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Arvo Krikmann
phone and let’s pretend we’re moving!” After Gorbachev came to power another
line was added, in which he suggests: “Comrades, let’s get out and push.”
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M. McAuley, Soviet Politics, 1917–1991 >
Dr. Paul Paul Vyšný, e Soviet Joke Book
http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~pv/courses/sovrus/jokes.html
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Brezhnev, like Stalin, ended up dying twice: first in body & soul, and then in public
opinion a few years later. Nowadays he and his friends, called collectively “the
Dnepropetrovsk Mafia”, are accused of incompetence and corruption.
One joke compares the administrations of Stalin, Khrushchev and Brezhnev to
the operation of a train. Stalin shot the engineer and sent the conductor to the
Gulag; Khrushchev rehabilitated the engineer and released the conductor; Brezhnev
let the train go off the tracks and told the passengers to pretend it was still
moving!
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Charles Kimball, A History of Russia. Chapter 3: Soviet Russia 1917 to 1985
http://xenohistorian.faithweb.com/russia/ru03s.html
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Remember the 1980s joke of Stalin, Lenin and Gorbachev travelling together? One
hour after the train came to an unscheduled halt in the Russian countryside, the
leaders agreed that something should be done. Stalin barked: “Shoot the driver.”
Lenin reposed faith in the great force of mass-class struggle to propel the train
forward. Gorbachev quietly suggested: “Roll down the windows, and let us imagine
that we are moving ahead.”
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Ashok R Chandran, Where is Kerala Reform Express headed?
Viewpoint, e New Indian Express (Kerala) [26.01.2002]
http://ashokrchandran.tripod.com/articles/reformexpress.html
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See the awesome Stalin by Edvard Radzinskii for some old time Soviet jokes. One that
pops to mind is –
Stalin, Khrushchev and Brezhnev are all on a train barreling across Siberia. Suddenly
the train stops. e three leaders begin discussing how to get the train rolling again.
Stalin suggests that they should have the conductor and the crew shot. Khrushchev
counters that they should introduce economic reforms that will motivate the crew to
get the train moving again. After a moment of silence, Brezhnev says: “Why don’t we
just close the blinds and pretend the train is moving?”
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David Sedaris, Me talk pretty one day
http://www.ruthlessreviews.com/metalkprettyoneday.html
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