![]() And it was not limited to the GDR but found throughout all of the Soviet areas of influence – the fictitious radio station was there often called ‘ Armenian Radio‘. Therefore someone invented the fictitious radio station Radio Yerevan and jokes that always followed the same schema: ‘ Radio Yerevan was asked‘, ‘ Radio Yerevan answered: in principle yes, but…‘.Ī typical joke would be like: ‘ Radio Yerevan was asked: Can one drive at a speed of 180 kilometres with a Lada car on a Russian motorway? Radio Yerevan answered: In principle yes, but only once’. ![]() ![]() During the times of a split Germany, it was impossible to criticise the government of East Germany without serious consequences – if you were living in the GDR. The funny thing is that I first heard about Երևան, the capital city of Armenia, by jokes.
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