A Triumph of Justice

Алексей Браницкий
   (Adventures at the battle fields)
   Victor Petrovich lives in Zadryschensk. Zadryschensk is the town which locates from the east of Ural. Victor Petrovich gets the medal "For the capture of Timofeevka" from the goverment of the country. Victor Petrovich lives in Zadryshchensk for many years.The town's factories were destroyed and sold by criminal elements.Instead, hypermarkets were built that sold a lot of alcohol and cigarettes. Vegetable shop only had beetroots and birch juice on holidays. There was no buckwheat, sausages and sweetened condensed milk in grocery stores.
   And in the grocery stores of Timofeevka there was buckwheat, sausages and sweetened condensed milk. But Timofeevka was a town in eastern Ukraine. The authorities explained to Victor Petrovich on TV that this was unfair.
   Victor Petrovich, by order of his commander, got into the tank and brought freedom to the grocery stores of Timofeevka. Now Timofeevka is a town in the west of the Empire. Perhaps temporarily. But the Timofeevka grocery stores now also doesn’t have buckwheat, sausages and sweetened condensed milk too. Justice has triumphed!
   Victor Petrovich and his friends are proud of the patriotism that brought freedom to Timofeevka.Victor Petrovich’s comrades received scarce goods and benefits from the government. On the holiday they were given a several boxes of beer, a box of vodka, and a box of "Prima" cigarettes. They were also given a new color TV-sets so they could watch Vladimir Solovyov’s and Olga Skabeeva`s patriotic programs and listen to songs about Vorkuta snow or Vladimir Central Prison on chanson TV.
   New houses and blocks of flats will someday be built in Timofeevka, but for now they will be proud of their victories and admire their government, which is leading them to the universal triumph of justice - the kind that is shown in military-patriotic television programs.
   And those who survived after the "liberation" of Timofeevka talk in whispers about their adventures on the battlefields.