USSR 1991

So poor Yakovlev was beaten and kicked amidst the outrage of the people, and even his glasses were trampled to pieces during the pushing.At this time, he finally understood that the anger of the people was no less than the suppression of violent machines.And the most hateful thing is that those executioners who he cursed a thousand times and ten thousand times in the article, when the police from the Ministry of Internal Affairs came to understand the situation, they just stood aside and chatted happily, without any intention of saving him.

Only then did Yakovlev realize that he was nothing without the protection of law and order.The people who had been instigated to oppose the Soviet regarded him as an enemy, and the law enforcement agencies that had criticized them unconscionably chose to stand by at this time and let the public knowledge who discredited them taste the taste of the dictatorship of the people.

When the crowd dispersed, Yakovlev, who was beaten so hard that he couldn't get up, lay half-lying on the ground, cursing a group of mobs and cursing the desperate police. People are good-looking.But of course Yakovlev didn't know that all of this was captured by the secret KGB with a camera. The emotional crowd, the police of the Ministry of Internal Affairs who extended a helping hand, and the beaten Yakovlev lay on the ground still looking angry His facial expression became the headline news in the newspaper tomorrow.

After being sent to the hospital for treatment, Yakovlev realized that he was not the only one who suffered, and those public intellectuals who were also slandered as co-authors of the Prohibition Law were also unlucky. He was pushed from the back and fell into the snow and couldn't get up, and was sent directly to the hospital like Yakovlev.

The well-known people have told everyone with personal experience, what will happen to annoy a nation that loves to drink vodka.

Taking advantage of the emptiness when he came out of the hospital, Yakovlev, who had his head wrapped tightly in a bandage, called Korodzic from a public phone booth, "Hello, Korodzic? I'm Yakovlev, and I want to say that you have I didn’t see that joint report, yes, that’s the one. We were tricked. I don’t know who wrote the so-called joint report, but I will definitely make him look good!”

Korodzic, whose mind was faster than Yakovlev's, clenched the receiver, avoided his family members, stretched the phone line, walked to the balcony next to him, and said to him in a low voice, "Yakovlev, could it be Haven't you seen it yet? There are no conspirators, it's simply government departments plotting against us!"

"What?" Yakovlev was visibly surprised to hear the news.

"Yes, the attacks on us public intellectuals will continue if I don't expect it. Oh, God, since the other newspapers were blocked, the Soviet Revolutionary Propaganda Department, which has an advantage in public opinion, has begun to slander us. They used the most opposed alcohol prohibition to pour dirty water on us. Now that the Soviet Union’s finances are so difficult, how could they give up alcohol, which is a lucrative income? Could it be that the government directly gave up a fraction of its finances? income? Do you really think that the government is an idiot who can’t see that the joint letter is fake?”

Korodzic continued to analyze, "You and I have to be careful, there will be various slanders and rumors attacking us. Of course, we have nothing to do, because no newspaper has issued our clarification statement, so the initiative is completely in the hands of the On Moscow, we are just lambs at the slaughter!"

"We want to mobilize the masses to demonstrate and oppose the government's interference in the news mechanism." Yakovlev said emotionally, "Maybe we go outside to demonstrate and let the masses know that we are innocent!"

Korodzic supported his forehead and said, "It's useless, Yakovlev. Based on what I know about Moscow, I'm afraid you will be surrounded by a group of mobs and punched and kicked before you go out on the street. The guys from the Propaganda Department are provocative." The level is even scarier than ours, and they should have joined forces with the Ministry of Internal Affairs or the KGB. They are responsible for spreading rumors, and the KGB is responsible for monitoring and observing our situation."

"If you don't want to surrender, run away. Anyway, the aid from the United States plus the application for asylum is enough for you to survive in the West. If you leave the Kazan Mental Hospital in this way, do you have any good results?" Korodzic hung up I got off the phone, wondering what Yakovlev's expression would be like when he heard the last sentence.

The violent machinery of the Soviet Union is no longer the direct and brutal punishment it used to be, but has become more cunning and without leaving traces.He forced you to the opposite side of the people, and then trampled you down in various ways. This is simply a tyranny of democracy!

Korodzic glanced at the letter on the table that had just been written at the beginning. The ink on the first sentence was not dry yet, it was just a concise title and a rather helpless sentence.

"Dear American Embassy, ​​I am Comrade Korodzic, a writer persecuted by the Soviet authorities..."

Chapter 93 The end of the public intellectual (3)

When Korodzic hurriedly applied for political asylum and went to the United States to enjoy the free Miami sunshine, the unlucky Comrade Yakovlev reported again and became the target of public criticism.The photos presented in the newspaper this time are somewhat intriguing. Comrade Yakovlev, who was beaten by others, refused the help of the police and looked at him with wide eyes, as if he was intentionally unreasonable.

