"If someone enters the room and kisses all the men, it's a woman. If he comes in and kisses women, it's a man. And if he kisses everyone in a row, it's Brezhnev."Of course, everyone has long known that during the Soviet era jokes about Soviet sex were composed in Odessa, on Malaya Arnautskaya. About Soviet politics — in America, in the CIA. And freedom of speech itself was an anecdote. Well, or an anecdote is the only manifestation of this very freedom.Today Odessa is far away, in another country. The CIA forgot how to invent jokes because it switched to fakes. But thoughts about sex, freedom and politics still take possession of the minds of ordinary, already former Soviet citizens.This book is one of the most complete collections of political anecdotes invented in the Soviet era. Its relevance is comparable only to Lenin, who, as you know, "Lived. Alive. And he will live!".The publication contains:• More than 1300 jokes on 23 topics.• Illustrations, index of sources and comments on names and Soviet realities.• A brief history of the USSR: from revolution to perestroika — funny and sad.