{"id":11806,"date":"2019-05-02T16:21:57","date_gmt":"2019-05-02T23:21:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=11806"},"modified":"2019-05-02T16:22:04","modified_gmt":"2019-05-02T23:22:04","slug":"putins-provocations-are-met-with-ridicule-in-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/putins-provocations-are-met-with-ridicule-in-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"Putin’s provocations are met with ridicule in Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Please read this piece by my colleague Paul Roderick Gregory in The Hill<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dictators fear being ridiculed with humor. Jokes about Stalin were punished by prison or death. In China, a TV anchor was threatened for jokes<\/a> mocking Mao Zedong. In Venezuela, the Maduro government counts anti-Chavismo satire<\/a> as punishable by censorship, cancellation or even jail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Russia, Putin has signed<\/a> a law that imposes fines and jail for online material that disrespects the state, the constitution and bodies exercising state power.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A popular Russian joke goes: \u201cIf you criticize the authorities, you\u2019ll be prosecuted under the law against insulting officials. If you praise the authorities, you\u2019ll be prosecuted under the law against fake news.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The new president of Ukraine, comedian and TV star Volodymyr Zelensky, as a graduate of improvisational comedy, understands the power of lampooning political opponents. This skill earned him an unlikely landslide victory<\/a> in the crowded Ukrainian presidential race.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Please read this piece by my colleague Paul Roderick Gregory in The Hill Dictators fear being ridiculed with humor. Jokes about Stalin were punished by prison or death. In China, a TV anchor was threatened for jokes mocking Mao Zedong. In Venezuela, the Maduro government counts anti-Chavismo satire as punishable by censorship, cancellation or even jail. In Russia, Putin has signed a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1169,1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-34q","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12857,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/navalny-proves-too-hot-for-poisoner-putin\/","url_meta":{"origin":11806,"position":0},"title":"Navalny proves too hot for ‘poisoner Putin’","author":"victorhanson","date":"February 13, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"An article by my Hoover colleague Dr. Paul Gregory in The Hill On Feb. 2, the Moscow City Court sentenced Russian opposition leader\u00a0Aleksei Navalny\u00a0to two years and eight months in jail. 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