A programme about a mischievous girl and a bear watched by millions of British children is accused of being a “soft propaganda” tool for the Kremlin (Mark Bridge writes). The English-language Masha and the Bear has more than 4.18 million subscribers on YouTube and, in various languages, the animated series has gained 40 billion views across 13 channels. Children enjoy watching the feisty little girl and her gentle giant protector. However, critics in Russia’s neighbouring states have claimed the series, from a Moscow studio, is part of the country’s propaganda machine.
Russia’s Embassy in London recommended that the UK work to protect itself from impact of the Russian animated television series "Masha and the Bear".
>"An important issue raised by @thetimes today: How UK can find salvation from "Masha and the Bear"? Launch an Ant-Cartoon Excellence Centre somewhere in the Baltic? Place all cartoonists on EU sanction list? Clearly a decisive - and a very expensive - approach is needed!"
Linas Kojala, the Director of the Eastern European Studies Center, explains in the animated movie, the friendship of a little girl and a bear are shown. The bear (a symbol of Russia) is portrayed as good, peaceful, caring, and supervising the small, impish girl. In some of the episodes, Masha wears an NKVD soldier’s hat (which belongs to the Bear), which clearly indicates the goals of the propaganda animated series. With such symbolism, the Stalinist repressions are seemingly normalized, made to look innocent, and acceptable in the modern day.
That show is subliminal pedo propaganda similar to elsagate
Michael Roberts
Are they jealous of her hat? I thought they loved communism
Adam Bennett
retarded hohohoho
Ethan Hall
Oh shit That's the problem Russians should have made the bear a strong black man
Andrew Kelly
Based comrade masha killin g*rmns and br*ts and fr*nch
Justin Cooper
>With such symbolism, the Stalinist repressions are seemingly normalized, made to look innocent, and acceptable in the modern day. Have you seen anything coming out of Hollywood in the past 10 years? FFS
Josiah Hernandez
This so is pretty harmless, I have a 4 year old... What you need to watch out for is some of those kids youtube channels.... super bizzare fucked up shit on there. Stream it to your TV so you can change the channel if a weird Russian channel gets queued
Charles Carter
Talk to a Pole in Poland and the main subject will be how much he hates Russians
Noah Moore
that's what baltics p*les and khokhols are, mentally ill schizos that are eternally butthurt and think that russia will invade them any day now for 27 years
Alexander Stewart
This cartoon first and foremost was made for the internal audience (in RU language). fucking twats with their "muh propaganda".
Benjamin Thompson
бэcд и peдпиллд
Lincoln Hall
It first time I hear about this show. These days children will watch everything. I saw it every day, moms giving kids iPhone with YouTube open and kids mindlessly watch whatever it recommended section. This cartoon getting a lot of views in Russia, so YouTube putting it on top of recommended section. And children all over the world watch it, but not because of Russian propaganda machine, but because of YT algorithms.
Landon Gonzalez
all media is propaganda, 90% of the media british people watch is american and/or jewish propaganda, the rest is BBC-tier british swill. the cunts whining about this are just jealous of their monopoly, they don't care about the british.
>those youtube channels It's a shame because theres some quality cartoons I can only find on youtube but I have to sit there like a hawk ready to close the shit out in case one of those "syringe injected turds to make them change color to the tune of old macdonald" videos comes on.
James Evans
this was the most wholesome cartoon any of my kids ever watched.
Tyler Collins
YouTube see no difference.You know how it works, right? AI analyze only thumbnail.
Ian Taylor
Yeah, ones that are mostly just sound effects with bizarre graphic art are likely psychologically damaging
Juan Brown
This. Before it has English translation my son watched it with Russian audio. It’s a legit wholesome show and actually funny as a non-NPC adult. Russian-derangement syndrome
Oliver Diaz
but poles are not liberals..
Michael Murphy
This. I first watched it in Russian looking for content for my daughter that wasn't LGBT, go fucking kill yourself, friendly. We don't watch any TV and very rarely cartoons, but I'll be damned if she is watching anything America has put out in the last 10 years. Fuck your gay nigger brainwashing, if these Jews turn my daughter into a coal burner I'll kill her myself.
Jose Ward
этo знaчит чтo шoy тeпepь пpoизвeдeнный для глoбaльних зpитeлeй
Me and my wife watched every single episode in Russian and it didnt even matter because it is such good visual comedy. Especially the one where the wolves kidnap the girl.
Isaac Phillips
>with a bit of Russian culture.
Uhm excuse me white folks don't have no culture. Educate youself, ignorant cracka mothafugga bix nood.
Tyler Sanchez
I am white and married to an asian woman. We have a mixed son.
