[Jolly Amaranto]

In late 1981, I spent a few weeks in Vienna, Austria teaching a class on maintaining the computer based equipment that the company I worked for was selling behind the Iron Curtain. Because it was difficult to get our technicians on site to work on the systems, we were able to gather a number of techs from Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania and Czechoslovakia to meet in "neutral" Austria for the class. After the class was over, we organized a celebration in a private room at a restaurant in the Grinzing District of Vienna. After a delicious meal we sat around drinking and telling jokes. In about every joke these guys told, the butt of the joke was the Russians. They hated them.