Chapter 32: The Incoming Judgment (Part II)
The third more
Vladislav Surkov, in the historical timeline, was supposed to join Menajet Bank two years ago, and then, under the promotion of Holmes, he entered the decision-making body of the banking group in 1992 and became a member of the board of directors. However, because of another coincidence, he met Vice President Yanayev, and then resolutely resigned from the top management of the bank and became a secret staff member of Yanayev.
No one knows what Yanayev said to Vladislav back then, but after that meeting he became Yanayev's most loyal follower and political aide, and advised Yanayev on his next actions. In 1991, no one was optimistic about this young man, only Yanayev knew how unattainable the guy would climb in the future.
Deputy Head of the Office of the President of Russia, Deputy Prime Minister of Russia, and a conspirator who manipulates the State Duma are known for many names, and one of his most famous titles is the "Chief Political Strategist of the Kremlin" named by his opponents in the White House. ”
After executing Pavlov, who had betrayed the supreme instructions of the Soviets, Vladislav instructed the KGB agents to fake the scene as the scene of Surkov's suicide, move him to the driver's seat, and then lean his head on the steering wheel, holding the pistol that had pierced his head in his right hand. Anyway, this is the most remote part of Smolensk, and no one will notice that a high-ranking leader has fallen here.
After the incident was over, Vladislav made a phone call to Yanaev, saying that the game that had been laid out before could be closed, and that the remaining fish that slipped through the net did not have much opportunity to rejoice. In the days following Vladislav's dismissal of Pavlov, high-ranking government officials were secretly arrested by the KGB at Soviet international airports, and those who had applied for political asylum were taken away by members of the disciplinary committee before they could leave their homes. And as soon as those people walked on the front foot, someone behind them immediately filled their vacant positions.
All of a sudden, the people often saw such headlines in the newspapers: "The secretary of the municipal party committee who endangered national security has now been arrested," "The traitors of the Soviets committed suicide in fear of their crimes," and "The work of the central authorities in building a clean and honest government has risen to a new height." These headlines appeared in the newspaper alongside a speech by Yanayev at the conference.
"Heresy, yes. We call these people the waste of society, the traitors of the Soviets, the heretics of communism. They only care about their wallets and the little abacus in their hearts. Ignoring the interests of the Soviet people and the safety of the whole country, they desperately hoped that the country could turn into their own property that had belonged to the Soviet people through the so-called changes, which in fact they hoped for in the political upheaval. Such a person, I only give him two words, garbage. Subtle, this passage is really subtle. Yanayev's direct remarks earned him a lot of applause from the people, and for that alone, he was better than the former leaders of Gorbachev and Khrushchev. By the way, I also heard that the editor-in-chief of the Moscow newspaper was hesitant to put it in the headlines because of Yanayev's words? Haha, what a bunch of stereotypical and boring guys. ”
Yakovlev, head of the Propaganda Department of the Central Committee of the CPSU, was sitting in a chair, slowly sipping his coffee, reading the news in the newspaper, especially praising Yanayev's seemingly unpretentious speech, not paying the slightest attention to Putin, a member of the Discipline Inspection Committee, who was sitting directly across from him, and the KGB personnel standing around.
As one of Gorbachev's few confidants, the accumulation of crimes of conniving at the liberals and suppressing the propaganda of the positive image of communism was enough to send him to the gallows, and Yanayev waited until the time of the political purge to treat him as a turtle in the urn.
Putin picked up his newspaper and threw it aside, looked at the Gorbachev henchman, and said slowly, "Political correctness has never received much more applause than radical rhetoric, and you say, 'We will fight corruption to the end,' or 'We will hang all those corrupt officials on the street lamps of Red Square,' which has more support?" Yakovlev: You have been the head of the Soviet Propaganda Department for so many years, you don't even have this common sense, right? ”
"My task is to destroy this regime on the high ground of public opinion, not to maintain his authoritarian rule as you do. Comrade Putin, people like you I can only call slaves of power. Yakovlev retorted bitterly.
"It's useless to talk too much, whoever can have the last laugh, who can stand without falling. The buzzing of flies is not enough to shake the advance of the Soviets, and you will fall under our iron fist. Putin retorted, "What have you cultivated?" Let a group of corrupt bureaucrats refute us under the banner of freedom, but we are doomed to fall like a group of dying people who should be sent to the cemetery. Don't worry, after you leave, we will bury you with great glory and glory. ”
Putin's last words were vicious to the extreme.
"You ......" Yakovlev, who was older than Putin, blushed, he was humiliated by his juniors for the first time, and wanted to refute something, but finally he sat down in his chair weakly, and said hatefully, "Then I also wish you never to be like me, and tell Yanayev that I will wait for him in court and in hell." ”
"You think too much, here, there will be no court at all, and there will be no trial."
Putin's words gave Yakovlev a sense of foreboding.
Putin, who was sitting opposite, nodded, and the KGB personnel standing behind Yakovlev took out a thin invisible rope from his pocket, and when he was not paying attention, he tightly strangled Yakovlev's neck, in an instinctive reaction, Yakovlev grabbed the hand subconsciously, but found that he couldn't break free at all.
Putin sat next to Yakovlev and admired Yakovlev's struggle with great interest, "Yanayev knows that if you are sent to court, those forces who support you will definitely act to block the trial, and the end result may be that you spend a few years in prison, and then come out and continue to obstruct the government." Only when you die, those who are lucky will be completely desperate and dead. ”
Yakovlev's eyes widened, and his hateful eyes wanted to devour Putin's whole life alive, he stretched out his hand to grab the other party, but Putin grabbed him and pushed him back.
"I forgot to tell you that I used to be a KGB agent, so you might as well save some peace of mind and go on the road. Also, according to the previous agreement, after you die, I will arrange the scene to look like you will hang yourself, so that you can still retain the last bit of dignity. And you, too, will be treated to a high level of funeral standards. ”
"It's the last bit of compensation for you, as a traitor, you should be happy to get this fate, Yakovlev."
When Putin said this, Yakovlev had stopped struggling, his pupils slowly dilated, and his hands hung weakly on the seat, but there was resentment, malice and unwillingness in his eyes. He believed that he would die at the hands of Yanayev, but he didn't expect it to be such a humiliating way to go away with hatred.
Putin picked up the noose and threw it to the KGB agents, and said indifferently, "Hang Yakovlev from the ceiling, and then decorate the scene before exiting the room, this is what you are best at, remember, decorate it as much as possible to look like a suicide scene." ”
In the evening, Moscow television received shocking news that the head of the Soviet Propaganda Department had committed suicide at his home that afternoon, and that members of the All-Union Communist Party Committee would attend his funeral. Yakovlev's death brought the purge of government members to a climax. For the first time, those officers who couldn't sleep at night realized what a happy thing it was to be arrested by the KGB, because you had no idea what day you would inexplicably die at home and then be branded as suicidal.
The political turmoil brought about by Black September continues, everyone is praying to God with their eyes closed, and only the members of the disciplinary committee are traveling around the country to collect evidence of their crimes and send those who have not yet been punished to be rehabilitated in Siberian prisons.