[forum-prof] poder do humor

[Lilia Irmeli]

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George Mikes, a Hungarian humour writer, claimed that
the secret police actually invented jokes themselves,
so as to better control popular sentiment.
Some political jokes even reflected the ideological differences
between communist regimes: Hungarian and Polish political
leaders liked to collect jokes about themselves, where
East Germans liked to collect the people who told them.

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>From Economist.com - Jan 28th 2009
Budapest
Iron Curtain memories
Celebrating twenty years since communism's fall