The comrades at SovLit.com have posted a new translation of a Mikhail Zoshchenko story. Hooray!
The narrator of "Honest Citizen", his speech somewhat impaired by drink, attempts an official-sounding denunciation of moonshiners. ..not because they're producing an illegal product, but because they won't let him have any on credit.
But, well, if it comes to that, I wasn’t tormenting the poodle; I was just swinging the dish.
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