Regards,
“...a cheap, 1950s drive-in movie...”
There was a very low-budget ‘50s film produced by Ken Curtis who played Festus on GUNSMOKE. In that film, THE GIANT GILA MONSTER, the sheriff asks the main character Chase Winstead if he heard about the report out of “Russia or the Ukraine” about the giant baby and how giants exist. It was a cool film that featured some neat hot rods and ‘50s lingo.
It appears this story about “Pavel” may be a fake according to what appears to be careful research. Or could it be a complicated set up to accuse Ukraine of making things up and proving that everything Russia or Pooty Pals say is the truth? This was suggested in this post at comment #42. Below is the link for the newly posted research that “proves” this story is a fake. Does it really do that?
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/4077204/posts