The idea of a satirical story ripe Valentin Kataev in winter 1925, when the period of the NEP, the Soviet government began a determined struggle against embezzlement and theft. In January 1926, on this occasion it was a special decision of the Central Committee of the RCP (b). Demyan Bedny made in "Pravda" January 8, 1926 with a poem, "All right ", Which ridiculed philistine cravings for "luxurious life", the desire to snatch a piece...