Satire may not win wars but it can boost morale.
— was born in Odessa. He has fond memories of Humorina, the city’s immensely popular holiday of humor on April 1. Kaminsky, who now lives in the United States, explains that Humorina is adjacent to our April Fools’ Day, but different. In Odessa “it is a day of kind humor,” he tells me. “When I was growing up, the slogan for it used to be ‘Humor and kindness will save the world.’ ”
Kaminsky was born just a few years before Leonid Brezhnev died, and he can remember his parents reciting funny stories to each other in the old Soviet Union. “There was a kind of resistance in that,” he says. “It was a step outside of the normative — a language two humans spoke to each other, a joke being the bit of free space, a gulp of air, a laugh.
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