internet humor about stalin netinalju stalinist - Eesti Rahvaluule

Editor’s preface
and diverse, and for this reason no attempt has been made to develop extremely
precise principles for references.
Each typological entry begins with a “header” that consists of the title, statistics
and references to print sources. e title is the joke unit’s “expanded
heading”, i.e. a lapidary summary of its content, an aphorism defining the
unit, or a punch line formula, etc. in three main languages: Estonian, Russian
and English. Example:
Aitäh sm. Stalinile õnneliku lapsepõlve eest! ||| Спасибо товарищу
Сталину за наше счастливое детство! ||| We thank Comrade Stalin for
our happy childhood!
Beneath the title are consolidated statistics in ordinary print concerning
that particular typological unit. Example:
SUM=38/28 RUS 8/4 EST 5/5 FIN 2/2 ENG 20/14 (ref 7/7) GER 3/3
e above phrase should be understood as follows:
e joke is represented in the investigated part of the Internet by 38
texts, which are divided into 28 differently worded forms. ere are a total
of 8 Russian-language texts (in 4 different wordings). ere are 5 Estonianlanguage
texts, each with a separate wording. ere are 2 Finnish-language
texts, and both have a different wording. ere are 20 texts in English, with
14 forms with different wordings; of these, 7 texts, each also representing a
separate form, originate from “live” or “real” contexts. ere are 3 texts in
German, and each is worded differently.
On the next line, reference is made to occurrences of jokes in certain joke
collections and other printed sources, if such could be found, for instance by
the title of joke No. 3: Kolasky 12; Benton & Loomes 104; Dolgopolova 7, 30;
Lukes & Galnoor 9/10; Ruksenas 164; Harris & Rabinovich 32; Борев Ф 128;
Mustajoki 16/7; Susiluoto 42. ese notes should be seen purely as examples.
No effort has been made to determine the bulk of available printed sources
or the frequency of occurrence of Stalin jokes in printed material, since the
total volume of that work is unimaginably great.
Since this collection has been compiled by an Estonian researcher and will
be published in Estonia, the two Estonian-language print sources – Jüri Viikberg’s
“Anekdoodiraamat” (Viikberg 1997) and Kadi Sarv’s publication (Sarv
1995) – have been accorded special status: they have not been referred to
merely by references at the beginning of the type entry, by the title, but have
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