americans when their country’s politicians do the most american, imperialist, & capitalist thing ever:
“WHAT ARE WE A BUNCHA GODLESS COMMUNISTS?! IS THIS DA NORTH KOREA?!?! BAH GAWD!! REMINDS ME OF AN OLD JOKE ABOUT GENERALISMO STALIN!! FUCKIN TANKIES GLOBO HOMO USA 4EVER”
“WHAT ARE WE A BUNCHA GODLESS COMMUNISTS?! IS THIS DA NORTH KOREA?!?! BAH GAWD!! REMINDS ME OF AN OLD JOKE ABOUT GENERALISMO STALIN!! FUCKIN TANKIES GLOBO HOMO USA 4EVER”
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Well the founding fathers were a bunch of slave owning rapists committing genocide upon an indigenous population, are we really so hung up on what these guys wanted?
https://bsky.app/profile/doogie2k.bsky.social/post/3ljb6lgxc222h
Things like unaffordable housing, with the ratio for rent and col to earnings being worse in Bejing than NY or LA. US sucks ass but China ain't paradise either...
For a penniless man, a McDonalds Burger is just as out of reach as a filet mignon.
and tbh I don't hate it
okay how is letting wealthy freaks do whatever they want working out for America
https://youtu.be/K_LvRPX0rGY?si=Jd49Catu-knU05Pf
other white people in america: "Yo what are we, a bunch of ASIANS?"
the joke itself is originally from czarist russia, you anti-communist fucking hack:
*There is nothing wrong with being communist, this is a historical example pertinent to the quoted skeet.
I am so tired
Same principle here. Just because you heard it doesn't means you should retell that joke.
https://bsky.app/profile/melanienewfield.bsky.social/post/3llfr42l53k2p
The NKVD existed from 1934 to 1946, so the joke in this form comes from Josef Stalin's time. It's also pretty on-point about the NKVD - who carried out Stalin's purges.
All this is a digression from the original post and a sign I have too much idle time.
Having said all that, I can't say for sure when the joke originated, so you may well be correct as to its origins.
Similar jokes about the TX Rangers and the LAPD exist and all may have independent origins.
The Cheka and it's successors were deadly, pervasive, and effective. I'd liken them to the Spanish Inquisition, enforcing conformity upon an entire society. As in the Inquisition, the accused were assumed guilty and vanished without hope into the system.
The Okhrana was probably more akin to Hoover's FBI, which wasn't as effective as people think. They seem to have focused on Jews and dissidents. Their bungling may have helped precipitate the 1905 revolution and they failed to predict the Bolshevik revolt.
Now, Iron Felix created the Cheka which is credited with 1.2 million victims in 1918 - 1922. The GPU replaced the Cheka for a year and the OGPU took over until 1934. Iron Felix continued to run the organization until replaced by Menzhinsky. in 1934, the OBPU was taken over by the NKVD.
Takes a certain type of someone to be a member of a secret police torturing ppl en masse. All that changes is who they work for and what uniform they wear…
Like yeeeesh
So, maybe it originated among Jews in Tsarist Russia. As one of the 2 groups targeted by the Okhrana, it would make sense.