A short story from Spiegel on how West German
BND agents collected political jokes of the East Germans. A brief and amusing read...
a glimpse:
"What would happen if the desert became communist? Nothing for a while, and then there would be a sand shortage."
and of course, jokes carried their own risk:
"There are people who tell jokes. There are people who collect jokes and tell jokes. And there are people who collect people who tell jokes."