Three friends are in a hotel room in Soviet Russia. Two friends drink vodka and loudly tell political jokes in their hotel room. The third, exhausted, tries to sleep but cannot. Frustrated, he goes downstairs for a smoke. On the way, he asks the receptionist to bring tea to room 39 in five minutes. Returning upstairs, he joins them briefly, then leans toward a power outlet and says, “Comrade lieutenant, please send tea to room 39.” His friends burst into laughter at the joke. Moments later, a knock sounds… and the receptionist arrives with a teapot. The laughter dies; his friends turn pale and silent. The evening ends abruptly, and the tired man finally sleeps. In the morning, he wakes to find his friends gone. Alarmed, he asks the receptionist what happened. She whispers nervously, “The KGB came before dawn and took them.” Horrified, he asks why he was spared. “Comrade lieutenant really liked your tea joke.”