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 Allied 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, social gathering goes to you!"
"In America, you watch television. In Soviet Russia, television watches you!"
"In America, you set down dictionary. In Soviet Russia, dictionary defines you!"
"In America, you shoot gun. In Soviet Russia, gun shoots you!"
Being Russian myself i can recognize 3 of these jokes, to another 2 i have suggestions
"In America, you go to parties. In Soviet Russia, party goes to you!" Fete 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 comprehend 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 keep quiet and say that he must stay in the family and stop cheating because family is the "cell of the society" and if leaves his kindred 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 credence 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 lay 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 clinch 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 Nautical brig 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 authority 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 bull's-eye of the night and took all family members and nobody saw them after that (they were put in jails or shot).
Zmejka | Jul 05, 2008
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.
Extremely 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 nurse 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.
jbbrant1 | Jan 19, 2009
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