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everybodyknows on Feb 7, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: CIA Declassified Coldwar Russian Jokes [pdf]

An East German version of this, with Erich Honecker in place of Brezhnev, is told by a young Stasi recruit in the 2006 film "Das Leben der Anderen". Spoiler alert: The attempt at humor proves severely career-limiting.

camperman on Feb 7, 2017 [–]

I thought it was the hang up and try again joke:

What's the difference between Honecker and a telephone? Nothing! Just hang up and try again!

(aufhängen, neuwählen means both "hang up and try again" and "hang him and vote again")

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