Five funny facts about Winnie the Pooh: how does the Soviet bear cub differ from the English original

Many of us remember a teddy bear with sawdust in his head with an amazing voice performed by Evgeny Leonov, mainly from a Soviet cartoon. However, not everything in the feed corresponds to Boris Zahoder's translation.

In fact, Winnie the Pooh, stuck in a rabbit hole, stayed there for exactly a week. All this time, the good Christopher Robin was reading books aloud to the bear. But the Rabbit used Pooh's legs as a hanger for washing clothes. This option is much more in line with the truth about diets, but greatly stretches the plot, as you know. And nobody expected such a dirty trick from a Rabbit. The Book Rabbit looks more like Disney than Soyuzmultfilm.

In principle, the Rabbit is generally a strange person. In the cartoon, he is shown as a kind of academician or a school excellent student. In the book, he has 17 children. He himself does not remember the exact number and does not talk about his wife either. But Winnie the Pooh counted only 15 children with him. Needless to say, the Rabbit takes part in the life of children with a little hunting.

The mysterious inscription on the house of the Heel is nothing but a family heirloom. And this is not an excerpt from the phrase "No trespassing", but the real name of Grandpa Piglet. You can guess that "B" is the first letter of the name of a relative, whose original name was William. Probably, one of the mysteries of childhood will now remain in the past. In the original — Trespassers Will, that is, Will Trespassers. In Russian, the "V" remained.

The owl in the cartoon, though wise, was still bad at writing. And on the pot in the original version of Boris Zakhoder there was an indecent inscription:

ABOUT IN VAIN FOR FUCK'S SAKE GIVE UP THE MARCH OF THE DAY ABOUT IN VAIN FOR FUCK'S SAKE FOR FUCK'S SAKE

The Owl simply deceived the illiterate Fluff by saying that it was written on the pot: "Happy birthday!" Of course, the exact text of the Entry would now look very original. By the way, the Owl is not the only one who could write. Rabbit handled it even better.

The ball that Piglet wanted to give to Eeyore the Donkey was not green, but red — the donkey's favorite color. The favorite size turned out to be the same — from a Piglet.