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	GDR jokes - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation GDR jokes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		GDR jokes - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation GDR jokes.
		With widespread censorship of literature, the media and the arts, political jokes were one of the main outlets for internal criticism of the German Democratic Republic (East Germany).
		Common formats included the Radio Yerevan-style joke (Q&A, starting with "Question to Radio Yerevan...") and a three-way comparison of the US, USSR and GDR (or their leaders), with the GDR coming off worst (or at least, most absurd).
	www.encyclopedia-glossary.com /en/GDR-jokes.html (359 words)

	wiki/GDR jokes Definition / wiki/GDR jokes Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Laughter, the intended human reaction to jokes, is healthful in moderation, uses the stomach muscles, and releases endorphins, natural happiness-inducing chemicals, into the bloodstream.
		Common formats included the Radio YerevanRadio Yerevan, or Armenian Radio jokes were very popular in the Soviet Union and in other Communist countries of the ex-Eastern bloc since the second half of the 20th century....
		The US, the USSR and the GDR want to raise the TitanicRMS Titanic (also SS Titanic) was the largest passenger steamship in the world at the time of her launching, and her builders hoped that she would dominate the transatlantic ocean liner business.
	www.elresearch.com /wiki/GDR_jokes (942 words)

	Encyclopedia: Radio Yerevan
		A joke is a short story or short series of words spoken or communicated with the intent of being laughed at or found humorous by the listener or reader.
		A typical format of a joke was: A joke is a short story or short series of words spoken or communicated with the intent of being laughed at or found humorous by the listener or reader.
		Within the Soviet Union, the range of jokes covered all standard matters subject to humorous interpretation: mother-in-law, sex, national stereotypes, etc. A joke is a short story or short series of words spoken or communicated with the intent of being laughed at or found humorous by the listener or reader.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Radio-Yerevan (4176 words)

	Hans Modrow (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Hans Modrow (born January 27 1928 in Jasenitz, now in Poland) served as one of the last leaders of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) and as of 2003 functions as honorary chairman of the Party of Democratic Socialism.
		He had a long political career in the GDR, including periods as the First Secretary of the SED in Dresden in 1973 and as a member of the Volkskammer.
		He held the office of Prime Minister of the GDR from the resignation of Willi Stoph on 13 November 1989 until the free elections in March 1990.
	encyclopedia.jigyasa.in /wikipedia/h/ha/hans_modrow.html (201 words)

	ostalgie
		Recognizing GDR neologisms as what made East Germany so “unmistakable,” the GDR dictionary (www.ddr-woerterbuch.de) is an on-going project that solicits “typical GDR terms and coinages” in order to build a database to preserve this “dying language.” Or, for a few GDR-style laughs turn to www.ddr-witz.de, the address for over 500 GDR jokes.
		The indisputable granddaddy of the “GDR Retro-film” is Leander Hausmann’s debut Sonnenallee (1999).
		In The Powers of Speech: The Politics of Culture in the GDR David Bathrick argues that the GDR’s ideology of progress was based on a critique of cultural modernity in both its avant-garde and mass cultural forms, the only alternative to which was a rejuvenated national culture.
	www.somasoma.de /14/ostalgie.html (1787 words)

	Abstract (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		In the GDR this meant - in the 1950s - that the nearly totally destroyed centre of the city was planned according to socialist ideas.
		Generally the city image of Rostock was important for the international representation of the GDR and therefore the city got many advantages especially in terms of planning, restoring and economic provisions.
		On the occasion of 750th jubilee the building of the 20.000th new flat in Rostock was in the same way medially put on the stage as a broad offer of consumer goods in the shopping malls, which should symbolize the high standard of living.
	www2.iisg.nl /esshc/abstract2.asp?id=2637 (1118 words)

