Word: zadornov
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...comic could when, in the late 1970s, he publicly poked fun at Leonid Brezhnev's bushy eyebrows. A year before Gorbachev came to power a Moscow comedian was banned from television for a year for making fun of an unnamed KGB general. But when Mikhail Zadornov, a Leningrad satirist and television personality, submitted his story to Theater, the editors apparently thought the mock letter was suitable to print...
Adopting the voice of a resident of a dingy town that Gorbachev supposedly had visited, Zadornov informs the Soviet leader how the place had been hastily spruced up by Communist officials before his arrival: "In those three days they managed to do more for our city than they had during all the years of Soviet power...
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