Gates of Vienna: The Train is Moving
"An old Soviet joke is required in order to introduce this topic. Some of our readers are old enough to remember the context of this joke; it is the funniest Soviet joke I know of:
It seems that Stalin, Khrushchev, and Brezhnev were riding on a train. Suddenly, out in the middle of nowhere, the train inexplicably stopped.
After a few minutes of fidgeting, Stalin stood up and left the compartment. He returned after a while and said, “Problem is solved. Engineer has been shot.”
Still the train did not move. After a few more minutes, Khrushchev stood up and left the compartment. When he returned, he said, “Problem is solved. Engineer has been posthumously rehabilitated.”
And still the train did not move. Finally Brezhnev stood up, pulled down the window shade, and said, “Problem is solved. Train is moving.”
In the UK, as far as the spread of terrorist ideology through radical mosques is concerned, the train is moving."
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