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This article is devoted to research on semantics, pragmatics and linguistics in the satirical novel «Golden Calf». The author attempts to explain the difference between «new people» and «old people». The difficulty lies in social class and even in class warfare. The article shows how in soviet society live normal people, and how hard and difficult is their life. The article shows that for upper classes the phrase «I cannot» did not exist but on the other hand for the lower classes it was only a dream. Summing up the article aims to explain how people lived in Russia at the turn of 20s and 30s of XX century.