[lifestyleguru]

The birthday party with Stasi members dressed up as the individuals they spy on is really brutal, the costumes themselves were likely confiscated from their victims. Stereotypically confirming that "German sense of humor is not a laughing matter". There is always a brutally cynical undertone in their jokes.

[1718627440]

Are you just taking internal jokes of a repressive regime as representative for a country?

[lifestyleguru]

Most of bureaucrats of any 20th century regime, first or second half the century, remained working within country's structures after the fall of the regime. If not for government officially, then at least in law, debt collection, or security industries. The general attitude hadn't changed only because the regime failed.

[DonHopkins]

British jokes can be deadly, too!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeMnPyusuBE