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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!"

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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!

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