Rabinovich, a Soviet trade official, is called to the Party meeting to be fired.
"Please, I have a family to feed," he begs the Party official.
"Okay," the partorg says, "You will go to Paris to sell Soviet perfume. If you get the contract, we will give you a bonus and let you stay."
So Rabinovich flies off to Paris. A week later, Moscow receives a telegram. ...
Mikhail Gorbachev wakes up late after a long night of worrying about the fate of the USSR over a bottle of vodka.
He's so late, in fact, that he tells his slow-driving limo driver to get out of the car so he can drive himself to the Kremlin. He's speeding down the highway from his dacha into downtown Moscow when he blazes past a cop car on the side of the road.
The first cop says to his partner, "Man, t...
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