Русскоязычная версия http://proza.ru/2016/01/20/2288
The case was in the seventies of the last century in the Smolensk region.
A peasant's house in the village has a lopsided log house, which looks like it will collapse ...
The man is a lonely pensioner, for a long time he asked the chairman for a horse, to go to the forest, to bring already sawn and processed logs.
Chairman to him: either tomorrow, or not ...
And that man was an artilleryman back in the First World War ...
And when our troops retreated in the forty-first year, he rolled an abandoned, ownerless 45-caliber cannon into a barn, covered it with hay, until better (worst) times.
After that it's simple...
Once again, having received a refusal, he loaded the cannon, rolled out and carefully (fortunately it was a day off and there was no one in the building of the collective farm administration)fired on the corner of the building.
The police arrived. They took the grandfather and the gun.
The matter is not easy.
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