1943-4. Made during the darkest years of WW2. If subtitles appear to be missing: turn on CC in the bottom right of the video. Based on a children's poem by Korney Chukovskiy. The poem existed before the war (written in 1927), but the war made it very relevant.
Credits: [ Ссылка ]
Original poem in Russian here: [ Ссылка ]
Originally translated on: June 20, 2009
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