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Poland: Communist Jokes

Written byVeronica Khokhlova
Posted 21 April 2006 23:41 GMT

According to one Russian historian, about 200,000 people were sent to camps for telling jokes in Stalin's time. The beatroot doesn't find Communist jokes funny: according to him, “the jokes were the serious antidote to the very funny horror of reality.”

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