The Berlin Sun hates Communists, remember the joke from “The Lives of Others”?
One morning, while General Secretary Erich Honecker is doing his exercises on his balcony, the sun calls out to him and says: “Good morning, Herr Honecker!”
Amazed, Honecker tells his Politburo about it at a meeting a few hours later. They all head over to his house to see what’s going on.
At noon, while they’re all assembled on the balcony, the sun addresses him once more: “Good day, Herr Honecker!” The General Secretary and Politburo spend the rest of the day talking about the miracle until the sun is just about to disappear beyond the horizon.
This time, however, it remains silent. “Sun,” Honecker calls out. “You greeted me in the morning and at noon, so why not in the evening?” The sun replies: “Screw you, I’m in the West now!”
Wow! Nice reference!
I never saw that movie but I heard that joke in the 80’s from someone who lived had lived in Russia in the 70’s, except that it was about Lenin or Brezhnev, and it had the sun slowly travelling over Russia.
The other one I heard at the same time was this:
An American is trying to explain freedom of speech to a Russian. For example, he says “I can go to the front gate of the White house and yell ‘Jimmy Carter is an idiot’”. The Russian doesn’t get it and he replies “Well, I can go to the Kremlin and yell the same thing”.
I was told that Russians thought that joke was hilarious.
Never heard it but liked it a lot.