Чебурология
"Cheburashka’s mysterious origins provide one of the central intrigues of the series, and Cheburashka’s embodiment of the Soviet Jewish type is primarily an issue of emplacement. The first episode opens with a fruit vendor opening up a crate of oranges and finding an adorable cross between a brown bear and an imported orange. Looking at the strange creature, the grocer reads the crate packaging in exaggerated English, “Oh-ran-jes!”
Not coincidently, Israel was the main source of orange imports to the Soviet Union. More to the point, Jaffa oranges were the signature export of the Jewish state."
"Crocodile Gena is an Old Bolshevik who walks around with a pipe dangling from his mouth in Stalin chic-but at the end of the day, when Crocodile Gena is free to leave the zoo, he sits at home all alone with nothing to show for all of his compromises. "
http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-arts-and-culture/260892/cheburashka-soviet-animation
Not coincidently, Israel was the main source of orange imports to the Soviet Union. More to the point, Jaffa oranges were the signature export of the Jewish state."
"Crocodile Gena is an Old Bolshevik who walks around with a pipe dangling from his mouth in Stalin chic-but at the end of the day, when Crocodile Gena is free to leave the zoo, he sits at home all alone with nothing to show for all of his compromises. "
http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-arts-and-culture/260892/cheburashka-soviet-animation