Quote Originally Posted by Throbert McGee View Post
The cartoon version by "Узбекфильм" studios, crucially, retains the suburban-California setting of the original (instead of relocating it to, say, the reuins of a futuristic Odessa suburb!), and therefore the cartoon-skeletons that Soviet audiences saw crumbling to dust are the bodies of dead Americans, rather than dead Soviets. However, this isn't simply a case of the director trying to be completely faithful to the source, because the cartoon also adds some elements NOT found in Bradbury's story, such as a laser-shooting "Automatic Defense Robot" and a robotic "cuckoo clock" that plays the US national anthem and waves a little US flag (those damned American capitalists -- warmongers and jingoists to the end!).

So, there is a little bit of "Soviet propaganda" in the cartoon adaptation
Hmmm... I don't see it as intentional/additional propaganda. Bradbury was extremely popular in the USSR, and I think that relocating the setting to some Soviet suburb would've seemed weird to his fans and a bigger propagandistic "trick", i.e. a hint (among other theories), that the evil you-know-who attacked us and destroyed our cities.
Also I did not expect that a cuckoo clock which played an American anthem and waved a flag would be seen as "Soviet propaganda" from American POV. It did not exist in the original (so yes, there was an agenda behind adding it), but Americans are proud of their patriotism, are they not? )