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These jokes aren't bad. What is the story? Are these genuine Russian jokes, or jokes inserted there by the CIA?
The question is why jokes were classified!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwbnvkMRPKM&feature=youtu.be...
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Remembered another I learned from a Russian. A man and his wife live in Siberia. Every day she nags him about his drinking and his terrible friends and how he never helps her around the house. It always ends with her yelling at him to go out and bring in some wood for the stove. One day after the usual fight, the man gets to the woodpile and just keeps walking. Twenty years later, he returns. He walks into the kitche…
If you've seen Russian wives you now this is not a joke (ducks).
In an old joke from the defunct German Democratic Republic, a German worker gets a job in Siberia; aware of how all mail will be read by censors, he tells his friends: “Let’s establish a code: if a letter you will get from me is written in ordinary blue ink, it is true; if it is written in red ink, it is false.” After a month, his friends get the first letter, written in blue ink: “Everything is wonderful here: stores are full, food is abundant, apartments are large and properly heated, movie theaters show films from the West, there are many beautiful girls ready for an affair—the only thing you can't get is red ink.”
However, the "war of jokes" was integral part of the Cold War and do not underestimate one. There is terrific Russian novel about this battle, it took off in the late 60-ies.
Very important to know that a class of jokes about Russian Civil War heroes, Petyka and Vassily Ivanovich Chapaev was a viral campaign set off by the KGB to combat US/British jokes designed for Russians.
I like this one. "Can you drink a glass of vodka, Vassily Ivanovich?", asks Petyka. "Sure thing", boss answers. "How about two?" "No problem!" "And how about a full bucket of vodka?" "You know, it is only Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, who is capable to drink the full bucket of vodka!"
“Why have you not put on your dress?”
“But darling, I don’t have any dresses good enough for the ballet.” replies his wife.
“Nonsense” the Mayor declares, opening the cupboard.
“There’s this blue dress, this green dress, hello comrade Dzerzhinsky, and this lovely white dress.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_Dzerzhinsky#Director_of_...
These jokes aren't bad. What is the story? Are these genuine Russian jokes, or jokes inserted there by the CIA?
The question is why jokes were classified!
In other words, they were classified because they were in use by the CIA not due to being somehow special.
Makes me wonder, what jokes is the CIA not declassifying? Yes, this is a call for more Russian jokes.
These jokes aren't bad. What is the story? Are these genuine Russian jokes, or jokes inserted there by the CIA?
Tough to say for certain, but probably real. Russian humor is... special.