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Funny im fine meme11/14/2023 ![]() A newspaper account of a Russian tsar's coronation had, instead of "korona" (crown), the misprint "vorona" (crow), and when next day this was apologetically ‘corrected,’ it got misprinted a second time as "korova" (cow).In Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov, the fictional author of the "Foreword", Charles Kinbote, cites the following Russian joke: There were also numerous politically themed Chastushki (Russian traditional songs) in Imperial Russia. The Tsar gives his decision in writing: "Permitted to subtract two asses". A respected merchant, Sevenassov ( Semizhopov in the original Russian), wants to change his surname, and asks the Tsar for permission."No, sir, I meant not our respected Tzar, but another Nikolay!" - "Don't try to trick me: if you say 'moron', you are obviously referring to our Tsar!" A man was reported to have said: " Nikolay is a moron!" and was arrested by a policeman.Few of the political jokes of the time are recorded, but some were printed in a 1904 German anthology. ![]() In Imperial Russia, most political jokes were of the polite variety that circulated in educated society. Quite a few political themes can be found among other standard categories of Russian joke, most notably Rabinovich jokes and Radio Yerevan. In the Soviet period political jokes were a form of social protest, mocking and criticising leaders, the system and its ideology, myths and rites. Russian political jokes are a part of Russian humour and can be grouped into the major time periods: Imperial Russia, Soviet Union and finally post-Soviet Russia. ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) ( August 2022) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Several templates and tools are available to assist in formatting, such as reFill ( documentation) and Citation bot ( documentation). Please consider converting them to full citations to ensure the article remains verifiable and maintains a consistent citation style. This article uses bare URLs, which are uninformative and vulnerable to link rot.
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