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In Soviet Russia, your mail reads the KGB.
by dancryer 13y ago
In Soviet Russia, your mail reads the KGB.
- Jgrubb 13y agoReddit in-jokes will get you downvoted here, just a heads up.
- shitmaggot 13y agoShut the fuck up.
- stcredzero 13y agoIt's a Slashdot in-joke, actually.
- eli 13y agoIt's actually a Yakov Smirnoff joke, but either way it doesn't really advance the conversation very much.
- Samuel_Michon 13y agoYup, the original was: “In America, you can always find a party. In Soviet Russia, Party always finds you!” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakov_Smirnoff#Russian_reversal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakov_Smirnoff#Russian_reversa...
- cema 13y agoI have always thought it was all his pun on: "Under capitalism, a man exploits a man. Under socialism, it's the other way around!" But I may have been mistaken.
- Samuel_Michon 13y agoThat’s a real possibility, as that Russian (or Polish, depending on who you ask) joke had been making the rounds for almost 30 years when Smirnoff moved to the US in 1977. http://www.barrypopik.com/index.php/new_york_city/entry/under_capitalism_man_exploits_man_under_communism_it_is_the_other_way_aroun/ http://www.barrypopik.com/index.php/new_york_city/entry/unde...
- huhtenberg 13y agoIt's a Slashdot cliche joke to be precise.
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