Zhizn' i neobychainye prikliucheniia soldata Ivana Chonkina - Voinovich Vladimir Nikolaevich

Ivan Chonkin is one of the most beloved characters of Russian-language literature. It can be compared only with the Czech "colleague", a brave soldier Schweik, but even this absurd hero loses to Chonkin in the improbability of adventure and absurdity of the surrounding (Soviet) reality. What just doesn't happen to this stunted warrior! Stalin and Hitler learn about his incredible adventures, at the same time he is sentenced to death as an ardent enemy of Soviet power and an honorary award for selfless service to the Motherland. Chonkin becomes an unwitting participant in terrible behind-the-scenes intrigues and, in the end, gets to America itself!