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→Joke about workers in the Soviet Union
In the former [[Soviet Union]], a popular joke was that the workers pretended to work and the Soviet Union pretended to pay them.<ref>[http://ipezone.blogspot.com/2015/08/you-pretend-to-work-putin-pretends-to.html You Pretend to work and Putin pretends to pay you]</ref>
In the former [[Soviet Union]], a popular joke was that the workers pretended to work and the Soviet Union pretended to pay them.<ref>[http://ipezone.blogspot.com/2015/08/you-pretend-to-work-putin-pretends-to.html You Pretend to work and Putin pretends to pay you]</ref>
== Jiang Qing was tough, humorless and unfeminine ==
Jiang Qing was [[Mao Zedong]]'s wife and he entrusted her with leading the [[Cultural Revolution]]. Mao directed her to lead efforts as far as attacking his opposition. She said of herself, "I was Mao's dog. When he said to bite, I bit."<ref>''The Culture of Power: The Lin Biao Incident in the Cultural Revolution'' By Qiu Jinpage 148</ref>
[[Richard Nixon]] wrote about Jiang Qing. "Jiang Qing was tough, humorless, totally unfeminine, the ideal prototype of the sexless, fanatical Communist woman".<ref>Madame Chiang Kai-Shek: China's Eternal First Lady By Laura Tyson Li, page 411</ref>
Margaret MacMillan in her book ''Nixon and Mao: The Week That Changed the World'' wrote that Jiang was "humorless, self-righteous, capricious and vengeful."<ref>''Nixon and Mao: The Week That Changed the World'' by Margaret MacMillan [https://books.google.com/books?id=hbM5bm28S2QC&pg=PT272&lpg=PT272&dq=Jiang+Qing+humorless&source=bl&ots=nEvKqH692g&sig=mUewHD5d-REsqnFPWbxF8JX3aoE&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiIhOmDkb7QAhUBUCYKHecsDk8Q6AEITTAK#v=onepage&q=Jiang%20Qing%20humorless&f=false]</ref>
== North Korean ban on sarcasm ==
== North Korean ban on sarcasm ==