My uncle got 25 years of hard labor for yelling in Red Square that the Premier is an idiot. 5 years for insulting the Kremlin leader and 20 for telling a state secret.
There’s a 10 year wait to buy a car in Russia, and you have to go through a long bureaucratic process to buy one, and put down the money for it up front.
So one day a man gets to the end of the process, puts his money down, and the bureaucrat says, “Okay, come back in 10 years to get your car.”
The man replies, “Morning or afternoon?”
“What do you mean, it’s 10 years from now, what difference does it make?”
“Well the plumber’s coming in the morning.”