Zhanna Dolgopolova ( Жанна Долгополова) graduated Herzen Pedagogical University, Department of Russian Language and Literature (St. On the whole, the jokes are better than those in 'Hammer and Tickle', although some have nothing to do with life in the then Soviet Union. 'Really, and why so?' 'If we’d had a newspaper like Pravda, no one would have heard about Waterloo!” Jokes such as this abounded in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe at the time but were often told by persons in crowds or queues to others nearby after which the teller would quickly depart lest one of the audience members was a police informant. If we’d had a commander like you, Hitler’s troops wouldn’t have got past Kiev', to which Napoleon replied, 'merci, merci, and I’ve long been an admirer of you'. For example, Brezhnev and Napoleon meet in the next world and Brezhnev says 'I’ve long been an admirer or you. 'Really, and why so?' 'If we’d had a newspaper like Pravda, no one wou As with 'Hammer and Tickle', this is a book of jokes told in the then Soviet Union with the humour particular to life as it was in that country at that time. As with 'Hammer and Tickle', this is a book of jokes told in the then Soviet Union with the humour particular to life as it was in that country at that time.

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