For the Winter Olympics, The Daily Show sent Jason Jones to Moscow, which is no longer the USSR but is now like America "with a fucked up alphabet." Best moment of the Cold War Nostalgia groove: Mikhial Gorbachev, unaccountably still alive, threatens to put Jones through a wall for trying to pull an unscheduled interview. Also fun are the media-savvy Moscovites on the street who recognize Drago from Rocky IV as a "Russian stereotype" and Boris and Natasha as characters from an "American bullshit cartoon" (Bullshit, Bullwinkle, whatevs).

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