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Radio Yerevan joke, the Glossary

In the Soviet Union and the former Communist Eastern bloc countries, a popular type of humour emerged in the 1950s and 1960s featuring the fictional broadcaster called the Armenian Radio in the USSR and Radio Yerevan elsewhere.^[1]

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Joke cycles
Russian humour
Soviet humour

Absurdism

Absurdism is the philosophical theory that the universe is irrational and meaningless.

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All that glitters is not gold

"All that glitters is not gold" is an aphorism stating that not everything that looks precious or true turns out to be so.

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Anti-Soviet agitation

Anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda (ASA) (антисове́тская агита́ция и пропага́нда (АСА)) was a criminal offence in the Soviet Union.

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Armenian nationalism

Armenian nationalism in the modern period has its roots in the romantic nationalism of Mikayel Chamchian (1738–1823) and generally defined as the creation of a free, independent and united Armenia formulated as the Armenian Cause (Դատ, or Hye Dat).

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Armenians

Armenians (hayer) are an ethnic group and nation native to the Armenian highlands of West Asia.

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Azerbaijan

Azerbaijan, officially the Republic of Azerbaijan, is a transcontinental country located at the boundary of Eastern Europe and West Asia.

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Baku

Baku (Bakı) is the capital and largest city of Azerbaijan, as well as the largest city on the Caspian Sea and in the Caucasus region.

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Censorship in the Soviet Union

Censorship in the Soviet Union was pervasive and strictly enforced.

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Communist propaganda

Communist propaganda is the artistic and social promotion of the ideology of communism, communist worldview, communist society, and interests of the communist movement.

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Culture of Armenia

The culture of Armenia encompasses many elements that are based on the geography, literature, architecture, dance, and music of the Armenian people.

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East German jokes

East German jokes, jibes popular in the former German Democratic Republic (GDR, also known as East Germany), reflected the concerns of East German citizens and residents between 1949 and 1990.

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East Germany

East Germany (Ostdeutschland), officially known as the German Democratic Republic (GDR; Deutsche Demokratische Republik,, DDR), was a country in Central Europe from its formation on 7 October 1949 until its reunification with West Germany on 3 October 1990.

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Eastern Bloc

The Eastern Bloc, also known as the Communist Bloc (Combloc), the Socialist Bloc, and the Soviet Bloc, was the unofficial coalition of communist states of Central and Eastern Europe, Asia, Africa, and Latin America that were aligned with the Soviet Union and existed during the Cold War (1947–1991).

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Elephant joke

An elephant joke is a joke cycle, almost always an absurd riddle or conundrum and often a sequence of such, that involves an elephant. Radio Yerevan joke and elephant joke are joke cycles.

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Emigration from the Eastern Bloc

After World War II, emigration restrictions were imposed by countries in the Eastern Bloc, which consisted of the Soviet Union and its satellite states in Central and Eastern Europe.

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Emil Draitser

Emil Draitser (born 1937) is an author and professor of Russian at Hunter College in New York City.

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Erectile dysfunction

Erectile dysfunction (ED), also referred to as impotence, is a form of sexual dysfunction in males characterized by the persistent or recurring inability to achieve or maintain a penile erection with sufficient rigidity and duration for satisfactory sexual activity.

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Georgia (country)

Georgia is a transcontinental country in Eastern Europe and West Asia.

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Georgians

The Georgians, or Kartvelians (tr), are a nation and Caucasian ethnic group native to present-day Georgia and surrounding areas historically associated with the Georgian kingdoms.

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Gulag

The Gulag was a system of forced labor camps in the Soviet Union.

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Herring

Herring are forage fish, mostly belonging to the family of Clupeidae.

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Homosexuality

Homosexuality is sexual attraction, romantic attraction, or sexual behavior between members of the same sex or gender.

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Humour

Humour (Commonwealth English) or humor (American English) is the tendency of experiences to provoke laughter and provide amusement.

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Joseph Stalin

Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (born Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili; – 5 March 1953) was a Soviet politician and revolutionary who led the Soviet Union from 1924 until his death in 1953.

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Lightbulb joke

A lightbulb joke is a joke cycle that asks how many people of a certain group are needed to change, replace, or screw in a light bulb. Radio Yerevan joke and lightbulb joke are joke cycles.

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Nikita Khrushchev

Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev (– 11 September 1971) was First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964, and Chairman of the Council of Ministers (premier) from 1958 to 1964.

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Orchestra

An orchestra is a large instrumental ensemble typical of classical music, which combines instruments from different families.

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Pedophilia

Pedophilia (alternatively spelled paedophilia) is a psychiatric disorder in which an adult or older adolescent experiences a primary or exclusive sexual attraction to prepubescent children.

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Political gaffe

A political gaffe is an error in speech made by a politician.

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Public Radio of Armenia

Public Radio of Armenia (Hayastani Hanrayin Radio; Djsy Armradio) is a public radio broadcaster in Armenia.

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Pun

A pun, also known as a paranomasia in the context of linguistics, is a form of word play that exploits multiple meanings of a term, or of similar-sounding words, for an intended humorous or rhetorical effect.

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Rhetorical question

A rhetorical question is a question asked for a purpose other than to obtain information.

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Russian jokes

Russian jokes (anecdotes) are short fictional stories or dialogs with a punch line, which commonly appear in Russian humor. Radio Yerevan joke and Russian jokes are Russian humour and Soviet humour.

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Russian political jokes

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. Radio Yerevan joke and Russian political jokes are Russian humour and Soviet humour.

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Russians

Russians (russkiye) are an East Slavic ethnic group native to Eastern Europe.

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Satellite state

A satellite state or dependent state is a country that is formally independent but under heavy political, economic, and military influence or control from another country.

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Satire

Satire is a genre of the visual, literary, and performing arts, usually in the form of fiction and less frequently non-fiction, in which vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule, often with the intent of exposing or shaming the perceived flaws of individuals, corporations, government, or society itself into improvement.

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Shortage

In economics, a shortage or excess demand is a situation in which the demand for a product or service exceeds its supply in a market.

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Soviet people

The Soviet people (sovetsky narod) were the citizens and nationals of the Soviet Union.

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Soviet Union

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.

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String quartet

The term string quartet refers to either a type of musical composition or a group of four people who play them.

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Warsaw Pact

The Warsaw Pact (WP), formally the Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance (TFCMA), was a collective defense treaty signed in Warsaw, Poland, between the Soviet Union and seven other Eastern Bloc socialist republics of Central and Eastern Europe in May 1955, during the Cold War.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Yerevan_joke

Also known as Armenian Radio jokes, Radio Yerevan, Radio Yerevan Jokes.

Radio Yerevan joke, the Glossary

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See also

Joke cycles

Russian humour

Soviet humour

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