The Life Of An Agent: Secret Soviet police training films and Propaganda Cartoons

The abuses going on in the United States against civilians were a small amount compared to control over Russian controlled countries.

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Soviet propaganda cartoons with English subtitles:

0:00:00 - The Millionaire, 1963, 0:09:54 - Mister Twister, 1963 0:25:31 - Someone Else’s Voice 1949 0:34:57 - Ave Maria, 1972 0:44:33 - Shooting Range, 1979, 1:03:51 - Mr. Wolf, 1949, 1:13:58 - Black and White, 1933 1:16:27 - Cinema Circus, 1942, 1:20:03 - Fascist Boots Shall Not Trample Our Motherland, 1941, 1:22:48 - Vultures, 1941, 1:25:01 - What Hitler Wants 1:33:14 - To You Moscow, 1947 1:50:46 - The Adventures of the Young Pioneers, 1971 2:08:23 - The Pioneer's Violin, 1971 2:16:10 - Vasilyok, 1973 2:25:53 - A Lesson Not Learned, 1971 3:31:08 - Attention! Wolves! 1970 2:48:04 - Tale of a Toy, 1984 2:57:18 - We Can Do It, 1970 3:06:45 - Interplanetary Revolution, 1924 3:14:35 - We'll Keep Our Eyes Peeled, 1927 3:17:20 - The Shareholder, 1963 3:40:52 - Proud Little Ship, 1966 3:58:55 - Prophets and Lessons, 1967 4:08:29 - China in Flames, 1925 4:40:00 - Forward March, Time! 1977 4:58:10 - Soviet Toys, 1924 5:08:57 - Samoyed Boy, 1928 5:16:02 - Little Music Box. 1933 5:36:23 - Lenin's Kino Pravda, 1924 5:37:19 - Results of the XII Party Congress 5:41:12 - Victorious Destination, 1939 5:48:01 - War Chronicles, 1939 5:57:01 - A Hot Stone, 1965 6:13:41 - Songs of the Years of Fire, 1971 6:32:34 - Plus Electrification, 1972

Gabor Zsigmond Papp's darkly ironic historical documentary The Life of an Agent stitches together a compilation of instructional films used in Cold War Hungary to train secret government police. Papp uses much screen time to draw striking aesthetic, stylistic and thematic parallels between those works and the Z-grade, cliché-ridden fictional thrillers of the day, thus demonstrating how the Hungarian government modeled its propaganda on the conventions of popular cinema. The films at hand provide police trainees with suggestions on such procedures as: leading home raids, conducting rudimentary surveillance and planting moles.
-- NY Times
HERE IS THE FILM:

Behind the paywall: Propaganda. A documentary on Soviet film as propaganda.

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