My all-time favorite Soviet joke > IT IS LIKE THE SOVIET JOKE about Rabinovitch, a Jewish man who wants to emigrate. The bureaucrat at the emigration office asks him why, and Rabinovitch answers: ""There are two reasons. The first is that I'm afraid that in the Soviet Union, the communists will lose power, and the new power will put all the blame for communist crimes on us, Jews there will again be anti-Jewish pogroms ..."" ""But"", interrupts the bureaucrat, ""this is pure nonsense, nothing can change in the Soviet Union, the power of the communists will last forever!"" ""Well,"" responds Rabinovitch calmly, ""that's my second reason."" from [Zizek's Jokes: (Did You Hear the One About Hegel and Negation?) ](http://www.amazon.co.uk/Zizeks-Jokes-About-Hegel-Negation/dp/0262026716) , p127