a KGB agent and a CIA agent meet up for drinks off the clock, and after a few drinks they start to talk shop. the CIA agent extols the strength of the Party's propaganda, "All your citizens believe the propaganda! it's incredible! So little dissent." and the KGB responds, "No my friend no, we are good at what we do, but you are the true masters of the art. No one at all questions your propaganda!" to which the CIA agent says, confused, "What do you mean? We don't have propaganda?"
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@Ambulocetus A related quote I can't stop sharing these days:
"The US is also a one-party state. But with typical American extravagance, they have two of them."—Dr. Julius Nyerere, first president of Tanzania
@Ambulocetus Old jokes about life under the Soviet Union's totalitarianism are ripe for repurposing, e.g.
A young man, fresh off twelve hours of binging on Andrew Tate videos applies for a job with ICE. He's offered the job.
"Ok," he asks, "and how much does it pay?"
The interviewer's brow furrows. "We give you a gun, masked anonymity, and immunity from prosecution for murder. If you still need a salary, I'm not sure you're cut out for this."
@Ambulocetus my Dad was a USAF officer commanding a photo-interpretation intelligence group in Japan in the early 1970s. He later said he knew his Soviet counterpart well, and when we went down to Expo '70, talked with him on the Shinkansen. At the Expo he apparently used me as a decoy to get better pictures of the (Edit: Soyuz) capsule while the Soviet booth attendants fawned over the tiny American child. I still have a Young Communist pin from that trip.
