Humorous subjects pertaining to Russian and Soviet culture
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Russian jokes
Alternative name(s)
Анекдоты (Russian)
Language(s)
Russian, English
Russian jokes (Russian: анекдоты, romanized: anekdoty, lit. 'anecdotes') are short fictional stories or dialogs with a punch line, which commonly appear in Russian humor. Russian joke culture includes a series of categories with fixed settings and characters. Russian jokes treat topics found everywhere in the world, including sex, politics, spousal relations, or mothers-in-law. This article discusses Russian joke subjects that are particular to Russian or Soviet culture.
A major subcategory is Russian political jokes, discussed in a separate article.
Every category has numerous untranslatable jokes that rely on linguistic puns, wordplay, and the Russian language vocabulary of foul language. Below, (L) marks jokes whose humor value critically depends on intrinsic features of the Russian language.
commonly appear in Russian humor. Russianjoke culture includes a series of categories with fixed settings and characters. Russianjokes treat topics found...
Russian political jokes are a part of Russian humour and can be grouped into the major time periods: Imperial Russia, Soviet Union and post-Soviet Russia...
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broadcaster called the Armenian Radio (Russian: армянское радио) in USSR and Radio Yerevan elsewhere. These jokes are typically structured in a question-and-answer...
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about Polish people, and the persistence of ethnic jokes about them, is not easy to trace, though the jokes seem to be understood by many who hear them. Sometimes...
suffering from a disproportionally large casualty rate among Russian forces. Chukchi jokes are a form of ethnic humor. They are portrayed as primitive...
jokes spawned two successful comedy films - Manta – Der Film [de] and Manta, Manta, the latter starring Til Schweiger as a Mantafahrer. Russianjokes:...
humour, its vast scope ranges from lewd jokes and wordplay to political satire. According to Dmitry Likhachov, Russian comedy traditions in literature could...
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such as blonde jokes, or ethnic jokes (such as Pollack joke) have a considerable amount of joke riddles. Elephant joke Lightbulb joke Newspaper riddle...
active life in Russia. For more information, see the articles Russian citizens (Russian: россияне, romanized: rossiyane), Russians (Russian: русские, romanized: russkiye)...
[citation needed] Russianjokes, the most popular form of Russian humour, are short fictional stories or dialogues with a punch line. Russianjoke culture features...
efforts Operation DDR-Witz (GDR Joke), BND agents were instructed to collect and evaluate political jokes from the GDR. The jokes were collected through a variety...
kindness. Cheburashka is an iconic Russian cartoon character who later became a popular character in Russianjokes (along with his friend, Gena the Crocodile)...
for Godot Vovochka, diminutive form of Vladimir, common character in Russianjokes Vladimir, a character from My Life as a Teenage Robot Vladimir "Uncle...
Bellman jokes tended to focus on C. M. Bellman's life at court, and often contained sexual humour. Since then, however, the Bellman character of the jokes has...
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Mandelstam, Gen. Władysław Anders, and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. In Soviet Russianjokes, it was referred to as "the tallest building in Moscow", since Siberia...
exaggeration, jokes, parody, gallows humor, pranks, ridicule and sarcasm. Military humor often comes in the form of military jokes or "barracks jokes". Military...
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