„Az állatkert lakói is összegyültek, hogy érdekeik képviseletére bizalmit válasszanak”
“Even the inhabitants of the zoo have convened to elect a warden to promote their interests.”

Summary/Abstract: During the Hungarian Soviet Republic, which lasted for 133 days in 1919, several jokes criticizing and attacking various aspects of the regime were born. After the fall of the dictatorship, complete joke series dealt with the period of the Soviet Republic. Some attacked and made fun of the events and people of the dictatorship era: the leaders, the state of internal affairs, and various episodes in culture, foreign policy and warfare. These are the subjects along which it is worth classifying the jokes. But they can also be categorized according to how their creators relate to these subjects: whether they show or criticize the phenomena in a descriptive way, or whether they express some sort of hope or desire (for the fall of the dictatorship, for example) and attack the regime this way. The jokes can also be classified by their textual structure. The paper also examines how single jokes in the series relate to various, but primarily humorous works (jokes, anecdotes, pictures etc.) created either during the Soviet Republic or in other periods as well as to the fake news that were spreading in Budapest during the dictatorship. It also discusses how the jokes were handed down to posterity.

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