RSSR Ethnicity and Film Panel Another POV

[Hugh Olmsted]

Another variant: it was a classic Khrushchev joke.  The tailor who could was in Odessa.
"Nikita Sergeevich!  Mozhet, vy bol'shoi chelovek tam u sebia v Moskve, a zdes' v Odesse vy prosto malen'kii kusok g**na."
Hugh Olmsted

On Dec 31, 2010, at 1:37 PM, Jules Levin wrote:

> On 12/31/2010 7:45 AM, Lewis B. Sckolnick wrote:
>> A foreign country had sent Brezhnev a small amount of fine cloth, from which he hoped to make a sport coat.
> 
> Ah, jokes!  This was a classic Kissinger joke.  The cloth was a gift from China, the tailors who couldn't were in London and Paris, but the little tailor who could was in Tel Aviv.    The punch line was:  "Mr. Kissinger, you may be a big man in London and Paris, but in Tel Aviv you're not such a big man...
> 
> Jules Levin
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