What is the difference between the fraternal help and aggression? The Soviet political joke about the aggression against Czechoslovakia in 1968 Cover Image

Na czym polega różnica między bratnią pomocą a agresją? Sowiecki dowcip polityczny o agresji przeciwko Czechosłowacji w 1968 r.
What is the difference between the fraternal help and aggression? The Soviet political joke about the aggression against Czechoslovakia in 1968

Author(s): Rostysław Kramar
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, History, Political Sciences
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: USSR; Prague Spring; political folklore; joke; ZSRR; Praska Wiosna; folklor polityczny; dowcip

Summary/Abstract: The article concerns Soviet political jokes that arose as a reaction to theaggression of the USSR in 1968 in Czechoslovakia. It is emphasized thatpolitical folklore is an important source material that gives a fuller picture ofthe contemporary moods of the Soviet society as well as its evaluation of theKremlin’s policy towards Czechoslovakia. In this article proposed a thematicclassification of Soviet political jokes on the events of 1968 in Czechoslovakiaand the so-called normalization.

  • Issue Year: 2019
  • Issue No: 12
  • Page Range: 63-78
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: Polish