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A comment on Hammer and Tickle (2006).

Re:Hammer and Tickle (2006) by homarp on Sunday August 28, 2022 @12:54PM (#32629875)
>[article author] also came across a wonderfully overwritten PhD thesis by the Stanford anthropologist Seth Benedict Graham: A Cultural Analysis of the Russo-Soviet Anekdot (anekdot is the Russian word for a political joke).

https://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/9560/1/grahamsethb_etd2003.pd...

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Re:Hammer and Tickle (2006) by gukov on Sunday August 28, 2022 @01:31PM (#32630185)
An anekdot doesn't have to be political. Actually, most of the time it isn't.
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