"In Soviet Russia", also called the Russian reversal, is a joke template taking the general form "In America you do X; in Soviet Russia X does you". Typically the American clause describes a harmless ordinary activity and the inverted Soviet form something menacing or dysfunctional, satirizing life under communist rule, or in the "old country".
"In Soviet Russia", also called the Russian reversal, is a joke template taking the general form "In America you do X; in Soviet Russia X does you". Typically the American clause describes a harmless ordinary activity and the inverted Soviet form something menacing or dysfunctional, satirizing life under communist rule, or in the "old country".
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