Soviet court sentenced a man to 10 years and two days for running
through the streets shouting, "Khruschev is an idiot!"

"'Why such a bizarre sentence? the prisoner asked.

"'Two days for slandering our leader, and ten years for revealing state secrets.'"

Sidney Rittenberg and Amanda Bennett, <I>The Man Who Stayed Behind</I>
(NY: Simon & Schuster, 1993), p. 268.