Here's the
link to the Wikipedia page with the history and various examples of the "Soviet Russia" joke- actually quite interesting. I've pulled out some of the best jokes:
This is where the basic idea for the joke came from:
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Originally Posted by Wikipedia
All of Smirnoff's original “In Soviet Russia” jokes made use of wordplay that carried Orwellian undertones. For example, one well known joke of this type (already in circulation in the 1960s) runs (with minor variations) “In the US, you watch television. In Soviet Russia, television watches you!” or “In the US, you check out books at the library. In Soviet Russia, library book checks out you!”, both punchlines refer to systems of omnipresent surveillance characteristic of police states. The first joke alludes to video screens that both reproduce images and monitor the citizenry, as in Nineteen Eighty-Four. A modern version in the same spirit is: "In Mozilla, you keep tabs on your browser. In Soviet Russia, browser keeps tabs on you!"
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In the US, you pity the fool. In Soviet Russia, fool pities you!
(Regarding poker- from ESPN) In Soviet Union, Full House means KGB in your basement!
(For my Canadian friends) In Soviet Russia, Waldo finds
YOU!
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