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Chocolate cathedrals and the art of chekist humor

By Tom Rogan
Published January 2, 2019 12:30pm ET
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Chocolate cathedrals and the art of chekist humor
Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a State Council meeting on the development of volunteering and socially oriented NGOs, at the Moscow's Kremlin, Russia, Thursday, Dec. 27, 2018. | (Alexei Druzhinin, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Last Thursday, the Kremlin’s primary propaganda news outlet, RT, sent out a gift to critics of President Vladimir Putin — a chocolate replica of Salisbury Cathedral. It is a gift with meaning — a crystallized (or chocolate-ized) example of chekist humor. That is to say, Russian intelligence gallows humor.

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