In 1936, the Associated Press reported: Stalin died. Soon, through the newspaper Pravda, the "dead man" himself answered. On the news of his own death, he wrote: "Gracious sovereign! As far as I know from reports of the foreign press, I have long left this sinful world and moved to the next world. Since the reports of the foreign press cannot be treated with confidence, if you do not want to be deleted from the list of civilized people, then I ask you to believe these reports and not disturb my peace in the silence of the other world. With respect to I. Stalin." But "dear comrade leader" knew how to joke not only so "classically"; often the leader's humor was sarcastic, cynical, ruthless, or even vulgar. The great leader was great in everything: his humor - collected in one book almost in full! - reveals new, unfamiliar facets of this large-scale Personality.