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I heard there was a Soviet-era joke along these lines:

Q: Under true communism, will there be money? A: Yes and no. Some will have money, others won't.



The one I heard was this:

When Ivan was a boy, he asked a Party Man, "How will we know when true communism has been acheived?"

The Party Man thought for a little bit, and said, "The shops will be full of goods, and there will be no money."

Decades later, in the early 1990s, Ivan is now an old man. He looks through the windows of the department stores, and sticks his hands in pickets. He smiles to himself, and whispers, "At last, true communism!"




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