Eastern European Animation

Eastern European Animation refers to Animated Shows from Eastern Europe, which includes Russia and countries from the now-defunct Soviet Union, as well as most other ex-socialist European countries.^note The exception being the former East Germany, which ceased to exist in union with West Germany in 1990. Actually, classifying these as "shows" is very inaccurate; some of them are features, some are actual shows; most of them are isolated shorts that don't have a theatrical release. but do have initial airings on television. In fact, there were no animated shows in the Soviet Union; those that look like shows are series of loosely connected shorts, with long (sometimes over 10 years) intervals between "releases". Overall, network and medium seem to matter much less in Eastern European culture, at least to the average viewer — in part because there was only one thing to watch for so many years — so not making the distinction between features, shorts, and series on this page is justified. However, the post-Fall era animation is more westernized in formal aspects, with a proper division into features, shows, and shorts.

Whether Eastern European Animation can be considered a form of Western Animation is up for debate as many people do not think of Eastern Europe as "Western".

See also Anime and Asian Animation.

Examples:

References to Eastern European animation in other media: