actually people bash their government in just about any place.

I know some great Russian jokes about their leaders.

like one about Nikita Khrustchev: (I don't recall this exactly so I'll ad lib it)

Medical convention:
Americans: we have the greatest medical breakthroughs, we can reattach any severed limb without any problem, or even make artificial limbs that function like the real thing
Japanese: Our electronics make our medecine the best, we make the best and smallest pacemakers and artificial hearts.
Russians (Soviets actually): that's child's play, Russian doctors found an ass, put ears and a nose on it and he's been running the country for (X) years.

(you'll think this is funny if you've even seen pictures of Khrustchev, he really does look like he has an ass for a head)


The thing is that government bashing is actually a good thing, because if we just followed whatever our leaders say like a bunch of stupid Nazis....
well you know what happened in the time period from 1934-1945.
According to Thomas Jefferson a true patriot is not one who listens to government 100% but one who is alert to corruption and tries to fix it.