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Needs Must When the Devil Drives
Zmitser Dashkevich
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It's all the same; the petty tyrant is taken by his moustache and thrown into a bucket.

Here is the story how Arkady goes against the people.

- Just take a look! , one of guys in a sawmill says me laughing and points to the department.

–What is going on? I'm smiling in anticipation of a good joke and open the department's door almost facing the foreman.

- Oh, God! I would have hung this thing only in the toilet! spitted out and pointed to the makeshift barrack.

I was really interested with it. Arkady, the life and soul of the party and also known as Sirotka, was standing next to a woodworking machine. Sirotka, a man of middle age, flail his arms happily and tell a young man the story. As soon as I come closer I also start smiling - there is a picture of a man with mustache and foxy comb-over.

- Arkady, are you nuts?! and I cannot but laughing, it looks really fantastic in 2016.

- What?! - Arkady yells with joy, - Just look! What nice mustache!

- Ok, why do you need it here? I ask him in more serious manner, thinking that it was hung up here for occult purposes.

It is like in Stalin's times criminals made tattoos with an image of "the Father of the Peoples" in hope that during the cleansing they won't be dispatched. Although both those with tattoos and without them were dispatched, the tradition of tattooing the chest with Koba image was popular until the XX party congress. Now some people follow the same logic, although the only way to survive is to hay with the criminal, to say nothing of his image on the wall. I am ashamed to say here I observe the logic of a slave.

But Arkady is an unpredictable person. He mysteriously smiled and explained his desire that I put here in more or less literary form:

- So what! Dimon, this moustached cockroach has been kicking us all around during 20 years! And we are as quiet as a mouse He's been rushing us for 20 years!

- Twenty two, I said.

- Well, twenty two! Dimon, he's been kicking us around for 22 years and we still keep silence! Well, my respect! - Sirotka pointed to the picture.

I guess nobody has used the picture with such approach. And I had to surrender being impressed to the bottom of my heart. Who might argue with such cast-iron logic?!

It would be boring if it was the end. However, it was only the beginning. The climax happened a few days later, when I came to the department again. As soon as I enter it, you know, I look for the picture first of all. I was really surprised when I did not find it.

- Arkady! I laid down my arm on his shoulder. - Where is the moustached cockroach?!

- Well, Dimon, Arkady Sirotka says with sham sympathy, - people got furious and threw the parasite away!

- What?! - we are both laughing.

- I could not resist the people! Needs must when the devil drives!

"Needs must when the devil drives" has been known for centuries, however, there is a petty tyrant, who tries to go against the people. First, their images are even tattooed in the chest or hang up on walls. They think it is because of popular passion. Perhaps, it is true for the first ten years. But then it is done because of mockery and sarcasm.

Then the petty tyrant is taken by his mustache and thrown into a bucket. If he manages to take to heels, only his image will be thrown into a bucket. But, many of them did not succeed to escape. Lest someone want another scenario, the life proves: needs must when the devil drives!

Zmitser Dashkevich, especially for charter97.org

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