The public opinion offensive launched by the Soviet official news media is more terrifying than the public knowledge. The story presented by the difference in the order of the photos is just another look.It seems that Yakovlev doesn't appreciate the government at all, and even blames him a little bit.

Yakovlev can no longer guess what the masses think. The only thing he knows is that he has completely become a laughing stock among the masses, or a public enemy who attracts hatred.

The Soviet Propaganda Department is destroying his life in an orderly manner, but Yakovlev is still helpless. He doesn't even dare to go out on the street, because once he gets to the street, people will point at him and whisper that this is the last time Newspaper editor mobbed for supporting Prohibition.

Except for Yakovlev, the lives of other public intellectuals are not much better.As the mouthpiece of the country, the Soviet Propaganda Department seems to have insisted on this group of people, and will not let it go until they are ruined.

What made Yakovlev the most difficult to accept was Korodzic’s farewell. He had successfully obtained admission tickets to open the gate of the United States through political asylum. Korodzic only told Yakovlev the day before he left. This makes the latter feel betrayed.

When seeing him off at the airport, Yakovlev still couldn't forget the last words Korodich said to him. He gave Yakovlev a hug, then patted him on the shoulder, and said softly, "Get out of here, we Not an opponent of the Soviet Union."

Yakovlev shook his head. Idealistically, since he learned about the Great Purge of the Soviet Union, he has single-mindedly devoted himself to dismantling this extreme regime and bringing real freedom and hope to the Russian people.

"Go, Korodzic, leave here and never come back. I will continue to work on your unfinished business until the evil regime is completely dismantled with the efforts of all of us."

Yakovlev's persistence seems to be a joke in the eyes of Korodzic, freedom?Everyone knows that they are just watchdogs for American public opinion to destroy the Soviet Union. Where did so much idealism and romanticism come from.But Korodzic couldn't bear to expose this, just smiled at Yakovlev and waved goodbye.

A few days later, as expected, Yakovlev saw Korodich’s infamous charges in the newspaper, including receiving aid from the United States, maliciously smearing and spreading rumors about the history of the Soviet Union, many of which were irrelevant to subverting the regime, but enough Let Korodzic notoriety.The newspaper said, "Since the public intellectuals demand that the government must treat the people with integrity, how can they maliciously discredit the history of the Soviet Union? If your democracy and your freedom are just to achieve ulterior goals by any means, then Please get out of this land and go to the West to work together, one day we will be glad that the right to speak in the country is not controlled by such a group of people."

"Damn the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, it's an unreasonable devil!" Yakovlev threw the newspaper on the ground and stepped on it a few times, which reminded Yakovlev that the newspaper had published a public homosexual Orientation, in this era when people are not tolerant of homosexuality enough to be published in newspapers, the report mocked this writer with a special hobby in the most vicious tone.And this writer had previously published an article insulting the Soviet Red Army in the Great Patriotic War, accusing them of not being killed by the Nazis.

Of course, the final result was that the writer jumped from the fifth floor and died on the spot.People always have to pay for everything they do, don't they?

This is the purpose of the Su Xuan Department. Since it is known to be unreasonable, don't blame us for being unscrupulous and cruel.

Yakovlev lay on the bed in such a daze every day, watching the clock on the table pass by every minute and being powerless, he lost his job and the trust of the people, except for the aid from the Americans. Nothing.But he knows very well that if this continues, even the Americans will turn away from him because he has lost his value.

"You have to find something to do." Yakovlev sat up, thinking slowly while holding his chin.

At this time, there was a knock on the door in the quiet room. Yakovlev got off the bed, walked to the door, glanced at the cat's eye on the door, and found two strange men standing outside. He asked vigilantly, "Who are you?" ah?"

The person outside the door took out his ID and aimed it at the cat's eyes, and said in a deep voice, "We are members of the KGB."

Will it always come?Yakovlev took a deep breath, he was ready to be a victim of Soviet persecution, whether it was the Kazan mental hospital or the so-called new Gulag, come on, let his blood awaken the bewitched people.

Yakovlev opened the door with a decisive look on his face. He said to the two gloomy agents at the door, "Is it a crime of subversion of state power? I'll just go with you."

"You have misunderstood, Comrade Yakovlev. We are not here to take you on an investigation," the KGB officer explained.

Yakovlev almost thought that he had auditory hallucinations in his ears, and people from the KGB came to the door in person. Could it be because of the suppression of freedom of speech?

"As you can see, our Soviet Propaganda Department needs to hire some people who are familiar with the United States and the Western world to serve as the editor-in-chief of the newspaper under the Propaganda Department. We would like to ask Comrade Yakovlev if you are willing?" One of them cast a glance Yakovlev's messy room, he said unhurriedly, "Of course, if you want, the newspaper under the Propaganda Department will cancel the accusation and public opinion offensive against intellectuals, and we will give you a better house to facilitate your work."

