Sasha Zaichik has always wished to become Stalin's Young Pioneer. The night before he becomes a Pioneer his father unexpectedly is hauled off to prison. Sasha has always admired the great Stalin but when he holds the banner for a parade he makes a mistake, breaking the statue of Stalin, but he only broke one part of it, it's nose. When it's finally time to say he broke the nose, his classmate, Four Eyes takes the blame because his parents are in Lubyanka prison where he would be taken to. But what Four Eyes doesn't know is that his parents had already been executed.
In the end Sasha realises that he doesn't really want to be a Pioneer, he would rather see his father.
I like the picture of the nose smoking a pipe.
It looks like Gogol's character from his book The Nose.
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