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Alt text:top part of meme has text that reads "Do Russians ", than in the middle of the top part of meme, there is a green lizard and underneath the lizard says "have 'in capitalist America' jokes?". Beneath the other text and lizard, is a city building with a bright blue sky, very light clouds and a 5 large sky scraper buildings, 4 on the left and 1 on the right. On the very bottom of the meme is text that reads "In capitalist america banks rob you"

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

There is real freedom of speech in America. I can walk up to the White House and shout, "Ronald Reagan is an idiot!" and nothing will happen to me, but what about the USSR?

And in the USSR, I can also go up to the Kremlin and shout "Ronald Reagan is an idiot!" and nothing will happen to me either.

The only think that I can remember that somewhat close

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

It’s a play on a kind of joke where subject and object are reversed in Soviet Russia, e.g.:

“In Soviet Russia, you do not rob bank - bank rob you”