Russia blocks on Youtube old Soviet cartoon with ‘Z’ wreck

It is a cartoon for children from 50 years ago, but today it scares the Russian authorities who have decided to ban their compatriots from viewing it on Youtube. His fault? Telling the adventures of a group of kids who, on a submarine voyage, come across the wreck of a ‘fascist’ ship, distinguished by the initials Z29. And – as one of the young protagonists of the cartoon shot in the Soviet age explains – “Fascist destroyers were marked with the letter Z”. Far too much for a Russia devastated by the sinking of the missile cruiser ‘Moskva’, flagship of the Black Sea fleet. Thus, while the letter Z has become the symbol of Moscow’s aggression against Ukraine all over the world company ‘Soyuzmultfilm’, explains the online newspaper ‘The Insider’ – has decided to block Russian visitors from accessing “Treasures of Sunken Ships”, a 16-minute cartoon filmed in 1973 in the classic style of the Eastern European era . Not only that, even comments on the video are disabled. Clearly to avoid inappropriate references to current events.