Don't say "gop" until you jump over. Clean sport is almost as elusive as honest politics. One of the few indisputable advantages of Soviet propaganda was sports, love for which was instilled from a very young age. Who is First? is an early sports cartoon released in the Stalin era. Racing competitions are of great interest even though the participants are cartoon hares, foxes and two bears. All thanks to the fact that the author's text is read by a professional radio commentator Vadim Sinyavsky.
Races with typical participants from the forest zone of European Russia are not simple, but with obstacles that add excitement. Logs, puddles, hills force athletes to make detours or even get off their bicycles. But since the participants are still children, some people break through obstacles directly, leading to unwanted delays and even dangers. The obvious disadvantage of the track and, accordingly, the cartoon itself is the admission of duck games right in the path of cyclists. The calculation, of course, was made to circumvent the obstacle, but nothing prevented scattered athletes from injuring defenseless birds.
Despite the fact that the main character seems to be a hare, the fox is most sympathetic, who is desperate to finish, but does not abuse the advantages. At the most polished site there is a moment when one participant does not ride, but runs to the finish line, holding a bicycle in his hands and in the end even takes not the last place. That doesn't look very credible. Try running yourself with a vedocycle to see for yourself.
Bicycles, by the way, used the old model, with curved steering wheels. Now they are no longer produced, and this circumstance makes the cartoon not only sports, but also historical. The 1950s were an era that has passed and will never return. But the craving for sports has not lost its relevance until now.
8 out of 10