Perestroika Jokes

From a recent Time magazine:
A Russian walks into a bar and orders a beer. "That will be
one ruble," says the bartender. "One ruble!" the customer protests,
"last week it was only fifty kopeks!" "Well," replies the bartender,
"it's fifty kopeks for the beer and fifty kopeks for the perestroika."
Reluctantly, the customer gives the bartender a ruble, and is surprised
when the bartender gives him back fifty kopeks and says, "We are
out of beer."

Heard this morning on the national radio:
In USSR, a boy talking to his grand-father:
Boy: "What is the Perestroika?"
Grand-Father: "You see these two buckets of coal? One is full and the
other one is empty."
B: "Yes."
GF: "Well... (he walks to the buckets and drop the coal from the full
bucket into the empty one)... This is the Perestroika."
B: "But, this is the same thing."
GF: "Yes, but did you hear the noise?"