The way I heard it, the advance of a company of Russian soldiers was being hampered by

[Atticus]

a Ukrainian pouring rifle fire from a small bombed-out building.

"Who will get rid of this pest?" the Russian captain asked, and soon an eager volunteer snuck up on the building and rushed inside. A single shot was heard and the captain smiled, assuming the Ukrainian was dead. But, the Russian volunteer did not return and rifle fire at the company resumed.

The captain sent two more volunteers to kill the Ukrainian and this time there were several shots and some screaming, but the volunteers never returned.

Enraged, the captain hand-picked an eight-man squad and ordered them to annihilate the Ukrainian. They charged into the house and, after a couple of minutes of shooting and hideous wailing----the rifle shots again began peppering the Russians.

In shock, the apoplectic captain sent an entire platoon after the Ukrainian sniper. Mayhem ensued inside the wrecked building---dozens of gunshots and screams until finally, one seriously injured Russian was seen crawling back toward the captain while mumbling something. When he was nearly all the way back to safety, he raised his head one last time and---wild-eyed---croaked "Go back! Go back! There's TWO of them!"

[Wicked Blue]

1. Good one!

[halfulglas]

2. Ha. Hate to tell you how old this joke is.

I first heard it in the '60s. Different armies, but exactly the same story line. It was told so often that one only had to say the phrase, "there's two of them" and everyone would laugh.

But then all the best jokes are recycled and actually timeless.

[Atticus]

3. I first heard it in the 60's also and, yes, some jokes are worth recycling with a

little updating.

[TlalocW]

7. That was number five!

MST3K fans will get it.

TlalocW

[IronLionZion]

4. It's based in truth

a pair of snipers working together from different positions can be very deadly

[wryter2000]

5. How about this true story?

A Ukrainian woman was rescuing pets. She found a husky and took it to a vet. Turned out she'd rescued a wolf.

[txwhitedove]

6. Yes, heard that on Nicole Wallace show. The woman actually tackled the wolf

[Crowman2009]

8. Looks like the Russian army is getting a taste of their own guerilla warfare medicine.

Of course this isn't the red army of yesteryear. More like the absolute failure known as the Russian imperial army from the first world war.

[Martin68]

9. Excellent!

[FakeNoose]

10. When I originally heard this old story, it was a Finnish sharpshooter

... that wasted an entire regiment of Russian soldiers.

"Go back! There's TWO of them!" was the punchline.