Stories written by Oleksii Dubrov

The Russian Soldier’s Code of Honor

It all began the day before the baptism of Rus’ several hundred years ago, when the last self-proclaimed Cimmerian, on his 999th birthday had a coming-out and decided to be a Russian…

The Universal Flood

“What idiot said paradise was a good place?” The Nazi rolled his eyes

Deus ex Ucraina: The Fire

They probably won’t forgive Ignat Yemelyanov this time around…

The Son of Heaven

Noah’s arm was fiercely shaking as he tried to raise the wooden mug of beer to his mouth…

The Ark, Nazis, and Toilet Paper

“USSR? Russian? Mein Freund!” With these words, Hans kissed the frightened Belarusian three times on both cheeks, ending with a celebratory “Heil Hitler!”…

Deus ex Ucraina

On that day, the sound of exploding shells whistling as they crashed into the center of Moscow woke me up…

Failure of Faith

Since the time when Total Fairness was established in Europe, Abraham had never again seen the sun on the streets of Paris…

Mature Ukraine

One icy December night the devil landed in St. Petersburg, the capital of the Russian Empire…

Ivan Fedorovich from Moscow

“I told you from the very beginning it was a bad idea to come to this mudhole…”

The Epistle of Baltic Hippies

May 1972 turned out to be surprisingly sunny and warm in Kaunas…