Alt text:top part of meme has text that reads "Do Russians ", than in the middle of the top part of meme, there is a green lizard and underneath the lizard says “have ‘in capitalist America’ jokes?”. Beneath the other text and lizard, is a city building with a bright blue sky, very light clouds and a 5 large sky scraper buildings, 4 on the left and 1 on the right. On the very bottom of the meme is text that reads “In capitalist america banks rob you”

  • @[email protected]
    10•1 year ago

    There is real freedom of speech in America. I can walk up to the White House and shout, “Ronald Reagan is an idiot!” and nothing will happen to me, but what about the USSR?

    And in the USSR, I can also go up to the Kremlin and shout “Ronald Reagan is an idiot!” and nothing will happen to me either.

    The only think that I can remember that somewhat close

    • 新星 [he/him/CPC bot]English
      4•1 year ago

      It’s a play on a kind of joke where subject and object are reversed in Soviet Russia, e.g.:

      “In Soviet Russia, you do not rob bank - bank rob you”