"Recruitment? Become a pawn of your violent machine? Go ahead and dream!" Yakovlev said disdainfully.

"We don't need you to sing the praises of the Soviets, we just need you to report on the things in the United States, um, especially the real negative news. Oh yes, actually your friend Korodzic has agreed to cooperate with us, using the excuse of political asylum Hiding in the United States to collect negative news for us, of course we paid him a very handsome salary."

The words of the KGB personnel fell like a bombshell on Yakovlev's heart, double agent?Korodzic's face became blurred in Yakovlev's mind. Thinking of his meaningful words before leaving, Yakovlev realized that Korodzic was really willing to do anything for money.

On the one hand, with the salaries of the Americans, he portrayed himself as a representative against the Soviet persecution; on the other hand, he secretly took the rewards of the Soviets, and sent the negative news of the United States to Moscow in detail.Yakovlev smiled wryly, Korodzic, my friend, you won, and you won with great glory.

The bureau set up by the Soviet Propaganda Department was really clever, so clever that Yakovlev felt that he was an out-and-out fool at this time.

"Forgive me, Comrade Yakovlev." The always unreasonable KGB actually reasoned with Yakovlev, "You really think that your colleagues are fighting against totalitarian rule, you are wrong, They just want to share a considerable amount of cake in the political game between the United States and the Soviet Union. Whether it is the Soviet Union or the United States, as long as they can give enough benefits, these people will use their fame among the masses to become whoever The watchdog of the family. The ideals you stick to are nothing but insignificant things in the eyes of others, not even worth a ruble on the ground."

"Also, nearly half of the public intellectuals have accepted the conditions we offered, and are willing to report the dark deeds of the United States for us and expose the dark side of American society to the Soviet people. They are not really for democracy, but through these means to obtain more benefits.”

"Stop talking!" Yakovlev interrupted the KGB staff's eloquent talk, "Please stop talking!"

When he realized that everyone was pretending to be stupid and only he was really stupid, it was just like Yakovlev's desperate eyes.The agents had only seen the expression of the broken spiritual pillar in the prisoners in the secret KGB prison.

"I will not promise you to be your accomplice, never will." Yakovlev's tone was very calm, as if he had become unusually calm after experiencing heart-piercing pain.

Surkov asked Yanayev before, what if these people don’t accept our conditions and continue to be stubborn, Yanayev’s answer is very simple, completely defeating the spiritual beliefs of these people, even if they don’t want to Even if you devote yourself to the great construction of socialism, you will not be able to turn up the slightest storm.

"That's a pity. Let's go first. Take care, Comrade Yakovlev, the Soviet is with you." The two KGB officers politely exited Yakovlev's room.

Yakovlev sat on the ground a little slumped, broken faith is tantamount to emptying a person's soul.Reminiscing that I have been running around for so long for the freedom of the Soviet people all these years, but what I got in return was an idealistic deception.

Yakovlev opened the drawer, and there was a revolver in it. He had imagined that one day the KGB people would come to his door and he would use this pistol to shoot himself heroically, but he didn’t expect that he picked up this pistol and collected money not for freedom. Dedicated to justice, but chose to die because of the broken ideals.

"What kind of bullshit democracy, what hypocritical freedom, go to hell! You are the same as totalitarianism!"

After Yakovlev wrote this short will on paper, he picked up the loaded pistol, stuffed the barrel into his mouth, took a deep breath and closed his eyes.

Chapter 94 The Soviet invaders are back

Unlike the idealist Yakovlev who ended his life tragically and tragically, Korodzic, who has both sides for his own interests, was praised by the Western media just like Solzhenitsyn when he came to the United States.They portrayed Korodzic as a tragic hero who opposed the totalitarian rule of the Soviet Union, and he received flowers and applause from the people in Miami.He was also invited to give a speech at a university in the United States, telling how he had "struggled" against totalitarian rule in the Soviet Union over the years, and mentioned his good friend Yakovlev by the way.Even Time magazine did a publicity issue about Korodzic.On the cover, Korodzic, with melancholy eyes and a bearded face, has become a tough guy like Hemingway.

On the surface, Korodzic stood firmly against communism, but in fact, through his hands, all the negative news that happened in American society was continuously transmitted back to the news newspapers in Moscow.

Unlike the glorious Korodzic, Yakovlev’s funeral was desolate and desolate. This true liberal has become a tragic figure no one wants to see. The former ally has turned into the government In front of the lonely tombstone, there are only the representative of the Su Xuanbu Department holding a bouquet of white flowers, and the green coniferous pine bent by the snow.