Russians Like a Joke on Themselves
MOST people picture Russians at war (and even at peace) as grim, unsmiling warriors or workers. In fact, they have a lively sense of humour. The sketch we reproduce is taken from Crocodile, which is Moscow's equivalent of Britain's Punch or America's New Yorker.
It consists of eight pages, dozens of pictures, comic verse, satirical prose, and letters. Contributors are the Soviet's finest artists and writers. Crocodile costs 3d, and is read all over the Soviet linion. Ihe magazine is not afraid to laugh at absurdities in the Soviet regime, and its criticisms are often deadly attacks on incompetence in administration. Crocodile takes its name from a popular character in children's tales.
Pictures, prose and verse from the journal have been collected in a new
book published in Britain: "Crocodile Album of Soviet Humour" (Pilot Tress).
i i HERO WORSHIP "He's our best worker. He produced 500 units on one shift!" "We've lost 800 in the time wasted congratulating him."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume 80, Issue 24775, 24 December 1943, Page 3
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