General   (General discussion, talk about anything.)

Three gulag inmates are telling each other what they’re in for. The first one says, "I was five minutes late for work, and they charged me with sabotage." The second says, "For me it was just the opposite: I was five minutes early for work, and they charged me with espionage." The third one says, "I got to work right on time, and they charged me with harming the Soviet economy by acquiring a watch in a capitalist country".

I do like communist jokes: not belly laughs, but so often superb use of subtle irony to say something that people could not say openly. I think a bit more of thar would go down well nowadays.