Сон: Чапаев на пляже

Я стою на пустынном пляже, руки в боки, и, щурясь на солнце, оглядываю окрестности. Со мной ещё двое. Наконец кто-то из нас троих произносит: "И на фига этот идиот Чапаев снова распахивает Куршскую косу на своей тачанке?"




I am standing on a deserted beach, arms akimbo, surveying the seaside. There are two other people with me. Finally one of us says, "Why the heck is this idiot Chapaev plowing the Curonian Spit on his tachanka again?"

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Vasily Chapaev is a historical character turned cult figure of the Soviet era folklore and a hero of numerous off-color (but many of them very funny) anecdotes. The Curonian Spit used to be a border zone, and during the Soviet rule its dunes were indeed regularly plowed by tanks, in order to expose any tracks crossing this strip of land.