An old joke from East Germany A German worker gets a job in Siberia. Aware of how all mail will be read by censors, he tells his friends: "Let’s establish a code: if a letter you will get from me is written in ordinary blue ink, it is true; if it is written in red ink, it is false." After a month, his friends get the first letter, written in blue ink: "Everything is wonderful here: stores are full, food is abundant, apartments are large and properly heated, movie theaters show films from the W…

Anyone who claims on the internet that the President is a Communist, should be forced to spend a year in 1934 Siberia.

Eastern Europe - 1989 "If we leave the Soviet Union, we might have to get visas to visit Siberia and turnips will be more expensive"

While we're on the subject of Russian jokes... Here's one I have heard about the gulag. A little background: many jokesters ended up doing time in Siberia, and obviously couldn't be heard telling jokes while they were there. So, they invented a system where each joke was identified by a designated number. Let's call [this joke](http://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/wpeyj/a_joke_my_russian_friend_told/) #39. Here's how this one goes: A couple of prisoners are sitting around the gulag, telling ea…