Diaboliad is a satirical story by the famous Russian writer, playwright and theater figure Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov (1891—1940). Comrade Korotkov serves as a clerk at a match factory and is quite confident in the future. But one fine day the plant employees are told that there will be no salaries-there is no money. And after a couple of days they still give me a salary, but not in money, but... in matches.
