“Did you know Barack Obama has Polish blood? Yes, his grandpa ate a Polish missionary”
This is a ‘joke’ I heard in Poland last week. It was attributed to Poland’s Foreign Minister (!), Radek Sikorski. The politician later had to explain that he did not actually tell the joke, he only used it as an example [...]
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