So successful was Aelita upon its release that it has earned its own cartoon spoof in the same year! Interplanetary Revolution doesn't just capitalize on the feature's popularity, however - it serves as a mild political corrective. In 1924, the year of Lenin's death, the Communist Party began to distance itself from the "world revolution" doctrine; therefore the notion of the rising Martian proletariat was just past due, and safe to ridicule.

by Robert Skotak