It’s interesting, at least for me, I couldn’t watch most recent hollywood movies, they’re too predictible and barren of essence. Older hollywood movies are a different story but what’s been coming out lately I find highly unwatchable.
Communism came with heavy censorship. You had to be sly to pass some jokes.
For instance, Seksmisja features a scene where two guys end up in the middle of nowhere. One says "let's go east, there must be civilization there". The east if of course a dab at the Soviet Union. There were jokes that 99% of the population would understand, and yet the censors would miss them.
The entire premise of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welcome,_or_No_Trespassing is that people who seek power (and hence rise in bureaucracies) take themselves way too seriously. So maybe all a censor had to do was to make sure the jibes were cerebral enough that uncultured people would automatically take the opposite[1] Poe's Law interpretation...
[1] for polyvalence, cue the Stalin/moustache joke
(Based on Boyarskiy's stage personality, I'm guessing the following had some ambiguity:
Пора пора порадуемся на своем веку
Красавице и кубку, счастливому клинку
despite being the theme song for a kid's show. Or am I overinterpreting?)
That's what I was thinking of (most recently seen by me in a Rule 63 quartet complete with costume horses for New Year's carnival).
Sorry if it wasn't a kids' show; I had assumed so from the all the YouTube comments when I discovered it to the effect of "cool, I totally remember watching this at my grandmother's." But maybe that says more about how old current internauts were in 1978 than what the target audience really had been?