	Culture of the German Democratic Republic - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Every four years an international Bach competition for keyboard and strings was held.
		With widespread censorship of literature, the media and the arts, political jokes were one of the main outlets for criticism of the German Democratic Republic (East Germany).
		Political jokes of this form have almost disappeared since reunification as they no longer play the same subversive role, being replaced by open democratic debate, political cartoons and satire.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Culture_of_East_Germany (419 words)

	Business Software Review : Article 'Radio Yerevan' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Template:Wikibookspar Radio Yerevan, or Armenian Radio jokes were very popular in the Soviet Union and in other Communist countries of the ex-Eastern bloc since the second half of the 20th century.
		Once established, this "headline" became a standard format of many QandA jokes, and it is often difficult to recognize what was the original format of the joke.
		A further problem, or asset, with these jokes is that as many were passed from ear to mouth, they changed accordingly over time.
	www.business-software-review.org /DisplayArticle933486.html (456 words)

	East Germany - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The German Democratic Republic (GDR) (German: Deutsche Demokratische Republik), also commonly known as East Germany, was a communist state that existed from 1949 to 1990 in the former Soviet occupation zone of Germany.
		Although the inter-German border was largely closed by the mid-1950s (see GDR border system), the sector borders in Berlin were relatively easy to cross.
		In the night of August 13, 1961, East German troops sealed the border between West and East Berlin, and started to build the Berlin Wall, literally and physically enclosing West Berlin.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/East_Germany (4689 words)

	Joke culled from a recent trip to Poland [rec.humor.funny] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Joke culled from a recent trip to Poland [rec.humor.funny]
		The Eastern European art of the political joke is in abeyance in Poland right now, because what previously had to be veiled can be, and is, said out loud.
		However, in the GDR and in Romania freedom of speech hasn't broken ground yet.
	www.netfunny.com /rhf/jokes/89q4/lastforev.707.html (210 words)

	Goethe-Institut Montreal - Information and Library - Information on Germany (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Jokes about naive Ossis and arrogant Wessis are popular even among teenagers, in spite of the fact that many of them cannot even remember the divided Germany.
		Jokes about Ossis are not dying out, and Daniel Herold (17) thinks that is not such a bad thing.
		Today, many things are being brought back, like kindergartens and the central school-leaving certificate.” Alexander was twelve when his father and his brother lost their jobs in the reunified Germany.
	www.goethe.de /ins/ca/mon/inz/ind/en94193.htm (1101 words)

	GDR
		When I read CAD I thought it was a great idea and style, but I was pissed at the characters for being in love with the xbox and hating gamecube and ps2 (they're coming around, as is Tim Buckley, but they're still a little biased towards xbox).
		And I wanted more jokes about anime and final fantasy and ddr and wanting to be japanese.
		And James was telling me that penny-arcade was like CAD but with jokes about anime and final fantasy and wanting to be japanese, so I check it out.
	mywebpages.comcast.net /special.k/2003/08/this-will-be-first-post-i-make-from-my_28.htm (317 words)

	Germany: Ostalgia for the GDR
		Gerhard thinks Ostalgia reflects "the rejection of the new society by a steadily increasing number of East Germans, who are so desperate they forget the shortcomings of the GDR." Maxim justifies "a legitimate desire to defend a lifestyle that has disappeared" but also refers to "memories of a GDR that never existed".
		She thinks reunification marked "the beginning of the end for the welfare state" and sees a similarity between "the present stagnation of the GDR and the Federal Republic of Germany in the 1980s".
		The GDR was awash with democratic process, flyers, meetings and demonstrations.
	mondediplo.com /2004/08/04ostalgia (2698 words)

	How the GDR became cool
		'The GDR lives on!" So runs the tagline for Good Bye Lenin!, Wolfgang Becker's film about a young man, Alex, whose mother falls into a coma in the late 1980s, only to reawaken a few months later after the fall of the Berlin wall and the reunification of Germany.
		After an initial binge on the forbidden fruits of capitalism, the East Germans are feeling a vague dissatisfaction with it and are returning to their roots.
		Germany may be reunited, but with unemployment at 19% in the east, nearly double that of the west, the country's two halves are still not fully integrated.
	www.buzzle.com /editorials/7-24-2003-43371.asp?viewPage=1 (626 words)

