Document no. 1C -- Click for larger image

 

FROM DIKOBRAZ NO. 25 -- 20 JUNE 1968

In the upper left panel, a cleaning woman tells one of the tenants in her apartment building: "I'm sorry, Professor, for writing that evaluation of you once -- I had to do it." The evaluation in question would have been a "reference letter" to the authorities about the professor's political unreliability.

In the panel below that, a speaker's opening words reflect the loosening of ideological constraints and the confusion that sometimes resulted: "Comrades, citizens, ladies and gentlemen, sisters and brothers, comrade conservatives..."

In the lower right, a man shouts "Hello" and his echo replies: "Don't hang up. Your call will be answered in the order it was received!"