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This reminds me of a Soviet joke: Q. What is the most valuable real estate in the USSR? A. It's the state border. If you owned just a meter of it you could have
by pandaman 11y ago
This reminds me of a Soviet joke:
Q. What is the most valuable real estate in the USSR?
A. It's the state border. If you owned just a meter of it you could have made billions by letting people out.
- ktRolster 11y agoDid people actually tell that joke in the USSR?
- pandaman 11y agoI rephrased the one I've heard due to obscure cultural references which even Russians might not understand if they are not old enough. The original is "Кооператив "СВОБОДА" возьмет в аренду 1м государственной границы"
- ktRolster 11y agoThat must have been a Brezhnev era joke because I can't imagine people getting away with it under Stalin
- pandaman 11y agoGorbachev's. I am not that old to remember Stalin.
- a3n 11y agoSome would have been punished, and some would have gotten away with it. We use humor to cope. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_political_jokes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_political_jokes There was an article awhile back, can't recall in detail, about how humor circulated in the Soviet Union.