The film depicts the revolutionary agitation of the Red Army in an openly sarcastic way; when the Soviet government saw itself caricatured, the film was banned in a week after its 1929 release in Ukraine, and then was never released in other republics of Soviet Union. Featuring a camel as one of the main characters and mocking Bolshevik bureaucracy and fanaticism, as well as the White Army's kleptocratic pomposity in the Civil War, this adroit farce is one of the best examples of early Ukrainian comedy.