CIA Declassifies Archive of Soviet Jokes in English

https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/document/cia-rdp89g00720r000800040003-6

Examples:

"A man walks into a shop. He asks the clerk, “You don’t have any meat?” The clerk says, “No, here we don’t have any fish. The shop that doesn’t have any meat is across the street.”

“An American explains to a Russian that the United States is a truly free country because he can stand in front of the White House and shout ‘To hell with Ronald Reagan!’ The Russian says that this is nonsense, because he can easily stand in Red Square and shout 'To hell with Ronald Reagan.”

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I love these!

Also Radio Yerevan jokes:
http://www.armeniapedia.org/index.php?title=Radio_Yerevan_Jokes

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Bless you! I’m printing this out for some old russian jews at my synagogue.

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