The country in which the “brake fluid is drunk” and “growing milk yield” is growing, was not called Flanders at all It was supposed to be a rock opera. As the poet Gennady Kononov wrote on another reason: “Everything is on Chekhov: deaf and head. // Everything is in winter and deaf. // But Zigzag Rock-n Roll pierced // into the slush of the brain through the left ear.