The history of Soviet jokes:

Jokes were an essential part of the communist experience because the monopoly of state power meant that any act of non-conformity, down to a simple turn of phrase, could be construed as a form of dissent. By the same token, a joke about any facet of life became a joke about communism. There have been political and anti-authority jokes in every era, but nowhere else did political jokes cohere into an anonymous body of folk literature as they did under communism. With the creation of the Soviet bloc after the war, communism exposed itself to Czech and Jewish traditions of humour—mutating viruses to which the system never developed the right antibodies.

I wonder if there are anti-Mullah, anti-Islam jokes in Iran?

The problem with jokes behind the Iron Curtain was rim shots.

The government would send you to school to be a drummer, but you rarely had drums, sticks, and skins all at the same time. And forget cymbals!!

Read Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis part I and II. Plenty of jokes.

Soviet scientists built a computer to calculate how long it would take to reach the perfect state of true communism. They switched it on and immediately it came up with the answer - "18 kilometres". Thinking it must be faulty, they checked and re-checked the components and every line of code, but still the answer remained "18 kilometres".

Finally, one of the scientists turned to his colleagues and said "Comrades, don't you see? Comrade Khrushchev tells us that every Five Year Plan takes us one step closer to true communism!"

I cannot seem to get you general links to work. I'm not having trouble on any other web sites. I recently had to replace a hard drive, but I don't see what that would have to do with it.

I look in on your site almost every day and find it very interesting. I seem to have no trouble getting into the comments.

I don't know what to tell you. What browser and OS are you using?

"I wonder if there are anti-Mullah, anti-Islam jokes in Iran?"

There are certainly plenty of anti-Bush jokes.

> I cannot seem to get you general links to work.

Transterrestrial's links seem to be caught by pop-up blockers, such as the one in Yahoo's IE toolbar.

The Corpus Christi Caller Times once had an article on Soviet jokes. My favorite was the one about the guy who loses his parrot and calls the KGB to report it stolen, adding "I want you to know that I disagree with its views."