Herald of
Culturology

Russia is the Motherland of Elephants: Metamorphosis of an International Joke

Dushenko K.V.

Abstract

Russian idiom «Russia is the Motherland of Elephants» goes back to the Soviet joke of the late 1940 s. This joke in turn was a remake of a widely known international joke that arose during the World War I and became the source of the Polish idiom «The Elephant and the Polish Question».

Keywords

phraseological units; political jokes; the struggle for priority; national psychology.

DOI: 10.31249/hoc/2019.04.08

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