internet humor about stalin netinalju stalinist - Eesti Rahvaluule

Editor’s preface
repressions of the 1930s, the events of the Second World War, deportation to
Siberia, large-scale construction built with prison labour, etc.
Structure of typological unit, abbreviations and other symbols used
e typological entries consist mainly of a list of the various wordings of
particular jokes, with commentaries on each version.
e texts are offered in the five above-mentioned original languages, without
translation. ese “Internet languages” are identified with the following
three-letter abbreviations:
RUS = Russian-language; EST = Estonian-language; FIN = Finnish-language;
ENG = English-language; GER = German-language. is is also the
order in which the texts are presented within each typological unit.
Note: ese abbreviations designate languages, and not the texts’ geographical
origins (countries, states).
Within each “Internet language”, non-contextual text versions are listed
in descending order by the total number of texts representing each version
(these are usually copies from some earlier e-source(s), and less often coincidentally
identical independent transcriptions). After that come the text
versions that originate from specific contexts (chat rooms, lists, articles, digital
journals and literature), arranged in the same manner. All other criteria
being equal, joke texts or fragments of broader contexts are arranged in the
alphabet of the given language.
After each cited text version is a commentary about it, offering the following
information:
(1) the linguistic identification of the text, and the number of web texts
representing that variant that I have found, for instance: RUS 14, EST 1 etc.;
(2) after the latter number, abbreviations referring to the special status of
the text version are, if necessary, added:
a) ref – indicates that the text comes from the context of a chat room,
mailing list, newspaper column, current affairs article, e-novel etc.;
b) colref – used in special circumstances in which the number of different
contexts is so great (especially, for instance, in regard to an aphorism)
that it would be technically impossible to cite them all, for instance on the
line following the phrase “Не важно ~ Неважно, как голосуют, важно, как
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