Chonkin lived, Chonkin is alive, Chonkin will live! Ordinary soldier Ivan Chonkin finds himself in ridiculous situations during the Great Patriotic War: he unknowingly takes policemen prisoner, shoots back at his own people. Who is he? The hero of the funniest political satire of the Soviet era. Over time, the bitterness of political revelation disappeared, but the funny Chonkin survived Soviet power to the point of tears!