In the motherland we have a card game called DURAK. This means you are idiot. When you lose the game you are the moron. Nikolay and I were play game with cards in sector 13. Most time, Komandir Vasik would patrol the workers in the factory. Today however he was found not anywhere. We did not want him to see us playing cards and drinking vodka. However, the day was long. Nikolay and I needed break and it is how we unwind (let's face it who cares if you do any real work. you get paid under Stalin either way. glory to communistic regime!). So Nikolay and I are drinking. I take a 2 of club from my deck (it is the trump card) and I put it on his king of spades. I beat him! I am out of cards! He is idiot! As punishment, he needs to drink. We play again, this time, trump card is hearts. He beat me the second time asshole. I drink and then put the glass down on table. I look longingly at the the hearts of the queen which he beat me with. The red reminds me of my country. It reminds me of my homeland. I finger the hammer and sickle patch on my official chernobyl uniform on my left arm and shed a tear. I suddenly stand up and shout "Slava to Stalin!" Nikolay also get up. He jump on train as expression is. "Slava to Stalin!" we shout together. We are brothers.
