Leon Aron

Leon Aron is the author of Roads to the Temple, Yeltsin, and many other books and essays. He is the director of Russian Studies at the American Enterprise Institute.

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Russian Jokes Tell the Brutal Truth

In a repressive society, dark political jokes allow regular people to describe what they see with their own eyes.
- Leon Aron
- November 29, 2019