Old Joke on Soviet Censorship, Nationalities UPDATED

As Putin said, woke America is copying the Soviets.

An American [Indian] visiting Soviet Russia [America] needed a tooth pulled, and was shocked to discover the astronomical price.

“Why so expensive for a basic tooth extraction?”

Well, answered the Russian [American] dentist, we have to go through the ear.

“Through the ear?!”

“Exactly. In Soviet Russia [America] these days no one is allowed to ‘open their mouth’, so we are forced to work through the ear…”

(I know. It presumably sounds better in Russian.)