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Thursday, November 11, 2021

A commissar is touring a mental sanitarium

 A commissar is touring a mental sanitarium. He notices half of the men are proudly singing the Soviet anthem, but the other half remain strangely quiet.

He pulls a nurse aside and asks, "Who are those men who aren't singing?"

"Those are all the patients in recovery, commissar."

Variants may have the non-singer revealed to be someone else who is sane, such as an employee at the sanitarium.

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