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Hammer & Tickle

Podcast: Ben Lewis’ History of Communism Told Through Jokes

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There are many ways to tell history. One of the most revealing may be by relating the jokes of a time and a place. Ben Lewis does that in Hammer and Tickle. These are jokes of people victimized by Communism in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe.

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