The chicken plague and the sanitary cordons that foreign countries established against it were seen as a parody of the ideas of internationalism and the Entente policy against it. Although Bulgakov was not repressed, from 1925 he was questioned by the GPU several times and was never allowed to leave the Soviet Union, possibly as a result of his negative image, which was at least partly from the publication of The Fatal Eggs.
The chicken plague and the sanitary cordons that foreign countries set up against it were viewed as a mockery of internationalism and the Entente policy. Although Bulgakov was not repressed, from 1925 he was questioned by the GPU multiple times and never allowed to leave the Soviet Union, possibly due to his negative public image, which at least partly stemmed from the publication of The Fatal Eggs.