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Like the joke about Stalin's underling muttering under his breath about "that bastard with the moustache", I wouldn't be surprised if either (a) the original censors had said "anti Austria-Hungary good" without giving a moment's thought as to how well the satire fit their own system, or (b) a particularly bright censor (or set of censors) realised they could always fall back on (a) for plausible deniability. Compare https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39697389 (or https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/ru/b/ba/Sharik_Figvam... ?)


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