Friday, July 14, 2006

Hammer & Tickle: The Art of Soviet Joke-Telling

Communism is the only political system to have created its own international brand of comedy. The standard interpretation is that communist jokes were a form of resistance. But they were also a safety valve for the regimes and jokes were told by the rulers as well as the ruled - even Stalin told some good ones.

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