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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 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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