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haha.

Yeah the Russian I knew told me a story about if you where walking past a queue you joined it, didn't matter if you knew what was at the other end whatever it was could be bartered.

They where incredibly innovative in how they dealt with the lack of resources, bit like Cuba and keeping 60 year old cars on the road I guess, needs must when the devil drives.



I was trying to remember an old joke about waiting in line, and obviously went to Wikipedia.

Amusingly, both the Russian Jokes page and the Russian Political Jokes page appear to have no Russian translations...




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