Was it jokes that defeated Communism? - Telegraph Was it jokes that defeated Communism? - Telegraph: "Noel Malcolm reviews Hammer & Tickle: A History of Communism Told Through Communist Jokes by Ben Lewis
Poor Mr Gorbachev. Every time he met Ronald Reagan at a summit, he was subjected by the American President to a stream of Russian jokes. Or rather, to be precise, Soviet jokes - the point of which was always to satirise some aspect of life under communism. What made it worse was that some of them really were very funny."
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COMMUNIST JOKE RECYCLED:
They made a George W Bush stamp but for some reason it kept falling off the envelopes. Congress commissioned a study and found the problem: people kept spitting on thre wrong side
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