Stories M.Zoshchenko twenties generated a plume of imitations in popular fiction. Officious writers of the 1930s. also often turned to subjects Zoschenko, trying to transform them so that they conform to the ideological canons of the Stalin era. Thus, M. Koltsov in his keynote speech on the tasks of the Soviet satire on the First Congress of Writers (1934) includes a variation on the theme of the story Zoshchenko "Gift" ("The story of the scoundrel"). In this general sense works Zoschenko reduced, finished the story turns into a rough template for newspaper satire on a particular material. Another example of deconstruction in a Soviet plot Zoschenko can be found in the essay Koltsov "Three days in a taxi" (1934). "Little experience" to verify the integrity of Soviet citizens to the story inspired by the essayist Zoschenko "live bait" ("An honest citizen"). Packages bait for which the heroes Zoschenko Koltsov and catch the thieves are very similar in appearance, but their contents are fundamentally different. Behind it there is a difference in views about the nature of the human writers of the Soviet era.