Chapaev leaves his regiment to check on another part of the front line and asks Petka to write down everything that will happen in a notebook. Chapaev is back in a week. There's one entry in the notebook: "Shovel broke." Chapaev, satisfied that nothing terrible happened, asks Petka:
- Was everything okay?
- Yeah, just the shovel was broken.
- How did the shovel break?
- During the dog burial.
- Did the dog die? How?
- Well, it ate too much fried horse meat.
- Where did she find so much fried horse meat?
- In the burnt-out stable.
- What?! Our stable burned down?!
- Well, Furmanov threw a cigarette butt, so it caught fire and burned down.
- But he doesn't even smoke!
- How can you help not to start smoking when the banner of the regiment was snatched…?
Tags
animal jokes
broken shovel
burnt stable
Chapaev
domino effect
funny story
Furmanov
lost banner
Petka
Russian joke
smoking
war humor
