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Laughing at the Contradictions of Socialism in America [Old Soviet-era jokes work now in the U.S.]
pajamasmedia.com ^ | March 5, 2009 | Oleg Atbashian

Posted on 03/05/2009 5:42:04 AM PST by Tolik

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1 posted on 03/05/2009 5:42:05 AM PST by Tolik
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To: Lando Lincoln; neverdem; quidnunc; .cnI redruM; Valin; King Prout; SJackson; dennisw; ...

Nailed It!

 

Read, Comrades, and laugh,

while you still can

 


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2 posted on 03/05/2009 5:46:45 AM PST by Tolik
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To: Tolik

Too close to the truth for me this morning..............


3 posted on 03/05/2009 5:47:10 AM PST by PeterPrinciple ( Seeking the truth here folks.)
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To: Tolik

Good article! My favorite Communist related joke:

How do you double the value of a Trabant (insert Prius nowadays)?

Fill the gas tank.


4 posted on 03/05/2009 5:47:36 AM PST by Reaganesque
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To: Reaganesque

**Good article! My favorite Communist related joke:**

told to me by a Russian who lived under old USSR

“We Pretend to WORK... and they PRETEND to PAY us!”

Give NOBAMA another 6 months.


5 posted on 03/05/2009 5:50:07 AM PST by gwilhelm56 (WE THE PEOPLE Demand TALK RADIO to be our 1st Amendment MEDIA WATCHDOG!!!)
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To: Tolik

One of my old favorite Russian jokes came from when Gorbachev was in power, and the USSR experienced a serious vodka shortage.

2 guys hear the State liquor store is getting a supply of vodka, they go and run to get in the endless line.

One guy says “ I can’t stand these lines anymore-I am going to go kill Gorbachev!”

His friend says - “you can’t do that, he is protected by KGB, at best you will go to Gulag, or you might get shot!”

Nonetheless, his friend leaves. He figures he will never see him again.

About two hours later, his friend comes back to the line- “well, did you kill Gorbachev?” he asks him.

No, his buddy replys - “that line was longer than this one!”


6 posted on 03/05/2009 5:51:05 AM PST by pineybill (`)
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To: Tolik

One of my old favorite Russian jokes came from when Gorbachev was in power, and the USSR experienced a serious vodka shortage.

2 guys hear the State liquor store is getting a supply of vodka, they go and run to get in the endless line.

One guy says “ I can’t stand these lines anymore-I am going to go kill Gorbachev!”

His friend says - “you can’t do that, he is protected by KGB, at best you will go to Gulag, or you might get shot!”

Nonetheless, his friend leaves. He figures he will never see him again.

About two hours later, his friend comes back to the line- “well, did you kill Gorbachev?” he asks him.

No, his buddy replys - “that line was longer than this one!”


7 posted on 03/05/2009 5:52:07 AM PST by pineybill (`)
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To: Tolik
The poor keep getting poorer — yet they have things that people in other countries only dream about.

America - the only country where the poor are fat.

8 posted on 03/05/2009 5:52:33 AM PST by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: All
http://www.thepeoplescube.com

 


9 posted on 03/05/2009 5:52:40 AM PST by Tolik
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To: PeterPrinciple
http://www.thepeoplescube.com


 

10 posted on 03/05/2009 5:56:17 AM PST by Tolik
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To: Tolik
Yakov Smirnoff is going to have to get all new material.

My favorite Russian joke is the "suitcase nukes". They built miniature nuclear bombs that would fit in a suitcase, and planned to smuggle them into the US and plant them in strategic locations. The plan had to be abandoned when it was discovered they didn't have any suitcases.

11 posted on 03/05/2009 5:57:55 AM PST by tacticalogic ("Oh bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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To: Tolik

Brilliant column.


12 posted on 03/05/2009 5:58:41 AM PST by Gondring (Paul Revere would have been flamed as a naysayer troll and told to go back to Boston.)
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To: Tolik

Good stuff!


13 posted on 03/05/2009 6:00:15 AM PST by Canedawg (Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press.)
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To: Gondring
That side is a treasure:   http://www.thepeoplescube.com

 

 

14 posted on 03/05/2009 6:00:48 AM PST by Tolik
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To: Tolik

great article


15 posted on 03/05/2009 6:02:37 AM PST by anniegetyourgun
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To: Tolik

A man goes into a Soviet automobile dealer to buy a car. He picks out the options he wants and places the order for the car. The dealer says, “Okay, you can pick up this car in ten years.”

“Ten years? Morning or afternoon?”

“Why? What difference does that make?”

“Well, the plumber is coming in the morning.”


16 posted on 03/05/2009 6:04:27 AM PST by wolfpat (Revolt, and re-establish the Constitution as the law of the land!)
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To: Canedawg
Oleg Atbashian is brilliant

  http://www.thepeoplescube.com

 
 
 

17 posted on 03/05/2009 6:05:39 AM PST by Tolik
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To: gwilhelm56
  http://www.thepeoplescube.com

 

 

18 posted on 03/05/2009 6:07:53 AM PST by Tolik
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To: Tolik

A few of my friends have been resurrecting old “Yakov Smirnoff” jokes ... but we’re applying them to the USA rather than USSR.


19 posted on 03/05/2009 6:11:01 AM PST by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
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To: Tolik

A Russkie spots a comrade exiting a meeting at the Kremlin, and stops to chat a moment.

First Russkie: So, comrade, how do things look for the motherland?

Second Russkie: The situation is hopeless, but not yet bad.

:-/


20 posted on 03/05/2009 6:14:53 AM PST by LearsFool ("Thou shouldst not have been old, till thou hadst been wise.")
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