Venezuela is running out of everything: Bread, sugar, toilet paper...

[somebozo]

One thing it is not running out is socialism..this is why censorship is important..it Karl Marx was rounded up an executed Nazi style..many countries and generations would have been spared his flawed logic..

 

[Vassnti]

How can a socialist state be in any form of material shortage? Where are our in-house experts?

From an old Russianjoke:

A woman walking in the street is carrying a bag full of rolls of toilet paper.
A passer-by opens his mouth, "Hey, mother, where did you buy it?"
"Buy? Are you crazy? Where could I buy it nowadays? They are five years old. I am taking them back from the cleaners."

Sadly a Socialist state is were everyone has money and there is little to buy and a Capitalist state is were there is everything to buy and most cant afford it.

 

[+4vsgorillas-Apebane]

From an old Russianjoke:

A woman walking in the street is carrying a bag full of rolls of toilet paper.
A passer-by opens his mouth, "Hey, mother, where did you buy it?"
"Buy? Are you crazy? Where could I buy it nowadays? They are five years old. I am taking them back from the cleaners."

Sadly a Socialist state is were everyone has money and there is little to buy and a Capitalist state is were there is everything to buy and most cant afford it.

Hmmm, I dont get the joke - the bit with the cleaners, what am I missing?

 

[gambit]

Hmmm, I dont get the joke - the bit with the cleaners, what am I missing?

During the Cold War, the Soviet Union and most of its satellites lived in a steady state of scarcity in terms of everything, including decent toilet papers. State owned factories produced TP were like wax paper.

http://home.wlv.ac.uk/~le1958/t2.htm

While I do not pretend to have exhaustive knowledge of toilet paper use through the FSU, I can provide you the following insights based on firsthand experience:


1. My first trip to the USSR occurred in 1967, when I studied at LGU (Leningrad State University). We had been warned to either bring our own toilet paper or reconcile ourselves to using makeshift alternatives, since the Soviet product -- when available at all -- resembled waxed paper. The warnings were accurate, except that I would say "single-sheet waxed paper." Routinely, Russians and foreigners resorted to newspaper, a more than fitting use for Pravda. Of course, I am referring here to the men's facilities; I do not know what amenities the women enjoyed. (My guess, based on the paternalism of the society, is that the women fared better than we did and may have actually had something usable.)

It was both a joke -- a sad one -- and a fact that give a Soviet girl a package of Western produced TP and you are like Romeo, Don Juan, and Prince Charming all rolled into one.

So this joke is about recycling toilet papers.