A study of jokes told under Stalin’s regime as a way of “sharing hardship, cultivating trust, and ultimately acquiescing to life.”

The Morning News https://ift.tt/2ZsFQlK

Stalin was considered and treated in humour as Public Enemy Number One: he was the default object of popular sarcasm, mockery and criticism, and was targeted more often than any other leading figure.

↩︎ The Moscow Times

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