The Curious Case of Plavunets

With the words 'Director's Cut' I'm sort of warning you that the episode is long. Though all my cartoons are director's cuts. There can't be any other version, because I do everything alone. I can't even make an electrician's cut — I fix everything myself. :) So pick a time to watch the whole thing calmly in one sitting. This isn't some TikTok clip to scroll past — this is about a genuinely serious metaphysical paradox. We all want there to have been no Hitler or Stalin in the past, but would we ourselves exist then?..