Switek notes several of the 20th-century contexts in which the term "dinosaur" has been used as "perfect foils for our worries and fears" in the West - by antiwar protesters as "brutes who drove themselves to extinction by investing too much in their armor and weapons" or by Cold Warriors as hapless victims of a meteorite in the same way that "mutually assured destruction" could rain nuclear annihilation down on us all. The headline is a reference to a nearly 10-minute Russian film, 1967's " Mountain of Dinosaurs" ("Gora Dinozavrov"), and its subversive genius.
It impressed him enough to share in a post headlined " The Saddest Dinosaur Cartoon Ever."
Paleontology writer Brian Switek, author of " Written In Stone" and the Laelaps blog, recently stumbled upon a cleverly nuanced bit of animated Soviet propaganda that touches on his field of expertise.
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