"Russian reversal" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2015, TJ Edmister, “Re: Interesting phraseology”, in sci.lang.japan (Usenet)",
          "text": "Sounds like a Russian Reversal. \"In Soviet Japan, life lives YOU!\"",
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          "ref": "2015, Danny Katch, Socialism . . . Seriously: A Brief Guide to Human Liberation, page 35",
          "text": "Decades ago comics like Yakov Smirnoff used to do “Russian Reversal” jokes: “In America you can always find a party! In Soviet Russia, party always finds you.”",
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          "ref": "2016, Choi Chatterjee, Lisa A. Kirschenbaum, Deborah A. Field, Russia's Long Twentieth Century",
          "text": "Smirnoff's popularity has waned since its high point in the 1980s, but the Russian reversal enjoys a vibrant second act as an internet meme, and it has shaped an image of late Soviet life as harsh and impoverished […]",
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        "A form of joke that reverses the subject and object of an ordinary statement, claiming to describe the situation in Soviet Russia, e.g. \"In Soviet Russia, television watches you!\""
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