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From: tomas@inmic.se (Tomas Lundstrom)
I just got hold of a bunch of Eastern Europe jokes. For a while (i.e
last year) it looked like these kind of jokes (mostly about the
regime, KGB, the system etc...) were going out of date, but thanks (?)
to the recent development in the USSR, they are quite fashionable
again:
- What can you get for a Dollar in Moscow ?
- five years.
- Intourist (USSR travel agency) advertisement:
"Visit USSR before they visit you"
- An elder estonian walks the streets of Tallinn when he sees a big
crowd. It appears that a roof brick has fallen down and killed a man.
The estonian sighs:
- Woe, woe... we are so few estonians and now it's one less...
- But sir, it was actually a russian ! says a spectator.
- Damn it ! There are so many russians here in Estonia nowadays that there
isn't even room for a brick to fall down !
The contest "Best political joke in the USSR" has been held.
The winner, a factory worker from Minsk, got 25 years.
The Czechoslovakian proof that the earth is round:
1945 the fascists were kicked out to the west.
1968 they came back from the east.
A jew wants to leave the USSR. The clerk asks:
- Why do you want to leave ?
- I have two reasons. I'm afraid that if the Communism system is overthrown,
there will be anti-semitism again...
- But our system is so strong it'll never be overthrown !, says the clerk.
- That's my second reason ...
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phone jokes from Russia:
Dial a number. "Hello, this is your local telephone station speaking. We
are sorry to tell you but we are having a terrible fire here at the
station. The fire cannot be controlled, it is spreading over telephone
cables and will reach your house in 5 minutes. So, if you don't want to
burn down your house, hurry up and take your
telephone receiver and throw it into a bucket of cold water!"
Sometimes it works, and people do throw their receivers into water. It is
especially amusing to play this joke on the people whom you intend to visit
later in the day. That way you can come and inspect the damage.
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When leaving the Soviet Union, emmigrants must go through a very extensive
search of all of their belongings. What is or is not allowed depends on the
inspector's mood, and can vary from foreign rugs to make up, to foods
that require cooking, such as rice (I am not kidding here).
Some things are of course not allowed to
be taken along, no matter how nice or easy to bribe the inspector is.
One is absolutely not allowed to take money over some almost nonexistant
amount, or jewlery beyong a few items. That of course does not mean that
people do not try to smuggle things.
The customs check involves a strip search, and the inspector is
free to dig through all of one's baggage. So one man tried to smuggle out
diamonds by hiding them in the heels of his shoes. Then, at the last
minute, he got scared, (people have been denied permission to leave for
hiding things, and anything which is found is confiscated and kept by the
inspector or the state), and switched shoes with his brother,
who was staying behind,
and had come along to say goodbye. The inspector turned out to be a really
tough one, and cut up the man's shoes, looking for hidden money/jewlery/etc.
Well, now the guy has no shoes, and can't very well travel all the way
to Austria (first stop outside USSR) without shoes. So he asks his
brother to give him "his" shoes .... the ones with the diamonds.
The man, and the shoes, and the diamonds, are now safely in the U.S.
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