>>This idea of people being happiest when they know their place occurs in literature so many times (and in unexpected places) that I think its rate of circulation is not negligible.
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>Soviet people are the happiest people in the world. I knew it all time, though I guess that Yugoslavian people were also the happiest?

Well, apart from the times when I was unemployed, it was a fine life. Wouldn't know of USSR, I was there only as a tourist and full of money for once in my life (sold some jeans etc - you probably remember how that went), and despite my best efforts to stay away from the sheep and the tourist guide, didn't actually learn much on how people really live.

Though, as far as happiness goes, there was a joke about there being three kinds of Serbs from Lika (in Croatia): the happy, the smart, and the crazy. The happy was Jovanka (Tito's wife), the smart was Nikola Tesla.