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Removed the unsourced claim "In the Stalinist police state this was prone to danger, as it was not uncommon to get purged not only for telling a casual joke, but even for not reporting it to the authorities."

This is an urban legend, not a hard fact.

Yeah it's a hard fact. Go read Wikipedia's own article about Stalin's purges. Given that apparently he satirized communism according to this article, it's amazing he wasn't murdered for it during the 1930s. The article doesn't address how he avoided being shot or sent to the gulag or both. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:1012:A024:BCA1:2D05:FB17:BD80:A961 (talk) 08:31, 2 August 2025 (UTC)Reply

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