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# This Is Very Funny
- URL: https://theparnassian.com/en/eto-ochen-smeshno/
- Published: 2026-02-24T16:04:13.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-01T05:26:52.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: Archive, Books, People, Humour

From the reminiscences of Nadezhda Konstantinovna Krupskaya about Vladimir Ilyich Lenin.

> I remember how we once drove up to a bridge of decidedly doubtful sturdiness. Vladimir Ilyich asked a peasant standing beside it whether a motor car could cross. The peasant shook his head and said with a little smirk: “I couldn't say, I'm sure. It is a Soviet bridge, after all, begging your pardon for the expression.” Ilyich afterwards repeated the peasant's words more than once, laughing...