terrible jokes.
CIA Declassified Coldwar Russian Jokes [pdf]
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#262terrible jokes all of them
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#263http://redprimer.com/
The red primer for children and diplomats is a good example of this sort of humor in visual form.
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#264Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't get this one?
I assume the implication is that the only way to obtain fresh toilet paper was to "recycle" it.
But comrade, remember - the eastern block had two layered toilet paper first, because one copy of every shit has too reach Moscow.
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#265Earlier quoted context omitted.
> He was a good actor. At least he wasn't a megalomaniac.
> At least he wasn't a megalomaniac. Well, most Donald Trump supporters would take offense upon hearing how you characterize their idol. But since most of them are unlikely to be lurking round these parts, I guess that's okay.
Even some of us who aren't Trump supporters are getting tired of the incessant Trump-bashing.
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#266Earlier quoted context omitted.
> At least he wasn't a megalomaniac. Well, most Donald Trump supporters would take offense upon hearing how you characterize their idol. But since most of them are unlikely to be lurking round these parts, I guess that's okay.
Even some of us who aren't Trump supporters are getting tired of the incessant Trump-bashing.
Some of us Trump unsupporters grew up under actual totalitarian regimes and are extremely sensitive to certain types of behavior at the top of government. Canaries in a coal mine, if you will.
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#267Earlier quoted context omitted.
Even some of us who aren't Trump supporters are getting tired of the incessant Trump-bashing.
Some of us Trump unsupporters grew up under actual totalitarian regimes and are extremely sensitive to certain types of behavior at the top of government. Canaries in a coal mine, if you will.
Funnily enough I never assigned "megalomaniac" to a certain name; it appears it was just assumed I was talking about Trump.
That being what it is, seeing it as an outsider to the US, the glove certainly appears to fit. If good people can't stand up to this sort of behaviour, and call it for what it is, I am rather worried.
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#268I like this one: Russian engineer got fed up of having all responsibility and low salary, so he moves to another city and pretends to be an ordinary worker, same salary and peace of mind. However, not long after communist party sends him to evening classes. On his first day there at maths class he was asked about circle circumference formula, but for some reason he could not remember it off hand, so he goes on blackb…
Reminds me of one a professor told in class. Lemme see if I can do it justice; it was 15 years ago.
A math professor's friend is visiting from out of town, and they go out to dinner. The professor says that in this town, everyone has a college degree and knows calculus. He makes a bet with his friend that the waitress can solve an integral. But there's no way waitstaff know calculus, so he cheats: he excuses himself to go to the bathroom, finds the waitress, and tells her that when he asks her a question, she should answer "x^2 / 2". Then he goes back to the table. When the waitress checks on them, he asks her "what's the integral of x"? She answers "x^2 / 2 plus an arbitrary constant".
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#269Earlier quoted context omitted.
Indeed. Russia has one of the lowest male-to-female ratios in the world: 0.86 males per each female. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_sex_ratio I understand where that comes from: it's a stereotypical generalisation, but Russian middle-aged men drink themselves to death. Large areas of Russian countryside operate on granny energy only. So, the "supply" of women exceeds "demand" in Russia. What puzzl…
Don't Finland share the same drinking culture and should thus have similar numbers?
Not quite. There is some culture of binge drinking and alcohol-related deaths, but drinking in Finland is more evenly distributed between men and women, and life expectancy of men is 15 years higher than Russia, on the average. (In women, the difference is just 6 years.)
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#270This one is about propaganda:
Pravda's (the main press organ of the USSR) headline:
"The Great Republic of the Soviet Union has scored 2nd in an international competition of car-building nations. Just right behind the USA."
The rest of the message was withheld: There were only two nations taking part in that competition.