The Trunkovs are modeled after the ZAZ-968 Zaporozhets, a car model from Soviet Ukraine, which means that there was a Soviet revolution in the cars history and by extension so existed the works of Car-le Marx and Vladimir Lemon.
Anyway, were all sick at the house and were just binging kids movies. Cars 2 is so weird. I thought the first 15 minutes were going to reveal to be some in universe movie the cars were watching. Then it just kept going...
When that didn't turn out to be a bit or gag I was very surprised. Thankfully my kiddo isn't old enough to put two and two together like that...