--- Wojtek Sokolowski <swsokolowski at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> I am not sure if that was also true of other EE
> countries, like Russia or Romania. Chris? Joanna?
>
> Wojtek
You have to draw a sharp dividing line between the Staln and post-Stalin eras. Telling a joke about Stalin could have very unpleasant consequences, while jokes about Brezhnev and Krushchev were legion.