1982 Krokodil Issue #18, Soviet Satirical Magazine with Political Caricatures from USSR

Description 1982 Krokodil Issue #18, Soviet Satirical Magazine with Political Caricatures from USSR

Cover: a hollow suit of armour with pink plumes, admired by two women — "So what if he is empty inside, look at the shine!" Cartoon by A. Krylov.

• Road safety special — Vladimir Sviridov reports from the "Ekh, prokachu!" exhibition, interviewing the head of the Moscow traffic police on drink-driving, potholes and city jams.
• Lessons by Sergei Kondratyev — mock school lessons in zoology, geography and physics, each one really about traffic rules. Drawings by G. and V. Karavayev.
• The Cuckoo with a Wind-Up by Yuri Borin — a feuilleton on the Food Programme adopted that May: fertilisers, harvests and machinery that never arrives.
• Hot Line — readers letters on the absurdities of Soviet daily life.
• Cartoons by Vl. Dobrovolsky, Yu. Cherepanov, V. Safonov and E. Vasilyev.

Issue 18, June 1982. Krokodil was the main satirical magazine of the USSR, published in Moscow by the Pravda Publishing House three times a month.