Two brothers in Communist Russia were trying to improve their lot. One of them says "I keep hearing rumors about Siberia, it's cold, sure, but you can have all the food you can eat, and candles are free." The other one says "It's probably just propaganda again. Still, it would be nice to know for sure." The first says "How about just one of us goes there, then he can write a letter to the other to let him know how conditions really are!" The other says "No, the censors would stop delivery of a letter that said anything in the motherland was less than perfect." The first thinks a minute, then says "How about one of us goes, and if everything is good, writes the other a letter saying so, but he writes in blue ink? If things are as bad as they are here, he still says things are great, but he writes in red ink." The second says "That's a great idea! As a matter of fact, I'll leave tomorrow and let you know!" So the first brother stays home, eagerly awaiting a letter from his brother. After two months, the expected letter finally arrives and he tears it open to read it. It's written in blue ink! "Dear brother" it says "Siberia is wonderful! The sun shines nearly every day, warming the countryside, the fields are heavy with grain, and the women are breathtakingly beautiful! There's only one slight problem with this land. They don't seem to have any red ink."