Somedeclassified CIA jokesabout the Soviet Union having been doing the rounds latterly and they ’re , uh , great ? I venture .

They were play up by University of California Berkeley historiographer Dr Gene Zubovich on Twitter in the first place this week . His tweet was plunk up by theNational Post , among other home .

The 11 jest are , uh , perhaps a bit dated by modern standards . Here ’s the first one :

“ A worker fend in a liquor product line says , ‘ I have had enough , save my billet , I am going to shoot Gorbachev . ’ Two hour later on he returns to take his place in product line . His friends ask , ‘ Did you get him ? ’ No , the line there was even long than the line here . ’

Haha . Here ’s another .

“ What ’s the divergence between Gorbachev and Dubcek ? Nothing , but Gorbachev does n’t be intimate it yet . ”

Classic Gorbachev .

AsQuartznoted last class , the jokes were part of a 13 - million - page discharge of declassified CIA document released online . talk to the website , Peter Clement , deputy assistant director of CIA for Europe and Eurasia , said the prank were democratic in CIA offices at the sentence .

“ The US Embassy in Moscow would send in a ‘ jokes cable , ’ usually annually , listing some of the better jest that they had foot up , ” he said .   “ At the final stage of class , they would do kind of an yearly round - up , kind of a vacation talent if you will . ”

The jokes apparently also made their way into the homes of even masses in the Soviet Union . The CIA waited 25 years to declassify documents , which means this one – dated for release in 2013 – was probably create in 1988 .

Here ’s another . I actually quite like this one :

“ A homo goes into a shop and asks ‘ You do n’t have any meat ? ’ ‘ No answer the sales noblewoman , ‘ We do n’t have any Pisces . It ’s the store across the street that does n’t have any meat . ’ ”

So there you have it . I guess the best way to get through one of the most tumultuous time in modern history , with nukes aimed at one another , was to make light of the situation whenever possible . And hey , who can find fault them with zingers like this :

“ Ivanov : Give me a aesculapian example of perstroyka . Sidorov : ( Thinks ) How about menopause ? ”

you’re able to read the rest of themright here , if you’re able to stomach the hilarity .