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A new arrival to Gulag is asked: "What were you given 10 years for?" – "For nothing!" – "Don't lie to us here, now! Everybody knows 'for nothing' is 3 years."

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"I am American, I live in a free country: I can go to a main square and call president (Reagan/Nixon/whatever) an idiot and nothing will happen to me!" - "Well, I am Soviet citizen, I also live in a free country: I can go to a main square and call president (Reagan/Nixon/whatever) an idiot and nothing will happen to me!"

I loved when Reagan told Soviet jokes, that was one of them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mN3z3eSVG7A

The YT comment section actually has a few gems too.

I always get that video recommended underneath footage of atomic bombs going off or movies like threads.

Fitting, because the Reagan administration didn't realize at the time that they were accidently convincing the increasingly old men leading the USSR that the US was preparing a first strike on the evil empire.

Heh. The one where he has two Russians arguing and one asked whether the SU was at the pinnacle of communism and his buddy’s answer was hell no, things are gonna get a lot worse!

I literally laughed out loud when I hit that line in Gulag Archipelago. Solzhenitsyn was brilliant.

How does every Russian joke begin? By looking over your shoulder.

Putin sitting alone in some room. On the door: (Knock knock) Putin: "Who's there?" From outside: "Kyiv" Putin: "I don't get it." From outside: "That's right. You won't."

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