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 | | We found, buried among the award-winning animated classics for children, and the equally lauded auteur animated shorts which would become the series known as MASTERS OF RUSSIAN ANIMATION, several dozen films that were, well, clearly of another genre. |
 | | Borsten then found copies of animated propaganda films made in the ‘20s and early ‘30s, before Soyuzmultfilm Studio was founded, including SOVIET TOYS, the very first Soviet animated film, which was made in 1924 by acclaimed documentary director Dziga Vertov. |
 | | Combined with the Soyuzmultfilm propaganda shorts, which were mostly made using Disney-style 2D animation, Borsten realized that collectively the animated propaganda not only chronicled the history of the USSR, but the history of Soviet animation’s artistic development. |
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