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I'm also fascinated by animations from other countries such as the Communist era USSR, Nazi Germany and North Korea. I know we have had our cartoons over here like Donald Duck's "In Der Fuhrer's Face" and Disney's "Education for Death" with Little Hans but as we know our adversaries made their own cartoons and films.

I did see on You-Tube, a pro-Nazi cartoon made by Vichy France called "Nimbus Libere" (sp) (1943) where it shows Allied bombers flown by Popeye, Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse and Felix the Cat as a tail gunner and Goofy as the top turret gunner. You see a French Family listening to a radio to the BBC where they are being told by the announcer, drawn obviously Jewish by the animators, that they will be free soon and then the US Bombers hit the French Family's house and then the Grim Reaper lands on top of the destroyed house and laughing real hard. I also saw another Third Reich cartoon from 1944 about an animated snowman, a Christmas cartoon, which I found surprisingly politics free.

As to Soviet cartoons, they are interesting too, I saw one from 1923 called "Christmas Toys" and many others too.

There is a fine line between being "fascinated" by these totalitarian regime produced films and being entertained or even inspired by them, especially if the viewer is immature and/or ignorant of history - which regrettably is all to often the case with the younger generations in today's United States.

And historical ignorance, in turn, is a major reason why younger voters were significantly more prone to vote for Obama in the last two presidential elections than were their parents and grandparents.

When you see man (or woman) in the street interviews on shows like "Hannity" on FoxNews, you can't believe how freakin' dumb some "millenials" are on American history and current events! Expose these nitwits to the films you mentioned and you're like playing with dynamite.