For whatever reason, this comes to mind - A judge meets a colleague in the corridor who's chuckling and wiping tears from his eyes, saying "Ah, I just heard th

For whatever reason, this comes to mind - A judge meets a colleague in the corridor who's chuckling and wiping tears from his eyes, saying "Ah, I just heard the best joke of my life!" - "So tell me?" - "I can't, I just assigned 20 years of hard labor for it.." But the Soviet economic sytem was one where you could go to a shop and ask "You don't have sausage, I suppose?" and they would answer "No! Here we don't have milk, the shop on the other side of the road doesn't have sausage!"