"You study the Soviet life via US propaganda about Soviet propaganda about real Soviet life." - What did you mean by that?
Your jokes are very true ones.
Another one:
Q: Is that true that in Communism it will be possible to order food by telephone?
A: True. But it will be delivered by television.
Russians are "planning" a lot of things. One of the features of mindset of Russian society is permanent talk about ever greater and more impressive projects. None of those normally come true, but they make Russian people feel as if they would be the Greatest Nation of All. So Russians spend their lives in illusionary dreamscape where unfounded paranoid sense of one's greatness and superiority co-exists with the feeblest and most pathetic of realities ever seen by Man which in fact they are living in.
A common trick of Russian propaganda is comparing Russian _planned_ endeavours with the _actual_ accomplishments of the others. While absolutely absurd as it is, the trick makes Russians feel good about themselves, as noted above. The obvious difference between plans and facts seems eluding majority of Russian population.
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be first overcome. -- Dr. Johnson