Perets'

Perets' (, , ) is a Ukrainian satirical and humorous illustrated magazine. Together with the Moscow Krokodil (circulation 5 million copies in 1986), Perets' (circulation 3.3 million copies in 1986) was one of the two most popular comedy magazines in the USSR. Since December 2019, only the online version of the magazine has been available.

==History== === Chervonyi Perets' === thumb|Cover of Red Pepper No. 13, 1930 The magazine was founded in the then capital of the Ukrainian SSR, Kharkiv, as Chervonyi Perets' () in 1927. It moved to Kyiv in 1941. Literary critics associate the development of satire and humor in the first years after 1917 with two factors: the artistic creativity of the masses, called by the revolution to active social construction, and the satirical, mostly political and agitation speeches of Mayakovsky and Demyan Bedny. Ukrainian humor was evaluated as a motivating example. Satirical poems, humoresque, and fables directed against the White Guard and the foreign counterrevolution were published in the pages of the Red Army and civilian newspapers. At the same time, satirical publications imbued with anti-Bolshevik and anti-interventionist pathos appeared in the press of the opposite camp, testifying to the hopes of the part of the masses that associated the social liberation and national revival of Ukraine with the building of an independent Ukraine. In the science of literature, this array of satire and humor, except for a few studies, was mostly not taken into account by researchers and not studied.