As much as anything, this shows Sivokon's love of little political cartoons (of the sort you'd see in journals and newspapers), and how expressive he could be with very little. Perhaps it also shows why he was able to stay in the Ukrainian animation scene for so long - other more famous directors (such as David Cherkasskiy) relied on their teams and could do nothing when budgets collapsed in the 1990s, but Sivokon needed very little to keep working and was able to just retreat back to his earlier, simpler style (while switching to sand animation to keep costs down even more). Nevertheless, my favourite films by him are the more "lavish" ones he directed in the late 1970s and 1980s.