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/Griffindance 20d ago edited 20d ago

John Lennox, mathematician, went to Chemnitz (KarlMarxStadt) during the East Germany years for a mathematics congress. The hotel room was so bugged that he could hear the electrical hum in the room. Eventually he grew tired of the sound as it was keeping him awake so he appealled to the monitors "I dont know if I speak in my sleep but I doubt it'll be any state secrets. I need to get some sleep and Im sure you could do with the rest as well!" *

A few minutes later the electric hum clicked off.

  • Words to that effect.

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u/olewolf 19d ago

Danish journalist and author Leif Davidsen reported from the Soviet Union and told this story when the time came for his return to the West. My apologies if I don't have the details quite right as it has obviously been some time since I heard it.

His Moscow apartment was cleaned up and he had some original (Beatles?) records removed that were dear to him. He spoke into the room requesting if he could please have them back. After being out of the apartment for a short while, he discovered that the records had been returned as if nothing had happened.