Soviet 1977 Krokodil magazine USSR - Russian satirical journal newspaper vintage

The Krokodil (means Crocodile) magazine is the oldest Soviet satirical magazine. It was published first as an  appendix to the newspaper "Rabochy" in Moscow from 1922 in the publishing house "Rabochaya Gazeta", and since 1932 in the publishing house "Pravda".
The satire of "Krokodil" was not limited to small everyday topics - exposures of bureaucrats, drunkards, bribe takers, hacksters, stylists, as well as criticism of incompetent middle and lower-level managers, it also reflected key issues and central events of domestic and foreign policy, ranging from denunciations of Leon Trotsky, spies and "enemies of the people" to the flagellation of West German revanchism, American militarism, and its sattelites, collonialism, NATO, and so on. Up until the beginning of Perestroika, satire maintained a rigid character with minimal exceptions.

Size is 33x26 cm.
Magazine has 15 pages.
Date is 1977.

he symbol of the publication is a drawing: a red crocodile with a pitchfork. The magazine was published three times a month. The circulation reached 6.5 million copies.