	GDR jokes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		With widespread censorship of literature, the media and the arts, political jokes were one of the main outlets for internal criticism of the German Democratic Republic (GDR, East Germany).
		Common formats included the Radio Yerevan-style joke (QandA, starting with "Question to Radio Yerevan...") and a three-way comparison of the USA, USSR and GDR (or their leaders), with the GDR coming off worst (or at least, most absurd).
		The USA, the USSR and the GDR want to raise the Titanic together.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/GDR_jokes (305 words)

	TUD : Vorlesungen Wintersemester 00-01 - Comment:
		This seminar will be devoted to a study of an era in the history of the German language that is distinguished by significant historical conditions and aspects of language policy.
		The basis for linguistic analysis will be compiled from previously unresearched textual and spoken material from the GDR era.
		Examples include political speeches, political propaganda ("Der schwarze Kanal"), Stasi documents, party and sectarian newspapers, cabaret, film, songs, colloquial usage (jokes, popular expressions, etc.), youth language, the language of the Monday Demonstrations, scientific language and lexicography.
	www.tu-darmstadt.de /vvss03/comments/02.534.en.tud (177 words)

	new books in german (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		In each chapter, Rusch describes a separate incident, with stories ranging from her earliest experiences to her adolescent feelings and her obsession with leaving the country.
		Rusch evokes the problems and contradictions of growing up in the GDR with a gentle humour that allows the pain to show through.
		Jokes about bananas -- they weren't allowed in the GDR and had to curve their way around it to reach other destinations -- alternate with more melancholy cameos.
	www.new-books-in-german.com /aut2003/book20a.htm (361 words)

	GDR jokes Definition / GDR jokes Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		[click for more], political jokes were one of the main outlets for internal criticism of the German Democratic RepublicEast Germany, officially the German Democratic Republic (GDR), German Deutsche Demokratische Republik (DDR), was a Communist Party-led state that existed from 1949 to 1990 in the former Soviet occupation zone of Germany.
		The GDR was proclaimed in the Soviet sector of Berlin on October 7, 1949.
		After reunificationSeveral articles deal with the theme of reunification: Chinese reunification German reunification Irish Reunification Korean reunification Polish reunification Cyprus reunification Vietnam reunification Yemen unification...
	www.elresearch.com /GDR_jokes (420 words)

	GDR (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		We recommend this article: GDR - 1, and also this: GDR - 2.
		GDR is one of the topics in focus at Global Oneness.
		Gerson Therapy (Gerson dietary regime, GDR, Gerson method, Gerson treatment): A state of the art, contemporary, wholistic and natural treatment which assists the body's own healing mechanism, according to the Gerson Institute, in Bonita, California.
	www.experiencefestival.com /gdr (487 words)

	GDR - Links
		The ring for pages about the GDR; all homepages that can be entered are listed in a link list.
		Everything about the association for the support of the GDR everyday culture.
		Biographies, reports on the GDR, photos, speeches, songs and news.
	www.grenzschild.de /links2.htm (448 words)

	2000.mbox: [Jokes] Titanic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Previous message: Russell Coker: "[Jokes] Fwd: Joke: Jokes October 9"
		The USA, the USSR and the GDR wanted to bring up the 'Titanic' together.
		the technology, and the GDR was interested in the band that continued playing
	snoopy.apana.org.au /~bam/archives/jokes/2000/0177.html (139 words)

	Good_bye_Lenin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Even in the GDR, there are not only young princesses on ice and...
		General Secretary of the CC of the SUG and Chairman of the GDR's council of state.
		Maybe the GDR I created for my mother, was the one I would have liked to have.
	www.divxmoviesenglishsubtitles.com /G/Good_bye_Lenin.html (4963 words)

