Communism came with heavy censorship. You had to be sly to pass some jokes.
For instance, Seksmisja features a scene where two guys end up in the middle of nowhere. One says "let's go east, there must be civilization there". The east if of course a dab at the Soviet Union. There were jokes that 99% of the population would understand, and yet the censors would miss them.
The entire premise of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welcome,_or_No_Trespassing is that people who seek power (and hence rise in bureaucracies) take themselves way too seriously. So maybe all a censor had to do was to make sure the jibes were cerebral enough that uncultured people would automatically take the opposite[1] Poe's Law interpretation...
[1] for polyvalence, cue the Stalin/moustache joke
(Based on Boyarskiy's stage personality, I'm guessing the following had some ambiguity:
Пора пора порадуемся на своем веку
Красавице и кубку, счастливому клинку
despite being the theme song for a kid's show. Or am I overinterpreting?)
That's what I was thinking of (most recently seen by me in a Rule 63 quartet complete with costume horses for New Year's carnival).
Sorry if it wasn't a kids' show; I had assumed so from the all the YouTube comments when I discovered it to the effect of "cool, I totally remember watching this at my grandmother's." But maybe that says more about how old current internauts were in 1978 than what the target audience really had been?
Communism came with heavy censorship. You had to be sly to pass some jokes.
For instance, Seksmisja features a scene where two guys end up in the middle of nowhere. One says "let's go east, there must be civilization there". The east if of course a dab at the Soviet Union. There were jokes that 99% of the population would understand, and yet the censors would miss them.