Cipollino
Cipollino, or Little Onion, is a fictional character from Gianni Rodari's eponymous Tale of Cipollino (Italian:Il romanzo di Cipollino), also known under its 1957 renamed title Adventures of Cipollino (Italian:Le avventure di Cipollino), a children's tale about political oppression. Cipollino was popular in Soviet Union, up to the point of being adapted as a ballet composed by Karen Khachaturian and choreographed by Genrik Alexandrovich Maiorov, originally staged in Taras Shevchenko National Opera and Ballet Theatre of Ukraine in 1974.