In Soviet Russia, Trope Mocks You: Difference between revisions

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{{quote|''"In America[...] you can always find a party.

''In Russia, [[Big Brother Is Watching|Party]] always finds'' you.~~|[[Yakov Smirnoff]]<ref>[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbP1DVeJCT0 Miller Lite Commercial, 1985]</ref>}}~~

''In Russia, [[Big Brother Is Watching|Party]] always finds'' you.

|'''[[Yakov Smirnoff]]''', [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v{{=}}AbP1DVeJCT0 Miller Lite commercial, 1985]</ref>}}

{{quote|[[Roses Are Red, Violets Are Blue|Roses are red

Violets are blue,]]

In Soviet Russia

Poem writes you!~~|'''Anonymous'''}}~~

Poem writes you!

|'''Anonymous'''}}

In Soviet Russia, [[Describe Topic Here|topic describes YOU]]''!!''

A type of joke, commonly called a Russian Reversal (but technically called the transpositional pun), popularized by Ukranian comedian Yakov ~~Smirnof~~. It is based on taking a statement about capitalist America and inverting it to describe the then-Communist Russia as an [[Nineteen Eighty-Four (Literature)|Orwellian]] hellhole. Smirnoff later added the prefix Soviet, to indicate the jokes were meant to target the past regime, as opposed to [[The New Russia]]. For instance:

A type of joke, commonly called a Russian Reversal (but technically called the transpositional pun), popularized by Ukranian comedian [[Yakov Smirnoff]]. It is based on taking a statement about capitalist America and inverting it to describe the then-Communist Russia as an [[Nineteen Eighty-Four (Literature)|Orwellian]] hellhole. Smirnoff later added the prefix Soviet, to indicate the jokes were meant to target the past regime, as opposed to [[The New Russia]]. For instance:

{{quote|In America, you watch Television.

In Soviet Russia, [[Sinister Surveillance|television watches YOU]]! }}

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See also [[Glorious Mother Russia]] for the [[Hollywood Atlas]] version of Soviet Russia that inspired the jokes.

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== [[Trope Namer]] ==

* The [[Trope Namer]] is, of course Yakov Smirnoff <ref>although in Soviet Russia the trope made him</ref> who made jokes about how the U.S.S.R. had a [[Big Brother Is Watching]] regime. It's also a case of [[Beam Me Up, Scotty]]; his most famous line was simply "In Russia...", not "In Soviet Russia..."