Excellent; go read about the history of children’s television programming:
Comrade Kangarooski
Sponsored by The Daily Worker and the Tuboretski Tractor Works, Comrade Kangarooski was famous for his lengthy monologues on the ultimate triumph of socialism, reading accounts of soviet party congresses and defending the Rosenbergs. He encouraged kids to facilitate the work of their collectives, report their parents for revisionist thinking, and shoot Kulaks.
He generated viewer participation by holding contests. One, in which he invited children to take a picture of themselves in front of experimental American aircraft, drew over thirty thousand responses. Others included:
• The best-drawn map of a defense installation,
• Denounce your favorite FBI Stool Pigeon, and
• A scavenger hunt for CIA one time cipher pads.His success was also short-lived, however: At the height of his popularity, Stalin recalled him to Moscow and had him shot.
UPDATE: Once again, I’ve bowed to my readers’ unreasonable requests for functioning links.
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Dear Atilla,
May I call you Hun? Your link is going here:
http://instapundit.com/archives2/006746.php
Doesn’t seem related.
Thank you. Those diseased mind products are some grins, eh?
So the KGB is finally releasing the TRUTH. . . About time!
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