Old Soviet Jokes
What does two times two make? Whatever the Party says.
A KGB interrogator asks a suspect: 'Which of my eyes is artificial? If you guess right I'll let you go.' 'The left one,' replies the suspect. 'How did you guess?' marvels the interrogator. 'It has a kindly look about it.'
How do you relate to the Soviet government? Like a wife: part habit, part fear and wish to God I had a different one.
Two Muscovites meet. 'How's life?' 'Fantastic.' 'Do you read the papers?' 'Of course! How else would I know?'
Yesterday in Moscow an attempt was made on Comrade Brezhnev's life by an unidentified assailant. The bullet penetrated the bulletproof car window, hit Comrade Brezhnev on the forehead, ricocheted and killed the driver. (Tass communique)
What sort of a job should you take, so as never to be unemployed? Climb up on the Kremlin wall and watch for the approach of Communism.
How's life? Like a bus trip, one's driving and the rest are shaking.
How can you ensure that your refrigerator is always full of food? Plug it into Radio Moscow.
Brezhnev had a nightmare: a Czech was sitting in Red Square eating matzos â with chopsticks.
A man ran through the streets of Moscow shouting: 'Krushchev is a swine!' He was seized and given twenty one years: one year for defamation, and twenty years for leaking state secrets.
