Tashkent here.

Hail and well met, comrade shipgirls!

Must've been a gruelling trip, coming all the way here from the Black Sea.

Pretty much.

...heh, that joke won't work on me.

Another anekdot*, isn't it? Literally "anecdote" in Russian.

Awwww, you figured it out. Yes, that was a joke.

it's not like I have anything to hide.

Ack-hahaha...

You know your face is twitching, right, Comrade?

Can't be helped though, I got posted here to be a commissar after all.