Hammer and Tickle Storyville : Season 11 Episode 70
BBC Two 45m int(0)
Aired: November 22nd, 2007 @ 10:00 PM EST on BBC Two
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.