That's how you start to examine the family portraits and believe in the transmigration of souls. Okay, not family portraits, and satirical journal "Krokodil", but still believe that nothing really changes in our lives...
"Crocodile" — Soviet and Russian satirical magazine. The symbol of the publication is the pattern: red crocodile with a pitchfork. The magazine was published three times in a month. Circulation reached 6.5 million copies.
27 Aug 1922 is the next release of the application (No. 13) members "Working papers" received the first issue of "Crocodile"
The new magazine was distinguished from its predecessor not only in name.
In the first room in the programmatic poem of Demyan Bedny "Red Krokodil — the bravest of the brave! — crocodile vs black and white" clearly articulates the task of the issue:
The magazine could boast of the intransigence of the disadvantages, merciless criticism of specific perpetrators — were branded with the shame of crooks and bunglers, idlers and shirkers, talkers and sycophants, drunks, hooligans, idlers, swindlers.
Almost 100 years have passed and Damascus is still on everyone's lips