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Some previously mentioned childrens' programming: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23387876

Masha i Medved[1] have recently been running a series in which each episode focuses on a different country. Today's happens to be the US[2]:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5sMJtXcZTo

"Tell me Mr. Siberian Bear, where does power come from? The Hare says it comes from money. I say it comes from truth."

Getting things past the censors: https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Файл:Sharik_Figvam.jpg

[1] itself a reference to a folk tale, while "immensely popular" means Masha has even been a guest on the same late night talk show frequented by better US ambassadors. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmcHXt1va_c

[2] just in case any americans are curious about what what parts of their culture make it across the Bering strait.

"American Boy" (1991), a song by a late-soviet pop group, may also be of interest: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7hAo28NCXc (Apina and Varum have gone on to lasting fame)

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> "Tell me Mr. Siberian Bear, where does power come from? The Hare says it comes from money. I say it comes from truth."

This is straight from a cult Russian movie Brother 2 (Brat 2)