ideas?  Свідомі

Welcome to the Wagner-verse, where action films serve up propaganda for Russia’s notorious mercenary army  Los Angeles Times

‘Antz’: Marxist Propaganda for Kids  The Cornell Daily Sun

MPs seek to end UK broadcast of Russian ‘soft power’ cartoon Masha and the Bear  The Guardian

‘Baby T-34’  Meduza

Andy Serkis to Direct Animated Adaptation of ‘Animal Farm’ for Cinesite  Variety

A Conservative Studio Has Returned With an Adaptation of Animal Farm. It’s Not What You Think.  Slate Magazine

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

Watch Interplanetary Revolution (1924): The Most Bizarre Soviet Animated Propaganda Film You'll Ever See  Open Culture

Behold Soviet Animations of Ray Bradbury Stories  Open Culture

Russian film Mr Nobody Against Putin nominated for Best Documentary Oscar  Новая газета Европа

Watch Earth , a Landmark of Soviet Cinema (1930)  Open Culture

Sky News Australia. . Menzies Research Centre’s Freya Leach has discussed a new AI-like cartoon for children to teach them about geopolitics and the world, which was produced by one of Russia’s most infamous propagandists.  facebook.com

In sharing our animated stories, we can seem less like strangers  Scena 9

The Russian Film Industry Goes East  The Moscow Times

Russia steals “Mavka. The Forest Song” animated feature film  Ukrainian World Congress

'The Overcoat' Has Been In Production For 40 Years – And It's Not Even Close To Being Finished  Cartoon Brew

Classic Film Review: 1954’s CIA-backed “Animal Farm”  rogersmovienation.com

Russia’s Paranoid Patriotism Gets a Cartoon Movie  Global Voices

Anti-racism in Early Soviet Visual Culture  African American Intellectual History Society