Russian guy queues all day at the butcher to buy meat for dinner.
When he finally gets to the front the butcher pulls down the shutters, "no more meat".
Fella goes into melt down, explains he has worked hard, supported the revolution, been a comrade all his lfe, but all to no avail.
As he leaves a guy in a long coat comes out of the shadows.
"comrade, comrade, stay calm, a few years ago and you know what would have happened to you" and then using his hand to imitate a gun, points it at the fella's head, cocks his thumb and says "BANG" .
When he gets home his wife sees the empty shopping bag and exclaims "Have they run out of meat again ?"
Worse than that, he says . . . . they've even run out of bullets now.