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We need a Russian to comment with some examples of the exceedingly black humour that developed under communism.
by growlist 6y ago
We need a Russian to comment with some examples of the exceedingly black humour that developed under communism.
- m0zg 6y agoSoviet-born Russian-American here. How may I be of service? Some of that humor, BTW, could land you in a labor camp if a secret KGB agent (секретный сотрудник) heard it. So it was only shared with very trusted audiences.
- growlist 6y agoTell me a joke!
- PeterisP 6y agoFor whatever reason, this comes to mind - A judge meets a colleague in the corridor who's chuckling and wiping tears from his eyes, saying "Ah, I just heard the best joke of my life!" - "So tell me?" - "I can't, I just assigned 20 years of hard labor for it.." But the Soviet economic sytem was one where you could go to a shop and ask "You don't have sausage, I suppose?" and they would answer "No! Here we don't have milk, the shop on the other side of the road doesn't have sausage!"
- harry8 6y agoAs a mere suggestion, Vitaly Vitaliev writes beautifully in English. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitali_Vitaliev https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitali_Vitaliev I'd recommend "Borders Up," ostensibly about drinking culture around the world. Good fun, but rather more than that somehow.