Anatoliy Taraskin

Fitil is a popular Soviet/Russian television satirical/comedy short film series which ran for about 500 episodes. Some of the episodes were aimed at children, and were called Фитилёк, Fitilyok, Little Fuse. Each issue contained from the few short segments: documentary, fictional and animated ones. Directed by various artists, including Leonid Gaidai who presented his famous trio of Nikulin, Vitsin and Morgunov into the cast. It was called in USSR as "the anecdotes from the Soviet government".

A modern fairy tale about how a boy, who was called a coward, decided to take revenge on the guys with the help of a magic pill, but soon realized that being vindictive is not good and judging others based on first impressions is unfair.

A heartwarming cartoon for little ones about two ducklings — a football player and a musician — who promised a beautiful duck that they would learn to play: the football player on the trumpet, and the musician would play football. The musician-duck trained hard for a whole month, while the football player did nothing: "You just blow harder and play; what’s there to learn?" And after a month, they finally showed what they had accomplished...

An cartoon about how a musician duckling, who could not play soccer at all, helped his friends to win the decisive match.