Then again, Yugoslavia was quite different from the other "Eastern" countries in the years of the Cold War. You may well honor Tito for that ...
As for humor or the lack thereof, well, saying that people who do not share one's own sense of humor do not have any, that I have always found to be somewhat presumptuous. But I agree, authoritarian rulers are by and large not known for appreciating jokes about them.
Interestingly, Belarus (which is probably worse than Russia) does not issue any circulation coins. Hmmmm.

Christian