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an authentic joke going around Russia in the post-Stalin Soviet era
Posted to: Martín Rizzi * Mexico (3740) by Martín Rizzi * Mexico (3740), Sun, 08 Apr 2007 21:18:25 PDT
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This is an authentic joke going around Russia in the post-Stalin Soviet era.
There is this guy who has a job keeping a watch out with a big State telescope
for the advent of the classless society. Every day he kisses his wife and goes to work.
Eventually, this guy was approached by one of Truman's spies who offered
him a job at five times the salary to sit on the Statue of Liberty
and keep a sharp watch out for the next capitalist financial crisis.
The guy replied:
"I have a family. I just cant afford to give up
a permanent job, for a temporary job. Sorry"
By AJVandeAak (CCAL30) (309), Thu, 17 May 2007 15:25:16 PDT
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More jokes like that please!
topBy Jeff Mowatt (CCAL30) (877), Sat, 23 Jun 2007 09:06:09 PDT
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Premier Leonid Brezhnev was known to be fond of motoring.
As he would pass in his limousine the local citizenry would remark to each other:
"Did you recognise who that was in the car that just passed by?"
"No, but he must have been very important, Comrade Brezhnev himself was driving!"
By Jeff Mowatt (CCAL30) (877), Sat, 23 Jun 2007 09:10:39 PDT
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An Englishman, an American and a Russian were discussing their respective countries.
"Is it true that in Moscow, you have to queue for sausage?" asked the Englishman.
"What's a queue?", the American interrupted.
"What's a sausage?" the Russian replied.
By Jim Fussell (CCAL30) (1135), Mon, 25 Jun 2007 16:39:25 PDT
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Smiles :) Now Moscow is the most expensive city in the world.
Not the city is filled with Sushi bars I read . . .
. . . .what ever happened to the 10 kopek Metro ride (on the world finest and deepest subway, built by Stalin's slave laborers)?
http://money.cnn.com/2007/06/15/ pf/most_expensive_cities/?postve rsion=2007061915
By Jim Fussell (CCAL30) (1135), Tue, 24 Apr 2007 10:15:58 PDT
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Fun joke, Martin.
"We pretend to work and they pretend to pay us" is what Soviet citizens told me when I visited there in the late 1980s.
The high risks involved expressing direct opposition to the government pushed alot of creative energy into the area of humor.