East Germany Jokes
Jokes in the German Democratic Republic (GDR) frequently included political characters (e.g. Erich Honecker) and mundane life dealing with economic scarcity.
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Famous quotes containing the words east, germany and/or jokes:
“Biography is a very definite region bounded on the north by history, on the south by fiction, on the east by obituary, and on the west by tedium.”
—Philip Guedalla (1889–1944)
“The tears I have cried over Germany have dried. I have washed my face.”
—Marlene Dietrich (1904–1992)
“He left behind, as his essential contribution to literature, a large repertoire of jokes which survive because of their sheer neatness, and because of a certain intriguing uncertainty—which extends to Wilde himself—as to whether they really mean anything.”
—George Orwell (1903–1950)