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There's a great one at the start of Slavoj Zizek's Welcome to the Desert of the Real: In an old joke from the defunct German Democratic Republic, a German work
by ksrm 10y ago
There's a great one at the start of Slavoj Zizek's Welcome to the Desert of the Real:
In an old joke from the defunct German Democratic Republic, a German worker gets a job in Siberia; aware of how all mail will be read by censors, he tells his friends: “Let’s establish a code: if a letter you will get from me is written in ordinary blue ink, it is true; if it is written in red ink, it is false.” After a month, his friends get the first letter, written in blue ink: “Everything is wonderful here: stores are full, food is abundant, apartments are large and properly heated, movie theaters show films from the West, there are many beautiful girls ready for an affair—the only thing you can't get is red ink.”
- 67726e 10y agoIf we're telling DDR jokes, I always loved the joke from Das Leben der Anderen[0]: Honecker walks into his office, looks out the window and says "Good morning, dear sun!" and the sun replies "Good morning Erich!" At lunch Honecker walks to the window and says "Good afternoon, dear sun!", and the sun replies "Good afternoon Erich!" Finally, at the end of the day Honecker walks to his window and says "Good evening, dear sun!". But the sun doesn't say anything, so he says once more "Good evening, dear sun! Is something wrong?". The sun finally replies, "Kiss my ass I'm in the west now!" [0] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8vDQaAYaQg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8vDQaAYaQg