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CIA Declassified Coldwar Russian Jokes [pdf]

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Post by waqf »

grkvlt wrote: post #167
Noseshine wrote: post #122

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Unless you refer to old(er) working class women with a hard life I don't see how any reasonable person can think that's even remotely a basis for a joke, given how much more beautiful Russian women look on average. Just walk around Russian cities. Having lived in the US for a decade and having been to Russia and Ukraine several times, sometimes for months living in a rented apartment, I know which country I'd choose…

It always intrigues me how people manage to persuade themselves, or get the impression, that country X or city Y has more attractive women than anywhere else. I guess it's a 'Grass is always greener...' effect?

It's nontrivial to measure definitively, due not only to subjectivity but to various selection bias problems; but why do you think it could not be true?

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Post by RcouF1uZ4gsC »

kamyarg wrote: post #94

Here is my favorite one: The KGB, the FBI and the CIA are all trying to prove that they are the best at catching criminals. The Secretary General of the UN decides to give them a test. He releases a rabbit into a forest and each of them has to catch it. The CIA goes in. They place animal informants throughout the forest. They question all plant and mineral witnesses. After three months of extensive investigations the…

I heard the same joke before, but instead of the KGB, it was the LAPD.

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googletazer wrote: post #216
Noseshine wrote: post #122

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Unless you refer to old(er) working class women with a hard life I don't see how any reasonable person can think that's even remotely a basis for a joke, given how much more beautiful Russian women look on average. Just walk around Russian cities. Having lived in the US for a decade and having been to Russia and Ukraine several times, sometimes for months living in a rented apartment, I know which country I'd choose…

PC groupthink downvoted you, have a +1 from me.

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Re: CIA Declassified Coldwar Russian Jokes [pdf]

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Post by kafkaesq »

mc32 wrote: post #67
kafkaesq wrote: post #30

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You know, if you were actually living through that era his sense of "humor" (combined with the suspicion, then widely assumed among leftist, now since medically substantiated) that he was most likely suffering from some form of early-onset dementia -- well, it got old real fast: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_begin_bombing_in_five_minut...

It's quite possible he said Russia rather than Soviet Union in order to make it clear it was a joke.

The point is that as the leader of a nuclear power one isn't suppose to joke about certain things -- particularly not a the expense of rival powers one deeply anguished relations with (and which one also happens to have come close to full-on doomsday confrontations with, in the not-so-distant past).

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Post by kafkaesq »

vidarh wrote: post #69
kafkaesq wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You know, if you were actually living through that era his sense of "humor" (combined with the suspicion, then widely assumed among leftist, now since medically substantiated) that he was most likely suffering from some form of early-onset dementia -- well, it got old real fast: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_begin_bombing_in_five_minut...

"How Close Did Lesley Stahl Come to Reporting Reagan Had Alzheimer's While in Office? Very Close." [1] is one terrifying account of just how far gone he might have been even that early. In 1987, when Howard Baker became White House Chief of Staff he was advised to be prepared to invoke the 25th amendment. According to PBS [2]: > What Baker's transition team was told by Donald Regan's staff that weekend shocked them.…

Looks like she missed the story of her career. In addition to a chance at saving us all from nuclear annihilation (had things gone differently, and certain neurons misfired in his brain at the wrong time).

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Post by ommunist »

lisivka wrote: post #213
ommunist wrote: post #179

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This is classy "foreign design", something to counter with a good internally produced one.

Moscow was supplied much often and better than rest of the towns around Moscow, and so forth. It was common practice to ride to Moscow to buy something that is not available locally. Moscow was number 1 in supply line, Moscow region and capital cities of other republics was number 2, European cities are number 3, rest was number 4 or (in practice) even lower, so it was expected that someone in Siberia, far far away f…

Dear, I am married to a girl from Omsk, and my son was born there. I know very well, that muscovites never had a glimpse of riches taiga and rivers provides to those living in Siberia. Good quality products were always abundant as the Sun there. You just had to know the right people.

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Post by zhengyi13 »

lb1lf wrote: post #131

Three men meet in a GULag camp, and conversation turns to why they are there. "I got twelve years hard labour for speaking out against Gennady Karasov", says the first. "That's funny, I got twelve years hard labour for supporting Gennady Karasov!" says the second. Attention turns to the last man. "I am Gennady Karasov". ----- Three men have to share a hotel room in Chelyabinsk during a congress. Naturally, in the eve…

I was told the first joke in China, in Chinese, from a local, back in 96; the punchline there was for Deng, i.e. "I supported Deng Xiaoping! I opposed Deng! I am Deng...".
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