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Russian reversal en · NOUN
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A type of joke that reverses the subject and object of an ordinary statement, claiming to describe the situation in Soviet Russia.
Smirnoff's popularity has waned since its high point in the 1980s, but the Russian reversal enjoys a vibrant second act as an internet meme, and it has shaped an image of late Soviet life as harsh and impoverished […]
2016, Choi Chatterjee, Lisa A. Kirschenbaum, Deborah A. Field, Russia's Long Twentieth Century:Decades ago comics like Yakov Smirnoff used to do “Russian Reversal” jokes: “In America you can always find a party! In Soviet Russia, party always finds you.”
2015, Danny Katch, Socialism . . . Seriously: A Brief Guide to Human Liberation, page 35:Sounds like a Russian Reversal. "In Soviet Japan, life lives YOU!"
2015, TJ Edmister, “Re: Interesting phraseology”, in sci.lang.japan (Usenet):
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