(2nd watch on the 15th, good night everyone)

A recent political cartoon by the British BBC has attracted the attention of many in the international community, and Yanayev is depicted wearing a crown and holding a scepter in front of a cage where his former opponents and enemies are staying. The name of the comic is "The New Tsar of the East?" At the end, a big question mark was used, implying that Yanayev used anti-corruption to crack down on those dissidents.

The parody of the country's top leader caused indignation among the Soviet people, especially after Yanayev regained the popularity of the people by striking at the bureaucrats. Although the image of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union has not changed much, the vast majority of people have begun to identify with the supreme leader, and Yanayev's image-building propaganda has been successful, thanks to the fact that Yakovlev did not continue to play the role of Soviet pig teammate.

Of course, Yanayev didn't care about the BBC's sarcasm, in fact, he also thought about the scene if he wore a crown on his head and was admired by everyone. Of course, as a staunch communist, this idea was confined to his mind. Still, he motioned for JoongAng Ilbo to publish an article refuting the BBC's political cartoons.

"As a 'mouthpiece' dedicated to promoting democracy and freedom, the BBC has made a great contribution to the sharing of the world's equality, and in their hype, Ngo Dinh Diem and Park Chung-hee are both representatives of democracy and prosperity, and Baviel and Battista are all symbols of the free world, of course, these American-supported spokesmen of the free world are ultimately buried under bullets or exiled from the countries he controls. A top leader who is committed to improving people's livelihoods, fighting corruption, and establishing a society based on the rule of law has been criticized as a dictatorial and brutal image, and I wonder how the BBC's double standards define democracy and freedom. 'Freedom, how many evils have been done by your hand', of course, the BBC will be appropriately blind to ignore the words of the French revolutionary Madame Roland. Because they are originally a dog loyal to the party, not someone who really speaks for the people. ”

After the article came out, it caused an uproar in public opinion, and it was the first time that such a direct slap in the face of the BBC was the first time, so everyone was looking forward to the BBC's rebuttal, but the latter was silent, as if he had nothing to say, and deliberately avoided the topic.

Of course, Yanayev will not quarrel with these fast Western journalists, and in his opinion, it is a foolish thing to humbly accept the opinions of journalists who disagree with the president, and he does not believe that these unscrupulous mouthpieces without the slightest scientific knowledge can expect them to say those fair words, journalists? It's just a matter of selectively letting you know the so-called truth.

And there was something more important on Yanayev's mind: the September political purge in Moscow was finally coming to an end, and as the political turmoil gradually stabilized, a group of people in the Soviet high-level political circles who were on the wrong side were exiled to the ice and snow of Siberia to be the company of polar bears, and a group of people who were not so lucky, who were sentenced to death for the huge amount of money they embezzled. And the kind that was mentioned by Yanayev himself.

"Chernovilkin, former Minister of Gas Industry, sentenced to death and deprived of political rights for life."

"Medezhensky, former deputy minister of the metallurgical industry, sentenced to death and deprived of political rights for life."

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These high-ranking officials, who were supposed to become Russian oligarchs in the future, have ruined their political careers because of Yanayev's accidental crossing, and they may have resented Yanayev in their hearts, but when they think of this man's iron-blooded methods and his control of the KGB, the largest terrorist organization in the entire Soviet Union, everyone will know each other and keep their mouths silent.

The turning of the machinery of state violence, the gears crushing the democratization process that Gorbachev had accumulated for several years in just one month, and then crushing the steel tracks to show everyone that Soviet Russia does not need your disgusting and hypocritical democracy, nor does it need your strange and distorted values in the West. Yanayev has an even more terrible weapon of domination than theirs.

Legal.

Therefore, in the past few days, countless officials have been sent to the "communist gallows", and they will be sent to the execution table after passing the verdict of the first and second trials of the court, and those who are as if they have already known the end, and the whole process of the verdict has maintained a state of empty shell of the soul being stripped away, and some still have a trace of illusion and appeal against those who are not convinced by the verdict, but the result is often to uphold the original verdict. And those who were lucky enough to escape the gallows also got a sentence of 10 years in prison.

In the past few days, countless high-ranking officials have been sent to the execution ground to be shot, just like the Great Purge decades ago, and many people have been deprived of their lives by bullets without much opportunity to defend themselves. Yanayev gave them the opportunity to defend themselves, but I left your case to plead while I upheld the original verdict. I give you the opportunity to speak, but I also have the right to judge.

Shevardnadze looked at the old friends who used to sit together and laugh and talk in the newspaper as the remains of black-and-white photographs, and he couldn't help but clench his hands bloodlessly, and his lips were white, and he remembered what Yanayev had said to him before leaving, and his heart had the most instinctive sense of fear.

"Seriously, Shevardnadze, I have a slight affection for you, you are indeed a good person, but you have chosen the wrong path. If you can stop after you resign as foreign minister of the Soviet Union, I will not be guilty of the past. But if you still want to fight back, I'm sorry, we can't guarantee the safety of you and your family. ”

Yanayev's words were already obvious, but Shevardnadze continued to make waves in the political arena with his previous status, and he wanted to unite with the remaining democrats to oppose Yanayev's dictatorship, but only a few days after the meeting, most of those people became black and white portraits in the photo.

"You won, Yanayev, from my political allies to my friends and even my family, are you trying to force me to submit in this way? It's really despicable and effective, you don't want to do it yourself, so you forced me to commit suicide, you really have a hand. Shevardnadze opened the drawer of his desk, took out a Makarov pistol from it, and said to himself while stuffing bullets into the magazine, "There is nothing more painful than watching the important people around me lose one by one, Yanayev, are you warning me that the next one is my family?" Your torturous methods are indeed novel, and I will let you get your wish once. Probably only if I die, so that you are willing to let go of the people around me. ”

The resolute Shevardnadze put the muzzle of the gun in his mouth, closed his eyes, and said silently, "Goodbye, everyone, but the great cause of freedom does not stop there. ”

Then his index finger, attached to the trigger, slowly bent down.