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S2006E31: Hammer and Tickle

Storyville · Season 2006
Aired 10 Oct 2006 at 9:00pm (UTC)
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Synopsis

How jokes became the language of truth under the oppressive Communist regimes of the Soviet Union and its satellites, from bitter quips denouncing Stalin's gulags to digs at the technology gap of the 1970s and the cynicism of the 1980s.

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