A cartoon with a strange history of creation. At first it was shot without words, and such nonsense was not missed for the show and put on the shelf. And the next year they got it out and announced it because there was a lack of material. I must say, the refinement was good. I clearly remember from childhood how the voiceover announcer transformed a depressing and generally terrible picture with his cheerful story. With age, my opinion has not changed, we have a rare example where voiceover not only does not interfere, but saves the work.
All this was shot, of course, not for the sake of the picture and not for the sake of the plot. This is a fable that must be understood from a special angle. Back then, in the mid-80s, people largely knew what capitalism was going to be and that the Union didn’t have much time left. Western influences penetrated the country. How to make money, what and how to divide and who to cheat – this is already beginning to think. So this cartoon shows how a scavenger is trying to teach something to a nearby ostrich, allegedly to cash in with him, but in fact – on him. That’s what happened to the whole country a few years later.
Here I want to make it clear that I am not against capitalism, private property and true democracy, but our trouble was that it was not built by the hands of ideologues for centuries, and in a few years it was somehow mucked up by every bastard.
P.S. In fact, ostriches never hide their heads in the sand.