10 Magazines That Gave Birth To Controversies

# Krokodil

Krokodil was a satirical magazine published in the Soviet Union. It was founded in 1922, and named after Fyodor Dostoyevsky's satirical short story, The Crocodile

Although political satire was dangerous during much of the Soviet period, Krokodil was given considerable license to lampoon political figures and events.

Krokodil also ridiculed capitalist countries and attacked various political, ethnic and religious groups that allegedly opposed the Soviet system.

After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the magazine was discontinued. It was reinstated in 2005 in Russia, issued monthly, and printed on old Soviet-style paper.

# Private Eye

Private Eye is a fortnightly British satirical and current affairs magazine based in London, England, edited by Ian Hislop.

Private Eye has been a prominent critic of any of the sins of incompetence, inefficiency, corruption and it has established itself as a thorn in the side of the British establishment.

Private Eye also aims its criticism at journalists, newspapers and particularly prominent or interesting businesspeople.

It is the habit of the magazine to attach nicknames, usually offensive and often very crude, to these people, and often to create surreal and extensive alternate personifications of them, which usually take the form of parody newspaper articles in the second half of the magazine.

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