In 1924, Zenon Komissarenko, Youry Merkulov and Nikolai Khodataev produced Interplanetary Revolution, which might just be one of the strangest Soviet propaganda films ever produced.First, the film is animated using not only traditional cel animation but also collage and stop motion, giving the work a queasy, disorienting feel. A bit like looking at a painting by Henry Darger.Then there is the film’s story. As an intertitle proclaims, this is “a tale about Comrade Coninternov, the Red Army Warrior who flew to Mars, and vanquished all the capitalists on the planet!!” This already sounds better than John Carter.The movie, however, is rather hard to follow without either the appropriate amount of revolutionary fervor or, perhaps, hallucinogens. Interplanetary Revolution opens with a wild-eyed, ax-wielding bulldog with a top hat – a capitalist, obviously. Other capitalists, with swastikas on their foreheads, suck the blood from a hapless member of the proletariat. (By the early 1920s, Germany’s nationalist right had adopted the swastika, and Soviet propagandists quickly used it to brand capitalists as fascists.) Then the revolution comes and a pantless capitalist demon loses his mind after devouring a copy of Pravda. Next, the capitalists board a giant flying shoe and fly off into space. From there, the film gets kind of weird.You can watch the whole thing above. It’s also added to our list of Free Animated Films, a subset of our collection, 4,000+ Free Movies Online: Great Classics, Indies, Noir, Westerns, Documentaries & More.Note: An earlier version of this post appeared on our site in 2015.Related Content:Watch Dziga Vertov’s Soviet Toys: The First Soviet Animated Movie Ever (1924)Watch the Surrealist Glass Harmonica, the Only Animated Film Ever Banned by Soviet Censors (1968)Watch Dziga Vertov’s A Man with a Movie Camera, Named the 8th Best Film Ever Made“Glory to the Conquerors of the Universe!”: Propaganda Posters from the Soviet Space Race (1958–1963)The Beautiful, Innovative & Sometimes Dark World of Animated Soviet Propaganda (1925–1984)Jonathan Crow is a writer and filmmaker whose work has appeared in Yahoo!, The Hollywood Reporter, and other publications.