Upon remarks received re the below from kind Russian/American Facebook friends, I stand corrected. Maybe it's not humor after all ... but the "real thing." If
indeed so, please let me know. Best, John
Original (naive) entry:
Great, underappreciated by the "West" Russian humor in these tragic times. Would not the Ukrainian-born Gogol, one of the masters of the literature from an important part of the world so full of imagination, talent, and irony, have (as they say today) "gotten a kick" out of this video (so as not, perhaps, to shed tears on the sorry state of Russian/Ukrainian/American/EU relations)?
Video at