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Leonid R.
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What are some of the best Soviet jokes?
Not the best, but a good “historical” joke. Maybe it isn’t a Soviet, but
a German joke. I forgot when and where I heard it.
In the 80s, the Soviets captured a plane with Ronald Reagan and Helmut
Kohl. After a short trial, the Soviets decide on the death penalty for
both, but allow them to choose how to die. An electric chair or a
hanging are the options. Reagan decided to go first and as a civilized
person ask for the electric chair. An executioner pulls a lever, but surprise, surprise the chair isn’t working. “By an old Russian tradition,” announces an executioner, “We do not kill a person twice.
You are free to go.” On his way out, Reagan whispers to Kohl, “Chair is broken.”
On his way in Kohl tells to an executioner, “I heard your electric chair
is broken, I am choosing the hanging.”
Jim Drew
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Reagan was a consummate jokester. He and his aides could be found
telling jokes into the night quite often.
Here is my favorite that Reagan told, exemplifying the Soviet planned
economy.
A man went into a Soviet car dealership to purchase a Lada. As part of
the procedure, he went from bureaucrat to bureaucrat, making sure the
man had the money and his paperwork was correctly filled out. He reached
the last station. The person behind the desk stamped his paperwork, and
said, “Congratulations, Comrade! Your paperwork is complete. Come back
in seven years to pick up your new car.” The man replied, “Which day of
the week?” The bureaucrat snaped back at him, “You have to wait seven
years and you want to know what day of the week??!!” “Yes”, the man
said. “The plumber is coming on Tuesday”.
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Reminds me of socialist India in the 80s. We had to wait 2 years for a
landline phone and we were the among the fortunate to get it that fast!
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Gerardo Aguirre
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The Soviet Head Commissar called on his old buddy on a Central Asian
farming collective. “Comrade! Tell me about your potato crop!”
“Ah, yes, Comrade Commissar, we have a wonderful potato crop, in fact if
you piled up all our potatoes, they would touch God’s feet,” said the collective head.
“You know there is no God, comrade?” the Head Commissar remonstrated.
“There are no potatoes either, Comrade Commissar!”
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