So a couple of weeks back I wrote a column about a series of racist jokes all inspired by our new president. In it I sorta pointed out that racist jokes seemed to be enjoying a renewed popularity and that some, perhaps, were being told under the guise of political satire.

Now I'm all for satire, and, contrary to the accusations of some of the e-mails I received, I'm also all for the First Amendment. I don't think the tellers of racist jokes should be jailed or fined or anything like that, but I do think that those of us who are offended by them need to start speaking up.

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Well, let me tell you, I got a lot of e-mails, almost as many as a received that time a few years back when I suggested that Clay Aiken just might be gay. (That time everyone who took the time to write disagreed with me. And all of them were really, really mad at me. Really mad. It was actually a little weird.) Anyway, I was inspired to write about the racist political jokes when one of my very best pals told me about her mom, a professional woman who gets hundreds of e-mails each week. And every now and then she gets some ridiculous Barack Obama joke or cartoon with a punch line that has something to do with watermelons or fried chicken. Well, Gaby Libby, who is now my new hero, decided to let people know that she didn't find them funny and sent e-mails back letting the senders know.

Honestly, who wouldn't find a picture of the White House with a Kentucky Fried Chicken sign Photoshopped on the lawn to be absolutely hilarious and worth forwarding to everyone in your address book? (That was sarcasm.) Well, I'm really happy to say that many, many of you are tired of the stupid, racist and offensive "jokes" making the rounds, and you're speaking up. Sure, I also received a flurry of notes from folks who apparently enjoy a good racist joke far too much to give them up, and, they point out, there are jokes about Italians and Jews and rednecks and Puerto Ricans, so that makes it fair, right?

But I'm feeling optimistic that more of us will respond to a black/ Italian/Jewish/redneck/Puerto Rican joke with a blank stare or, better yet, a gentle but firm, "You know, I don't think that's funny." People like Patricia, who wrote this to me, encourage my optimism: "I have also been disturbed by (racist jokes) but have been feeling powerless to change them. One thing we can all do is express our opinion that such remarks are indeed racist and not humorous." And there you have it.

Russian political jokes are a part of Russian humour and can be grouped into the major time periods: Imperial Russia, Soviet Union and post-Soviet Russia. In the Soviet period political jokes were a form of social protest, mocking and criticising leaders, the system and its ideology, myths and rites.[1]Quite a few political themes can be found among other standard categories of Russian joke, most notably Rabinovich jokes and Radio Yerevan.[citation needed]

In Imperial Russia, most political jokes were of the polite variety that circulated in educated society. Few of the political jokes of the time are recorded, but some were printed in a 1904 German anthology.[2]

Ben Lewis claims that the political conditions in the Soviet Union were responsible for the unique humour produced there;[5][4] according to him, "Communism was a humour-producing machine. Its economic theories and system of repression created inherently amusing situations. There were jokes under fascism and the Nazis too, but those systems did not create an absurd, laugh-a-minute reality like communism."

This is another joke about how disastrous the consequences of collectivisation were on Russia's food supply, how Trotsky wanted to treat peasants harshly to uplift workers, Bukharin vice versa, and how capitalist countries were still faring well in spite of this.[8]

Alexander Solzhenitsyn's book Gulag Archipelago has a chapter entitled "Zeks as a Nation", which is a mock ethnographic essay intended to "prove" that the inhabitants of the Gulag Archipelago constitute a separate nation according to "the only scientific definition of nation given by comrade Stalin". As part of this research, Solzhenitsyn analyzes the humor of zeks (gulag inmates). Some examples:[11]

The Armenian Radio or "Radio Yerevan" jokes have the format, "ask us whatever you want, we will answer you whatever we want". They supply snappy or ambiguous answers to questions on politics, commodities, the economy or other subjects that were taboo during the Communist era. Questions and answers from this fictitious radio station are known even outside Russia.

Jokes about Vladimir Lenin, the leader of the Russian Revolution of 1917, typically made fun of characteristics popularized by propaganda: his supposed kindness, his love of children (Lenin never had children of his own), his sharing nature, his kind eyes, etc. Accordingly, in jokes Lenin is often depicted as sneaky and hypocritical. A popular joke set-up is Lenin interacting with the head of the secret police, Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky, in the Smolny Institute, the seat of the revolutionary communist government in Petrograd, or with khodoki, peasants who came to see Lenin.

Jokes about Nikita Khrushchev often relate to his attempts to reform the economy, especially to introduce maize (corn). He was even called kukuruznik ('maizeman'). Other jokes target the crop failures resulting from his mismanagement of agriculture, his innovations in urban architecture, his confrontation with the US while importing US consumer goods, his promises to build communism in 20 years, or simply his baldness and crude manners. Unlike other Soviet leaders, in jokes Khrushchev is always harmless.

During Brezhnev's time, the leadership of Communist Party became increasingly geriatric. By the time of his death in 1982, the median age of the Politburo was 70. Brezhnev's successor, Yuri Andropov, died in 1984. His successor, Konstantin Chernenko, died in 1985. Rabinovich said he did not have to buy tickets to the funerals, as he had a subscription to these events. As Andropov's bad health became common knowledge (he was eventually attached to a dialysis machine), several jokes made the rounds:

Mikhail Gorbachev was occasionally mocked for his poor grammar, but perestroika-era jokes usually made fun of his slogans and ineffective actions, his birth mark ("Satan's mark"), Raisa Gorbacheva's poking her nose everywhere, and Soviet-American relations.

In its declaration of national glories, the Soviet government claimed at various times, such as through Pravda publications, to have invented the airplane, steam engine, radio, and lightbulb, and promoted the pseudoscientific agricultural claims of Lysenko as part of Stalinist pseudohistory.[23][24] This was joked about in the phrase "Homeland of Elephants [ru]" from the early 1940s, sardonically claiming that the Soviet Union was also the birthplace of elephants.[24][25] An anecdote from Andrei Sakharov includes "(1) classics of Marxism-Leninism-Stalinism on elephants; (2) Russia, the elephants' homeland, (3) the Soviet elephant, the world's best elephant (4) the Belorussian elephant, the Russian elephant's little brother."[25]

Jokes about Boris Yeltsin commonly revolved around the economic shocks caused by privatisation, the rapid democratisation of the Russian political scene, and corruption and authoritarianism by Yeltsin's government.

You might find it true to believe, but the first political puns date back as history jokes in the Soviet Union under the brutal dictatorship of Stalin. The fate of Boris Orman, who worked at a bakery, provides a typical example. In mid-1937, Boris Orman shared an anecdote (political joke) with a coworker in the bakery cafeteria. It led to 10 years of prison because it was said out loud. However, cracking jokes in whisper mode around family tables were the ones that lighted up the spirits of citizens in those dark times.

A small plane carrying five passengers but only four parachutes starts running into trouble. The passengers are Anthony Fauci, the pope, Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, and Greta Thunberg.Fauci grabs a parachute, says "I must be saved because I'm needed to help get the US through the pandemic", and jumps out.The pope grabs a parachute, says "I must survive because I'm needed to lead my millions of followers through the pandemic", and he straps on a parachute and jumps out.Trump says "I must be saved because I'm the smartest man in the world" and he straps himself in and jumps.Hillary turns to Greta and says "You'd better take the last parachute because you're young and have your whole life ahead of you"."Relax", says Greta. "There are still two parachutes left. The smartest man in the world just grabbed my backpack and put it on."

I grew up in a communist country. I hear and read Americans say about communism. Do the schools actually teach what communism and socialism is/was? Social security, libraries, and public schools are examples of socialism. Unions and trying to over throw an election are examples of communism. 152ee80cbc

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