Nathan over at The Argus posted this joke, which both me and the future Mrs. got a kick out of:
An official asks an Uzbek collective farm boss about the year’s cotton harvest:
Official: “Comrade, how is this year’s harvest?”
Farmer: “The cotton piles up above the ankles of Allah!”
Official: “But comrade, there is no God in the Soviet Union!”
Farmer: “That’s good, because there’s no cotton either!”
Ahh… Eastern Bloc humor at its finest.
UPDATE: Nathan also skewers the Russian UN Ambassador for daring to compare the US in Iraq to the Soviet experience in Afghanistan:
Yes, it’s exactly the same! The US went in to prop up a client state along it’s southern border in the name of brotherhood (using the “Friendship Bridge” as the major border crossing) and then faced an enormous domestic insurgency that is supplied with high-tech weaponry and sophisticated guerilla warfare tactics from a powerful and wealthy democracy. Mounting casualties have since resulted in a massive draft, especially among the non-WASP 48% of the population that is spread along America’s border republics.
Wait, crap, I got absolutely all of that wrong!
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Thought I would add this one (Excuse the date refences, since this joke assumes the Soviet Union still exists).
Ivan moves into a new home just outside of Moscow. He notices the electricty is not on, and calls up the service.
“Comrade, my electricty is not working at my house.”
“We will send somebody right out comrade”
Being a smart Soviet, Ivan judiciously asks “When comrade is ’soon’”.
“Well, let me check the work list….hmm….I think we can have somebody out there 3pm, Thursday, March 30, 2005″
Unfazed Ivan says, “I cant have anybody come out then, I am busy.”
“What possibly could you have to do at 3pm three years, 5 months, and 13 days from now?”
“That is when the gas man is comming to turn on my gas”