The schoolteacher asks the first pupil: “What’s two times two?” “Four,” the pupil answers. “Try again,” says the teacher. “Five,” says the pupil. “And again,” says the teacher. “Hmmm … six?” The teacher writes down in his report: “Promising young Communist. Stupid, but is making progress.” He asks a second pupil the same question. “Four” is the first answer once again, and “five” the second answer, but after that the pupil sticks to “five.” The teacher writes down in his report: “Promising young Communist. Stupid, but determined.” The teacher puts the question to a third pupil, who answers “four” resolutely each time. The teacher notes: “Keep this child under observation. He appears to be an intellectual.”

From Ben Lewis’ Hammer and Tickle: A History of Communism Told Through Communist Jokes, London: Phoenix, 2008, pp. 92-93.