As I was surfing the World Wide Web, I came across a recent article about the truthfulness of Soviet jokes. They used to tell the brutal truth without any compunctions, the article claims. By way of an example, here is a joke that grabbed my attention: “How do we know that Adam and Eve were Soviet citizens? They had one apple between the two of them, they had no clothes, and they believed they were living in paradise.” Remembering the Soviet Union and its orbit, as well as Yugoslavia on its edges, I laughed and laughed. And I remembered one of the books that can always be found next to me: Ben Lewis’ Hammer & Tickle: The History of Communism Told through Communist Jokes, London: Phoenix, 2008 (“Three Piles of Books,” September 7, 2019). As it happened, my beloved regaled me with it for my sixty-forth birthday (“Alcoholism,” May 9, 2010). Not surprisingly, many people ended up in prison for telling jokes like these in the times past. And the law binding humor and truth was abundantly clear behind the Iron Curtain: the more truthful the humor, the longer the sentence. Justice above all!