The declared goal of the Bolsheviks was "to abolish the capitalist state with all its means of oppression".
Ben Lewis wrote in his essay,[3] book,[4] and film[5] (all titled Hammer & Tickle) that "Communism was a humour-producing machine.
Its economic theories and system of repression created inherently funny situations.
There were jokes under fascism and the Nazis too, but those systems did not create an absurd, laugh-a-minute reality like communism."
"Mineralny sekretar" was a nickname for General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev (due to his anti-alcohol campaign).