There's a famous soviet joke:

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6. Another Soviet era joke.

A woman gives her young son some money and tells him
"get me a Pravda, your sister a Komsomol Pravda and your
father an Izvestia." On the way to the newsstand he runs into
the old man who asks where hes going. He tells him "to get
the papers". The old man takes the money saying "we can
get the news from the radio" and heads back to bar. The kid
goes back home and tells his mother what happened. She
gives him more money and tells him "get me a Pravda, your
sister a Komsomol Pravda and your father can wipe his ass
on the radio."