In the Soviet Union everyone was suppose to have equal opportuny. In “Samoyed Boy,” a Nenetz (Eskimo) boy exposes the tricks of the shaman (tribal medicine an/magician) who members of the tribe believe can cure them by putting nimal spirits into their bodies. Humiliated, the shaman drives the boy from the village. He is rescued by a Soviet ship and taken to Leningrad where he studies at special University for Northern Peoples -- beneath the portraits of Marx and Lenin. Irina Margolina (documentary filmmaker): A classic of Soviet animation. The first film for children. It was done in the radition of the primitive Part IV: Onward to the Shining uture – Communism DVD Liner Notes painting of the USSR’s orthern peoples (like Chukcha and Eskimos). It was the first oviet film based on culture of the Northern people.