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Hammer and Tickle

Duration: 1 hour, 30 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC FourLatest broadcast: on BBC Two Northern Ireland

Ben Lewis's documentary tells the real history of Communism through the jokes told by ordinary people about the oppressive Communist regimes of the Soviet Union and its satellites. Jokes became the language of truth in a society denied free speech and confronted daily with the gap between political propaganda and reality. Show less

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Participant:
Ben Lewis

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