- cross-posted to:
- soviet@hexbear.net
- cross-posted to:
- soviet@hexbear.net
African Tale is a 15 minutes USSR cartoon that tells a story about struggle of a human against “civilised” animals who discovered his homeland. It’s an allegorical story that exposed racism and imperialism of western colonisers in Africa. It’s based on the parable of founding father of Kenya, Jomo Kenyatta. The animation was released in 1963, the same year Republic of Kenya became independent from 
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The part when he smiles after finishing a hard day’s work with the music playing in the background.
It’s such a beautiful and dignified depiction.Let’s see some western cartoons from 1963 depicting Black persons…
The difference between Amerikkkan and Soviet cartoons:
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Comments on this vid are shit. “It was still a quest country!” Motherfucker, shit like this maybe you should rethink that.
granola661 (one of the commenters on the video) immediately gets the wall. Or rather, his house renovated with a Shahed
When people say “things were different back then”, no they weren’t you’re just living in a racist country.
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