ABSTRACT
Like any other children in the world, little Soviet citizens took their favorite characters not only from the richly illustrated editions of Russian fairy tales or the rhymes and tales of Soviet children's writers but also from cartoons (mul'tik or mul'tiplikatsionnyi fil'm). And although Soviet children were barred from meeting Walt Disney's figures until the glasnost and perestroika eras, Soviet animators invented their own range of cartoon characters that were loved and adored by the children, much like Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck, Tom and Jerry, or the Pink Panther in the Western world.