Most american kid shows have non-white protagonists and also show asians in a subservient role.
Because of this, my son watches mostly chinese shows with asians as the protagonists. This is one of the few shows that he can watch with a white protagonist.
He may not care because he is a kid, but I am not having him watch cartoons with white cucks in subservient roles.
Lastly, of course this cartoon shows russia in a positive light, it is a russian show.
Juan Wood
Anything is better than these anglo-jew gay propaganda.
this episode is old as fuck. they are just now complaining?
Nolan Flores
I also believe that the problem in the bear, the bear is too kind and retarded.
John Cook
>marrying an asian woman kill yourself beta loser
Aiden Harris
>shit-tier bong media claims Russian cartoon is "propaganda" >presents to evidence other than a fucking child wearing a hat from a soviet era organization that no child would have any knowledge of Literally Russian man bad
I love this show, European leaders just hate it because it features a trad white girl. Dangerous stuff.
Nathaniel Flores
how many aryan kids do you have, mohammed?
Christopher Nelson
thats the immediate impression that I get. Most of them are extremely vulgar too. Theres more than a few where in one part its turds getting injected by syringes and then the next part is an ice cream cone with the same turds instead of ice cream
Ryan Cooper
This show is fucking garbage. It’s brainwashing to make your kids dumb. t. Russia
Samuel Walker
That's just how Russians are though, Ivan
Aiden Williams
fpbp
the UK doesnt like it because it is nigger free and devoid of jewish lessons.
fuck commies, but the show is very wholesome and funny. its better than anything else for little girls.
its sad that they make better things for children to watch than we do.
> West decries Russian propaganda > Teaches children butt-sex and tranny shit in public schools
JUST
Bentley Gomez
this exactly
Grayson Rivera
>hot dick what the fuck did you just call him
Gabriel Sanchez
Agreed. I've watched it with my son a few times and as someone who spends all his time on here im finely tuned to detecting propaganda. BBC kids shows are the worst. Pure anti-white propaganda and we're forced to pay for them!
Lincoln Evans
They say it's propaganda in order to force children to watch proper western propaganda instead of this refreshing and old school cartoon.
Just watched an episode, complete propaganda, everyone knows Russians don't have food, all of them are drunk and violent, children work in gulags etc etc, this showed none of those things, obvious propaganda, they weren't even invading other countries and supporting ISIS in this show.
No they wrote the article over a year ago, nobody was interested then so they just reposted it on a different news site since they ran out of things to blame on Russia for the week.
Angel Bell
you do realize that Asians are Asians and not your version of "Asians", right?
my child may have browner hair than mine and slanty eyes, but he loves me more than his mom and would follow me into battle if i asked him to do so. meanwhile you are going to die alone in a pensioners home if you are lucky. what will more than likely happen is that as you are demographically replaced, the muslims will violently take over all of britain and you will be slaughtered and your body unceremoniously disposed of.
Cooper Robinson
dying childless is the biggest form God can give you no worries about attending the children you are really free to do what ever you want. Your wife probably doesnt love you because there is no offspring connected. You wll die like a untold legend. will probably be a channer of punchlines for being one of those people that never had the chance
Cucked libtards subconsciously see themselves in the troublesome Masha and they blame Russia for that ?
Carter Brown
If they ban it Russia can ban some of the ((((((((western)))))) cartoons in return.
Jason Jenkins
you just need to avoid anything russian related. here most apparent propaganda by russians is their news sputnik. proper news but propaganda and twisted stuff put inbetween. a naive person wont notice it
Landon Smith
south asians and east asians are both asians. i was assuming he meant east asian you realise most non-whites in my country aren't muslim, fucking retard
Kayden Taylor
your country is integrated into the anti-white western world order and will become a third world shithole
Isaiah Edwards
ahaha nice projection. reality is that everything happening in your country is not happening in rest of world
Jackson Carter
it sounds like you are coping hard
Nathan Sanders
Russian propaganda should be illegal unlike based ho((ywood kind!
Lincoln Hall
Can Masha take the knot?
Christian King
god damnit you stupid fucking russians. Kek'd at first and said that Russian cartoons are better than what we have here.
But the NKVD was the jewish assassination team responsible for the mass execution of white people in Smolensk, Vinnitsya, etc.
Russians must TOTALLY AND ENTIRELY disavow and condemn. Showing the NKVD in good light should carry with it a penalty of death. If you don't know what i'm talking about, goys, do some research.
I wonder how day care for old white people is in south africa :)
Andrew Parker
you're attacking me based on my country? look at your own faggot, london was 60% white in 2011. new york was 40% at best. you're in no position to make fun of others
all this because i called you out as a race mixer LMAO it's already happening moron
