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Soviet Humor Reflects Self-Ridicule Amid Press Censorship
In Moscow humor thrives despite stiff censorship as jokesters poke at officials and the system. Arkady Raikin dominates as the popular stand up, mixing Mort Sahl and Jerry Lewis tactics to skewer bureaucracy while state cartoons critique West Germans as pigs and Americans as sharp nosed monsters.
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Moscow
Pravda
Truth
Sovietskaya Rossiya
Soviet Russia
Trud
Labor
Russia
Alexei N. Kosygin
Arkady Raikin
Raikin
Soviet Union
Mort Sahl
Jerry Lewis
Charley Weaver
Krokodi
Croc Wie
Park Bench
Santa Claus
Defense
Rodion Malinovsky