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Thursday, November 11, 2021

Khrushchev tours a collective stockyard

 Khrushchev tours a collective stockyard, where the workers show him their latest machine: a state-of-the-art sausage maker.

The workers only have to load a hog carcass, push a button, and a chain of sausages comes out the other end a minute later.

Upon seeing a demonstration, Khrushchev japes, "Ah, but is there a machine where one can put a sausage in and a hog comes out?"

"But Comrade Khrushchev," one of the workers replies, "only your parents can do that!"

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