Сonstantly living with stress and depression can be harmful to anybody, especially to Ukrainians who have been fighting the enemy for five months already. This is when humor has a say. 1/8
Humor can serve as a survival tactic: a means of resistance, a form of sociopolitical expression, and a method to mock geopolitical narratives, especially, enemies. Humor, in particular dark humor, can help us cope with bad situations. 2/8
In the 21 century memes, TikTok and tweets replaced old caricatures, anecdotes, trench newspapers, and front magazines. There seems to be a plethora of those appearing every minute in Ukraine. 3/8
Politicians and other influential people joined this humor race and continue creating memes if not becoming ones. 4/8 
A huge percentage of memes target at humiliating Russians. Enemies not only received tons of alternative names such as orks, russists, etc, but also are mocked for stealing washing machines when marodeuring Ukrainian houses and for being so stupid when handling the war. 5/8
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Another set of jokes includes hilarious real folk stories about absurd but heroic resistance of common Ukrainians. 7/8
Still, some topics remain taboo to be made fun of with people's clear understanding that war is a horrific phenomenon with great sorrows, deaths and tragedies. Ukrainians know the red line which will not be crossed in terms of what can be laughed at. 8/8
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