In Soviet Russia
"In Soviet Russia", also called the Russian reversal, is a joke template taking the general form "In America you do ''X'' to/with ''Y''; in Soviet Russia ''Y'' does ''X'' to/with you". Typically the American clause describes a harmless ordinary activity and the inverted Soviet form something menacing or dysfunctional, satirizing life under communist rule, or in the "old country". Sometimes the first clause is omitted, and sometimes either clause or both are deliberately rendered with English grammatical errors stereotypical of Russians.Although the exact origin of the joke form is uncertain, an early example is from the 1938 Cole Porter musical ''Leave It to Me!'' ("In Soviet Russia, messenger tips you."). Bob Hope used the form at the 1958 Academy Awards. In the 1968–1973 television show ''Laugh-In'', a recurring character, "Piotr Rosmenko the Eastern European Man" (played by Arte Johnson), delivered short jokes such as "Here in America, is very good, everyone watch television. In old country, television watch you!" This joke alludes to "telescreens" from George Orwell's dystopian novel ''Nineteen Eighty-Four'', which both reproduce images and monitor the citizenry.
The joke form is often associated with the Soviet emigrant comedian Yakov Smirnoff, who used it, for example, in a 1985 Miller Lite commercial: "In America, there's plenty of light beer and you can always find a party. In Russia, Party always finds you". Another example is by Garry Kasparov: "Every country has its own mafia; In Russia, the mafia has its own country." Provided by Wikipedia
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461by Markova, Evgenia, Malygin, Vasily, Montuire, Sophie, Nadachowski, Adam, Quéré, Jean-Pierre, Ochman, KatarzynaContributors: “... personnel of innovative Russia” (02.740.11.0279)....”
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462by Markova, Evgenia, Malygin, Vasily, Montuire, Sophie, Nadachowski, Adam, Quéré, Jean-Pierre, Ochman, KatarzynaContributors: “... personnel of innovative Russia” (02.740.11.0279)....”
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463by Markova, Evgenia, Malygin, Vasily, Montuire, Sophie, Nadachowski, Adam, Quéré, Jean-Pierre, Ochman, KatarzynaContributors: “... personnel of innovative Russia” (02.740.11.0279)....”
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464by Markova, Evgenia, Malygin, Vasily, Montuire, Sophie, Nadachowski, Adam, Quéré, Jean-Pierre, Ochman, KatarzynaContributors: “... personnel of innovative Russia” (02.740.11.0279)....”
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465by de Angelis, Martine, Morel-Fourcade, Marie-Christine, Barnola, Jean-Marc, Susini, Jean, Duval, PaulContributors: “...Joint program involving Russia...”
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466by ISSP Research GroupContributors: “...Levada Center, Moscow, Russia...”
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467by S. A. Kutenkov, M. N. Kozhin, E. O. Golovina, С. А. Кутенков, М. Н. Кожин, Е. О. ГоловинаContributors: “...This research was funded from state assignment of FASO Russia (IB KarRC RAS theme no. 122031700449...”
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468by De Angelis, Martine, Morel-Fourcade, Marie-Christine, Barnola, Jean-Marc, Susini, Jean, Duval, PaulContributors: “...Joint program involving Russia...”
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469by Tamara Litvinenko V., Kazuhiro Kumo, Antonina Savvinova N., Viktoriia Filippova V.Contributors: “... Development of Russia in the Conditions of Its Unevenness and Global Instability’) and supported...”
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470by de Angelis, Martine, Morel-Fourcade, Marie-Christine, Barnola, Jean-Marc, Susini, Jean, Duval, PaulContributors: “...Joint program involving Russia...”
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471by de Angelis, Martine, Morel-Fourcade, Marie-Christine, Barnola, Jean-Marc, Susini, Jean, Duval, PaulContributors: “...Joint program involving Russia...”
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472by de Angelis, Martine, Morel-Fourcade, Marie-Christine, Barnola, Jean-Marc, Susini, Jean, Duval, PaulContributors: “...Joint program involving Russia...”
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473by Alfonsi, Lu., Kavanagh, A. J., Amata, E., Cilliers, P., Correia, E., Freeman, M., Kauristie, K., Liu, R., Luntama, J.-P., Mitchell, C. N., Zherebtsov, G. A.Contributors: “... of Science, Irkutsk, Russia...”
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474by Vandenberghe, Jef, French, Hugh M., Gorbunov, Aldar, Marchenko, Sergei, Velichko, Andrey A., Jin, Huijun, Cui, Zhijiu, Zhang, Tingjun, Wan, XudongContributors: “...RAS, Inst Geog, Moscow 110017, Russia....”
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475by Zona, Donatella, Lafleur, Peter, Hufkens, Koen, Bailey, Barbara, Gioli, Beniamino, Burba, George, Goodrich, Jordan, Liljedahl, Anna, Euskirchen, Eugénie, Watts, Jennifer, Farina, Mary, Kimball, John, Heimann, Martin, Göckede, Mathias, Pallandt, Martijn, Christensen, Torben, Mastepanov, Mikhail, López-Blanco, Efrén, Jackowicz-Korczynski, Marcin, Dolman, Albertus, Marchesini, Luca Belelli, Commane, Roisin, Wofsy, Steven, Miller, Charles, Lipson, David, Hashemi, Josh, Arndt, Kyle, Kutzbach, Lars, Holl, David, Boike, Julia, Wille, Christian, Sachs, Torsten, Kalhori, Aram, Song, Xia, Xu, Xiaofeng, Humphreys, Elyn, Koven, Charles, Sonnentag, Oliver, Meyer, Gesa, Gosselin, Gabriel, Marsh, Philip, Oechel, WalterContributors: “...Peoples Friendship University of Russia RUDN University (RUDN)...”
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476by Dorokhov, Valery, Tsvetkova, N., Yushkov, Vladimir, Nakajima, H., Ivlev, G., Makshtas, A., Tereb, N., Goutail, Florence, Pazmino, Andrea, Pommereau, Jean-PierreContributors: “...Roshydromet, Russia...”
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477by Fabre, Clément, Simeoni-Sauvage, Sabine, Tananaev, Nikita, Espitalier-Noël, Grégory, Teisserenc, Roman, Probst, Jean-Luc, Sanchez-Perez, Jose-MiguelContributors: “...Ugra Research Institute of Information Technologies (RUSSIA)...”
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478by Dorokhov, Valery, Tsvetkova, N., Yushkov, Vladimir, Nakajima, H., Ivlev, G., Makshtas, A., Tereb, N., Goutail, Florence, Pazmino, Andrea, Pommereau, Jean-PierreContributors: “...Roshydromet, Russia...”
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479by Dorokhov, Valery, Tsvetkova, N., Yushkov, Vladimir, Nakajima, H., Ivlev, G., Makshtas, A., Tereb, N., Goutail, Florence, Pazmino, Andrea, Pommereau, Jean-PierreContributors: “...Roshydromet, Russia...”
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480by Dorokhov, Valery, Tsvetkova, N., Yushkov, Vladimir, Nakajima, H., Ivlev, G., Makshtas, A., Tereb, N., Goutail, Florence, Pazmino, Andrea, Pommereau, Jean-PierreContributors: “...Roshydromet, Russia...”
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