Keep Investigating

~ Clarissa

Two young women and two young men were arrested in Russia for allegedly painting the top of a public building blue and yellow (the colors of Ukrainian flag) and flying a Ukrainian flag on top.

Knowing how often the Russian criminal justice system railroads innocent people and makes them confess through torture and rape, the Ukrainian artist who actually did paint the building has been trying to confess and get the innocent people released. He hasn’t been hugely successful.

The story reminded me of this ancient Soviet joke where Stalin lost his pipe and a huge investigation was launched to find the thief.

An hour later, Stalin called the Chief of his secret police.

“It’s OK,” Stalin said. “I found the pipe. It had fallen between the desk and the bookcase.”

“Good to know!” the chief of secret police said. “Because I’ve been investigating and everybody except for one person confessed to stealing the pipe.”

“EXCEPT ONE?” Stalin bellowed. “Keep investigating!”

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  2. A very special rabbit gets lost in the woods. So to find the rabbit the intelligence services of the US, UK and USSR are brought in. The CIA brings out all kinds of high tech equipment to search for it. MI5 starts setteling long term agents in the woods to keep an eye out for it. The KGB comes back with a horse and starts to beat it and scream, “confess, you’re a rabbit” at it. 😎

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  4. Since people are sharing jokes:

    That reminds me of what a journo said to me once when we were talking about the disproportionate amount of coverage of the Israel/Palestine conflict.
    “Well”, he said, “It’s because it’s what we call a four-star conflict”
    “”What does that mean?”
    “It means a conflict where you are never more than a short taxi-ride from at least a four-star hotel!”

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