I don't get the joke, could someone elucidate for me? =)
Side note: in my searching for potential context, I found a powder-coating called "rustic red texture" with the designation "PTB-1937"
Funny that trying to understand a joke about an old Bolshevik would yield results about an entirely unrelated rustic red
Edit: Nevermind, figured it out XD 
Stalin murdered a lot of other communists in 1937.
How dare you suggest the State did something wrong? That's a thoughtcrime, straight to the gulag with you!
Reminds me of an old joke:
An American tells a Russian that people in USA have the freedom of speech and that he even could go to the White House and shout:"Fuck you, Ronald Reagan!"
The Russian answers:"Oh, we also have freedom of speech. I, too, can go to Kremlin and shout:" Fuck you, Ronald Reagan!"
You can still go to the while house and say fuck you Ronald Reagan.
Some things never change.
Now do Xi! ;)
banned, rule 1
.ml can be assumed PTB almost all of the time. It's pretty much cheating for here.
PTB. Once you get the joke, it's a funny meme. And if you can't even poke fun at Stalin on .ml then who can you poke fun at?
It did get me going down a rabbit hole about Russian Political Jokes on Wikipedia, so it was an overall W
PTB. It's .ml after all!
I don't get the
Oooooohhh
That's a good joke.
I also didn't get the reason for the ban, but I get that now too. That's a good joke.
Oh damn that post got removed? Shame, I thought it was really good!
hehe makes me laugh
This is a community in the spirit of "Am I The Asshole" where people can post their own bans from lemmy or reddit or whatever and get some feedback from others whether the ban was justified or not.
Sometimes one just wants to be able to challenge the arguments some mod made and this could be the place for that.
All posts should follow this basic structure:
Expect to receive feedback about your posts, they might even be negative.
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