Internet users found an unexpected subtext in a song from the Soviet cartoon: it is supposedly hidden a reference to the first wave of Jewish emigration from the Soviet Union. We checked the reliability of such statements.
In October-December 2024, a text was widely spread on the Web, the author of which spoke about the unknown majority of the connection between the songs from the cartoon about Cheburashka and the repatriation of Soviet Jews. It said: “Jewish emigrants went first to Vienna, and from there someone to Israel, and who is where. The Moscow - Vienna car was attached to a train that went only to the border of the USSR. The train wagons were green, and only Vienna, in which the Jews rode, - blue. Numerous friends and relatives who escorted them at the Moscow station knew this very well. Of course, the authors of the songs of Shainsky and Uspensky did not leave, of course, knew. ” This text It turned out especially Popular V Facebook, and also spread By Many entertaining sites.
The song "Blue car" composer Vladimir Shainsky and writer Eduard Uspensky composed for the cartoon "Shapoklyak" - the third of the series about the adventures of Cheburashka. In their interviews, both did not talk about the circumstances described in the viral text related to the origin of this song. Shainsky emigrated In Israel in 2000, but several years later he moved to the United States. As for Uspensky, he, although repeatedly I was in Israel, did not (judging by open sources) of citizenship of this country.
In the cartoon, which was released in 1974, it is unambiguously indicated that we are talking about the Moscow -Yalta train (and at the end of the tape, when, in fact, the song “Blue Lag” sounds, the composition is already in the opposite direction).
In reality, there is no railway in Yalta. The railway station closest to this city is located in Simferopol, from where you can get to Yalta by car, taxi or public transport (in particular, on the intercity trolleybus, which is coming from the Simferopol station). It is noteworthy that the story of the Assumption ""Vacation of the crocodile genes", Which was the basis of the cartoon, in this detail is slightly different from Script: In the story, the train should not specifically in Yalta, but to the southern coast of Crimea. In addition, in the original text of Uspensky, it is specified that the train departs from the Kyiv station.
The wagons of Soviet trains were most often stained in green, but for branded trains they made an exception. They had special liveries of different colors, including blue and blue shades: for example, Moscow - Murmansk, Moscow - Kyiv, Moscow - Novorossiysk and others.
As for the train to Vienna, on which the Soviet Union is really Leave Many emigrants of the 1970s, then in the viral text it is described inaccurately. In particular, the author claims: "The car Moscow - Vienna attached to a train that went only to the border of the USSR." In fact, a train Moscow - Rome, which was walking through Vienna, which Sent from the Belorussian station. It was not possible to find reliable information about whether he wore the status of the company and whether his own livery was “verified”. At the same time, in all of the color photographs of the 1960-1980s we found in open sources, the wagons of this train are painted in standard green with a yellow strip.
Most likely, the author of the encircled text is a writer Leonid Sapozhnikov. At least, the earliest publication that was “verified” and which contains a statement about the connection of the “blue carriage” and Jewish emigration, appeared In his Telegram channel on April 27, 2024 at 08:25 Moscow time. In the comments, the author clarifies that he told the story known to him since the 1970s. On the same day, the text under another heading (“Farewell Jewish Song” instead of “From the History of one Song”), but also signed by Sapozhnikov appeared In the Boston online almanac "Swan". In response to the question “verified” the writer confirmed his authorship, but at the time of the publication of this analysis, he did not explain what sources his text was based on.
Thus, there is no evidence that the song “Blue Wagon” contains references to the experience of Jewish emigration from the USSR. The wagons of a number of Soviet branded trains were painted in blue, but the Moscow train - Rome, which followed Vienna, was green. There are no reliable data that part of the wagons of this composition was blue in open sources. The text about the special significance of the song “Blue Wagon” was first published in the spring of 2024, the earlier references to this theory (for half a century from the moment of writing the composition) was also not found.
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