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@gungasnake,

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@Tes yeux noirs,

Interesting. I always thought it was a Slashdot meme, but it seems it is much older.

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The Soviet union went out of business and ceased to exist in the late 1980s.

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@gungasnake,

The dissolution of the Soviet Union was on December 26, 1991.

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@Walter Hinteler,

Signature under the "Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to Germany" (aka Two Plus Four Agreement), as signed on12 September 1990:

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@gungasnake,

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The Soviet union went out of business and ceased to exist in the late 1980s.

Indeed, but "Soviet Russia" jokes did not. In fact, they go from strength to strength.

In Soviet Russia, they have "Capitalist America" jokes, e.g. "in Capitalist America, bank robs you!"

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@Tes yeux noirs,

Tes yeux noirs wrote:

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The Soviet union went out of business and ceased to exist in the late 1980s.

Indeed, but "Soviet Russia" jokes did not.