Oh now this is a trip!  A Donald Duck cult on the European Tribune!  Didn't y'all get the memo about Disney being the poster child for Evil American Hegemony^TM?

I have to admit, I am a little shocked.  I suppose I really shouldn't be.  Winnie the Pooh was a hit in the Soviet Union.  Though they had their own non-Disney version.  It is going to take me a while to digest this.  

Don't get me wrong, I liked some Disney stuff when I was a kid, though it's hard not to succumb when you are force-fed the stuff.  I grew up with cable and the Disney channel.  

I have issues with Donald Duck.  I ... I cannot watch Donald Duck.  I was never able to.  It's difficult to explain; he is always getting into situations where things go wrong, things that are not his fault.  And this frustrates him.  You know he is trying, but he can't catch a break, and then he flips out.  I was very sensitive to this as a kid.  I found it very emotionally upsetting.  I must have had an activist streak early on - I wanted to crawl into the tv and intervene on his behalf.  I genuinely like his character.  But watching those cartoons is painful for me to this day.  It's so cruel to invent a character just to be the butt of jokes, to be picked on, to put in unfair situations so you can laugh at his frustration.  

"Pretending that you already know the answer when you don't is not actually very helpful." ~Migeru.