Here is my favorite:

It is the time of Glasnost and the Soviet state is showing a kinder, gentler face. But, still there are shortages. An old man and his wife are waiting patiently in line to get into a store to buy a half kilo of meat when the store manager comes out and tells the line "we are out of meat--go home."

Two KGB agents:
- What do you think of comrade Krouchev?
- The same as you...
- You're under arrest!

"No. 7" by Mark is pretty good, but there is a DDR variation- not a joke, but fact.
The waiting list for a car in DDR was 13, yes 13 years, and when you were informed that your car was ready for collection, you paid CASH!
This told me in 1968, by my wife's uncle, (now deceased) who lived in Berlin-Pankow

DDR also had a fine education system.

Children were taught to read.
Children were taught to write,
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- Почему в аpмии нет КВH?
- Потому что веселые сидят на гаупвахте,

 а находчивые - дома.