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Srećko Horvat: The Easiest Way to the Gulag Is To Joke about the Gulag

  “The question is,” said Alice, “whether you can make words mean so many different things.”
“The question is,” said Humpty Dumpty, “which is to be master—that’s all." – Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass According to Russian historian Roy Medvedev, around 200,000 people in the USSR were sent to a Gulag for telling a joke. When a system is threatened by jokes ...