And then there was Captain Planet, which was pro-environmentalism propaganda. In that show the American boy was a devil-may-care idiot while the Soviet girl (his crush) was smart and conscientious. It stayed on the air longer than it probably should have given its quality, mainly because of Ted Turner's enormous pull in the industry.

That's the difference between the USA and the USSR: in the USSR such counterpropaganda would have been quashed and its creators sent to the gulag.