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- I heard this one a few years ago in East Germany.....
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- Erich Honnecker (the president of East Germany) was invited to Moscow
- by Gorbachev for a visit. After weeks of preparation by Gorby,
- Honnecker arrives in Moscow. As part of of celebration activities,
- there is a big parade through the streets of Moscow.
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- While the two are watching the parade, Gorbachev takes a small boy
- aside and asks him, "Who is your mother?" The child repiles, "Mother
- Russia." "And who is your father?", asks Gorbachev. The boy answers,
- "Why, its you Uncle Gorbachev!". Finally Gorbachev asks the boy, "and
- what do you want to be when you grow up?". The boy proudly replies,
- "a good communist!".
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- Erich Honnecker, meanwhile, has been watching this and is very
- impressed. So impressed, that he decides to invite Gorbachev to
- [East] Berlin for a visit. Again, after weeks of preparation,
- Gorbachev's plane lands in Berlin. And again, part of the celebration
- includes a parade.
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- Remembering what Gorbachev did in Moscow, Honnecker repeats the scene:
- He asks a little boy in the crowd, "Who is your mother?" The child
- replies "the GDR [German Democratic Republic--East Germany]." "And
- who is your father?", asks Honnecker. "Why, its you Uncle Honnecker!",
- replies the child. "And what do you want to be when you grow up?"
- queries Honnecker. Without hesitation, the boy replies "an orphan."
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