"Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprang up."
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
"Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real."
~ Jules Verne
Yu-Mex
In 1948, the Yugoslav leader Josip Broz Tito (May 7, 1892 - May 4, 1980) broke up with the Soviet leader Iosif Vissarionovich Stalin (Dec. 21, 1879 - March 5, 1953).
Yugoslav authorities had to look somewhere else for film entertainment. They found a suitable country in Mexico: it was far away, the chances of Mexican tanks appearing on Yugoslav borders were slight and, best of all, in Mexican films they always talked about revolution in the highest terms. How could an average moviegoer know that it was not the Yugoslav revolution?
The Mexican influence spread to all popular culture: fake Mexican bands formed and their records can still can be found in flea markets today.
Milić Ljubomir and Paloma:Divorce/Ballad of Sad Life
My wife is talking all the time
how I just drift around
and don’t care about her
that I come home at the dawnWhat can I do
when beautiful women are after me all the time
and at least one
is pulling me by the shoulderEvery morning when I return home
my wife bables to the evening
Oh, enough!
I’ll apply for divorce!
