Got this joke in an email from a friend:

Ivan dies and his soul is sent to hell. In front of the gate a devil asks him, “Do you want to go to the capitalist hell or the socialist hell?”

Ivan is thinking about how to decide when he hears his friend Vasily calling to him from behind the gate. “Hey, Ivan! Come to our hell. In the capitalist hell they’ll throw you in a large cauldron full of boiling tar where you’ll burn eternally.”

“And in the socialist hell?”

“The arrangement is the same, only here they either run out of tar or they run short of fuel—and when both tar and fuel are available, the devils have a union meeting.”