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…

A man from Moscow decides to move to a new collective farm in Siberia. His family is excited at the possibility of leaving their cramped flat in the city for a nice country house, but they have heard mixed things about the new Siberian farms so the man agrees to go on his own first, and write back to let them know if they should follow him or not. They know the government censors will read the letter, so they agree in advance to use a simple code: anything written in blue ink is true, but anythi…