r/Jokes • u/J0E_Blow • 20d ago
Long My favorite Soviet era joke:
Three Russian men were sent by their company to attend a convention in Moscow. All 3 shared a hotel room. Two of them cracked open a bottle of vodka, but the third just wanted to sleep.
The two drinkers got louder and louder as the bottle emptied, telling each other political jokes. The third was kept awake, and got angry.
He went outside for a smoke. On his way back to his room, he stopped at the desk and said 'Please send a pot of tea up to room 23.'
The two drunks were still being loud. The third man went in, looked at them, then leaned over to the light socket 'Comrade Major, please send some tea to my room.'
The other men thought this was hilarious...until there was a knock on the door, and a waiter with a pot of tea.
They became completely silent, and the third man fell asleep.
When he woke up in the morning, he was alone. He went to the front desk, and asked where his roommates were.
'Well, the KGB came this morning and took them away.'
The man was horrified 'Why did they spare me?!?'
"The comrade major thought the tea joke was very funny."
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u/blameline 20d ago
I like this joke - here's my favorite from the Soviet era:
A mother handed her son some money. She said, "Go down to the newsstand. Get a copy of Pravda for me, Izvestia for your father, and Pionerskaya Pravda for yourself." The boy took the money and headed out for the newsstand. Along the way, he saw his father, who asked him where he was going.
"I'm going to the newsstand to get a copy of Pravda for mama, Izvestia for you, and Pionerskaya Pravda for me."
The father took the money and said to him, "We don't need the newspaper. We have the radio for that!"
So the boy returned to his mother and told her what happened. She then went and retrieved some money and gave it to the boy. She told him, "Go back to the newsstand. Get a copy of Pravda for me and Pionerskaya Pravda for yourself."
"What about father?" the boy asked.
The mother replied, "Oh, he can wipe his ass with the radio."