The Russian -speaking Internet claims that such a council of education was given to parents of the whole world, Pope Paul II. We checked the reliability of such statements.
The Pope allegedly said: “I would recommend to all parents to raise children at Soviet cartoons. They are the most humane and Christian in the world, beneficial to the soul, because they educate sympathy in the child, the patronage of the weak and kindness. ” This statement can be found on entertainment sites, it Popular in "VKontakte" And Facebook, he is quoted by such famous figures of Soviet animation as Grigory Gladkov And Leonid Schwarzman.
Karol Jozef Voitil himself, the future Roman dad John Pavel II, did not grow on Soviet cartoons. He was born in 1920 in Poland, which had already received independence by that time. Most likely, if Karol watched cartoons in childhood, then it was work Walt Disneywho were popular in Europe in the early 1930s (although it is impossible to find out exactly). Perhaps Voitla saw a full -length tape Vladislav Starevich "Reinex-Lis" - she was published in 1930. As for the Soviet cartoons, they were unlikely to be shown in pre -war Poland, and by the beginning of World War II the future Pope had already managed to graduate from school.
The Cardinal Voitil was elected the head of the Catholic Church in 1978 and stayed on this post until his death in 2005. Official documents related to his papal activity (texts of letters, apostolic messages, bulls, speeches, encyclil, etc.), are stored in the archives of the Vatican, and most of them are digitized and most of them Available online. However, in them “verified” did not find mention of either Soviet animation or animation as a form of art in general. The word animation (“revival, spiritualization” - English) is mentioned there only in the context of religion - in phrases like “Christian spiritualization of the world of culture". It can be assumed that the pontiff spoke of any of the interviews, but the search in Google in Polish, Italian and English also did not give suitable results. And if articles about the pope and Soviet cartoons were able to find in these languages, then they were posted exclusively on Russian resources.
In some publications about Soyuzmultfilm studio Approvedthat the recommendation to watch Soviet cartoons pontiff gave his flock after the success of the tape "Snow Queen»At the festival in Venice in 1957. Leonid Schwartzman also He saidThat this council sounded "shortly after the [World War II] War, in the midst of the Cold War." However, in this case, this statement cannot be related to John Paul II - at that time the Pope was Pius XII, and Karol Voitla lived in Poland and taught Ethics in Catholic universities. He was appointed cardinal only ten years later, and his pope became 21 years later. However, not in the archives Pia XII, neither in publications about him we also did not find such a statement.
Thus, although it is impossible to declare with one hundred percent confidence that John Paul II never said anything about Soviet cartoons, publications that he recommended to educate children with their help only in Russian sources. In the materials about the pontiff in English, Italian and Polish, such information is absent. There are no similar quotes in the archive of documents on the Vatican website.
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