What are these jokes meant to be saying about Soviet russia ?

Jul 05, 2008 by Jim E | Posted in Russia

Jokes invented by Yakov Smirnoff, involving the comparisons of things in the Collaborative States and the Soviet Union.
"In America, you drive car. In Soviet Russia, car drives you!"

"In America, you go to parties. In Soviet Russia, fete goes to you!"

"In America, you watch television. In Soviet Russia, television watches you!"

"In America, you describe dictionary. In Soviet Russia, dictionary defines you!"

"In America, you shoot gun. In Soviet Russia, gun shoots you!"

Being Russian myself i can view 3 of these jokes, to another 2 i have suggestions

"In America, you go to parties. In Soviet Russia, party goes to you!" Function in Soviet Russia is the Communist Party and it had a total control over live of soviet people. For example if a wife gets to discern her husband is cheating on her in Soviet Russia she could go to the major party member at his work and complain. That party memner then would talk to her cover up and say that he must stay in the family and stop cheating because family is the "cell of the society" and if leaves his kinsfolk for another woman he could be excluded from the Communist party.

"In America, you watch television. In Soviet Russia, television watches you!" Connected to the security that total control of the government over people stretches to their personal life, even at home they can't get rid of that and even tv watches what they're doing and what they're talking about.

"In America, you upon dictionary. In Soviet Russia, dictionary defines you!" The party and the government defines who are you and how you should behave, you're not free to settle on yourself (because ot total control)

"In America, you shoot gun. In Soviet Russia, gun shoots you!" - may be remembering of the times when a man could be put in send up the river or be shot (by Stalin's secret orders) because they were "enemies" of Soviet Russia or government, speaking about things they were not satisfied about, crytising the way supervision exercise, making jokes about party leaders etc.

"In America, you drive car. In Soviet Russia, car drives you!" - may be also remembering the times when for such "enemies" of Soviet Russia a car secretly came in the central of the night and took all family members and nobody saw them after that (they were put in jails or shot).

Seriously who will watch the Politicians now the fourth estate has proved its incompetence?

Jan 19, 2009 by RIP USA | Posted in Politics

even George Will, Kristol, Krauthammer,have become part of the American type of soviet news agency tas.
If not for Limbaugh, Savage, Coulter and Mike Reagan we would have not watch dogs at all.

Quite soon anybody who has an opinion differing from the new administration will probably end up locked up or punished in one form or another. I have never seen people behave a man more like a king in all of my life than this election. It is scary when the voices of question and dissent are silenced.

NEW Screening: How the Beatles Rocked the Kremlin

From the Frontline Association
NEW Screening: How the Beatles Rocked the Kremlin
August 10, 2009 7:00 PM
Followed by a Q&A with Director Leslie WoodheadFrom the inception, the Soviet leadership had feared the threat of kids with guitars. In the early 60s, Nikita Kruschev declared that the electric guitar was “an opponent of the Soviet people”

The Soviet authorities were determined to keep those songs from polluting their youth. Police grabbed kids on the street and chopped their mane

Art Troitsky, Russia’s leading Rock writer tells us `The Beatles and their songs have more or less melted the hearts and brains of millions of Russian boyish people – and prepared them for what happened much later. There is no other Western phenomenon which had such a huge impact on the internal affairs of the Soviet Bloc. The thing was that the Soviet regime couldn’t offer the kids anything. The Beatles clicked in the hearts of my generation.'

The film is a exclusive journey through Russia by Leslie Woodhead, telling the story of a secret revolution which led to the fall of communism.

The pic begins where Woodhead first met up with the Beatles in 1962. As a young TV researcher, he worked on a brief black and white coat shot in the Cavern Club in Liverpool before the world had heard of the Beatles.

25 years later, when Woodhead began to style films in Russia, he became aware of how the Beatles legend had soaked into the lives of a generation of kids. He even met some who had seen that cheap film in the Cavern Club long ago. Now he has been back in Russia to talk to some of the Beatles generation, and to hear their stories about how the Fab Four changed their lives - and how they made the the rebellion which transformed their country into ‘Beatlestan.’

We travel through Moscow, and St Petersburg and out to the former republics, Ukraine and Belarus, to fitting Beatles’ fans, musicians, people whose...

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