East Germany jokes - Information from Answers.com
Jokes in the German Democratic Republic (GDR) frequently included political characters (e.g. Erich Honecker), the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) and ...
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Culture of East Germany - Information from Answers.com
1 Socialist Realism; 2 Music; 3 Johann Sebastian Bach; 4 Theatre; 5 Cinema; 6 Television; 7 Material Culture. 7.1 Consumerism; 7.2 Architecture. 8 GDR jokes ...
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Whisper joke - Information from Answers.com
In the GDR, whisper jokes ridiculed the main board of the party, how the state was run (elections, ...
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Little Johnny - Information from Answers.com
Little Johnny jokes are about a small boy who likes to ask embarrassing ... see German humor and GDR jokes · Greece: Totos (Τοτός) , Bobos (Μπόμπος); Italy: ...
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Duroplast - Information from Answers.com
The use of duroplast in Trabants gave rise to an urban myth that Trabant is made of corrugated cardboard, as evidenced in numerous GDR jokes about Trabant.
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East Germany - Information from Answers.com
The German Democratic Republic (GDR; German: Deutsche Demokratische ...... In East Germany, people who were disgruntled resorted to nasty jokes at the ...
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Trabant - Information from Answers.com
This helped the GDR to avoid expensive steel imports but, in theory, did not ... Wartburg, a GDR manufacturer of larger saloons, also used a DKW engine: a ...
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Erich Mielke - Information from Answers.com
... 15 East German jokes about Mielke; 16 Honours and awards; 17 References ..... Mielke resigned, along with all of the other members of the GDR government ...
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Stasi - Information from Answers.com
Wilhelm Zaisser was the first Minister of State Security of the GDR, and Erich Mielke .... for such reasons as trying to leave the country, or telling political jokes.
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German humour - Information from Answers.com
English-language jokes do not translate well because German grammar is less ..... which in strict limits was allowed to make fun of grievances within the GDR.
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