When I decided to learn the cyrillic alphabet, I had the advantage of being able to watch a few relevant episodes of Спокойной Ночи, Малыши; not only did I learn my alphabet but I really appreciated the puppetry of not just hands and mouth but even the eyes —to great expression— of Степашка, Филя и Хрюша.
(one of these days I suppose I should also learn the cyrillic handwriting script...)
golergka
> On 10 October 1935 the People’s Commissariat for Education of the Kazakh SSR had declared that a puppet theatre be established
Just a couple of years after communists engineered a famine that killed 2 million kazahks.
cess11
Propaganda?
Sure. Still better than contemporary pervasive advertising.
(one of these days I suppose I should also learn the cyrillic handwriting script...)