Irony of Fate

I thought the first half of Irony of Fate was interesting not just from a comedy standpoint, but a cultural and political one as well. I found it intriguing at the beginning of the film how the director appeared to be making fun of Soviet leaders for building everything in the country very similar. It seems universal in its comedy by making light of drinking and being drunk. Going back to similar structures this seems culturally peculiar to the Soviet period. Same buildings, streets, and set up. Some of the humor is some that I am used to but in todays culture a lot of our humor is sexually related and so far this film has none of it.