	Barbelith Underground > Conversation > "These two dissidents walk into a pub..." - Humour under dictatorships
		The GDR army are all in the construction industry now, the beggars are tour guides.
		There was a paper about Jewish jokes under the Nazis that I read a while back.
		It was followed by Jacob the Liar with Robin Williams, the remake of the old GDR classic about the owner of a small shop in the ghetto who pretends to have a hidden radio-receiver and regularly tells his terrified fellows uplifting news about approaching German defeat that he allegedly learned from the radio.
	www.barbelith.com /topic/19884 (1203 words)

	Morepen GDRs net Rs 72.5 cr- The Times of India (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Each GDR will have 10 underlying shares of Rs 2.
		The company’s GDR could secure around 12 per cent premium over its Friday close Rs 13 per share.
		Company spokesperson said that the proceeds of the GDR issue would be utilised to retire the high cost debt.
	timesofindia.indiatimes.com /cms.dll/articleshow?art_id=41985710 (315 words)

	Through the wall
		Within Germany, the unemployment rate in the former GDR, or East Germany, is higher than in areas of the former West Germany.
		But we were never told anything positive about the GDR, so we had these cliches and jokes -- like they don't have bananas -- that demonized the GDR.
		Predictably, former West Germans are more materialistic -- "They like their car more than their kids," jokes Becker, 49, who also grew up in the west -- while those from the east, new to capitalism, are conservative financially and have jobs that generally pay less.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2004/03/07/PKGVO59GC91.DTL&type=printable (969 words)

	BBC - German Steps - Gifts and souvenirs
		The isolation of the GDR meant that its economy, infrastructure and its consumer goods developed independently from the rest of the world.
		However, after reunification and the dismantling of the GDR, many of these objects obtained a cult status, in part due to their limited availability and in part due to the fact that they capture the spirit of a bygone era.
		They were very basic mass-produced cars and prone to breakdowns, as catalogued in the many Trabbi jokes that Germans still tell.
	www.bbc.co.uk /languages/german/lj/cultural_notes/gifts.shtml (368 words)

	Re: Any one have good Mercedes Jokes??? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		He enters the building and begs: "I am >a poor guy from the GDR, I do not have much valuta and now my car broke >down.
		The Mercedes driver behind him realizing the situation that he has created courtesly shuts his air conditioning off so that the Trabant can overcome the head wind created by the Merc's AC cooling fan and begin moving again.
		As with so many good jokes the best of the humour can be diluted in the translation.
	www.talkaboutautos.com /group/alt.auto.mercedes/messages/175883.html (300 words)

	More Eastern Block humor -- GDR [rec.humor.funny] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Joke from East Germany, heard on recent trip to Berlin: One sunny day on the North Sea a creative little boy was playing in the sand trying to decide what to make.
		He discovered some Scheiss (you can guess what that is) on the beach so he decided to make a VoPo (People's Policeman).
		If you don't know: Scheiss in English would be the same word where ss=t, c=e=NULL.
	www.netfunny.com /rhf/jokes/89q2/vopo.382.html (230 words)

	A sensitive portrayal of East Germany's collapse Good Bye Lenin--a film by Wolfgang Becker
		In a later scene, Christiane’s former boss describes her as “too idealistic,” which in the GDR usually connoted someone who was not prepared to swallow the twists and turns of the official party line.
		Instead of simply stringing together a series of “Ossi” (slang term for East German) jokes and going for an easy belly laugh, the film plays it straight, allowing the humour to develop out of the dilemmas in which Alex and the other characters finds themselves, in trying to maintain their fictional GDR.
		Christiane believes in socialism—which for her means defending the little person, improving the lot of ordinary people, especially children—but she is far from being a mindless follower of the bureaucracy.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2003/sep2003/good-s04_prn.shtml (1780 words)

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