(1st Update)

It was perhaps the most shocking day in the American press, as a story titled "The Western Hoax - Restoring a Real Soviet Leader" made the headlines of major Western newspapers, and the article was signed by Mike Wallace, a well-known American news host. No one doubts the weight and veracity of this report, for when Wallace was invited to cover the Soviet Union, almost all friends of the press came to pay tribute to his great feat.

In Wallace's report, Yanayev is no longer the dictator that everyone in the West fears, and his friendly and amiable image jumps out on paper, and Wallace even wrote of Yanayev in the newspapers, "God gave the Archangel the sword because he knew that love and peace could not solve all disputes." And Yanayev's entire analysis of the dark history of the United States is exposed.

What the audience sees on the screen is a country leader who is full of wit, especially his outspoken talk about all kinds of ills in American society, which is supported by the American masses, and some people even think that Yanayev should not stay in Moscow, he should stay in the White House, and Bush, who will only start a war to consolidate his position, will be ousted.

There was also another person who was not in a much better mood, and Solzhenitsyn, who was caricatured by Yanayev as a Russian tsarist, was finally caught by his American counterparts. Perhaps because of the common problem of being contemptuous of literati and not being accustomed to the limelight, columnist Antony described Solzhenitsyn as a religious extremist fanatic, using the profession of "social conscience" to attack freedom and human rights, when in fact his conscience has long been thrown down the drain.

And the publication of his new book on the Soviet Tsar has been repeatedly postponed because of this turmoil.

Some people are sad and some people are happy, and Wallace won the Pulitzer Prize again with this excellent report, which the judges praised for portraying a flesh-and-blood Soviet leader from a new perspective and showing the world a very different side of him.

Perhaps Yanayev himself did not know that the unintentional act of this interview made him inadvertently the most watched national leader in the United States, and some people joked that if Yanayev was willing to give up his position as president of the Soviet Union to run for president in the United States, he would have received a much higher number of votes than Bush, the executioner who started the war.

The wave of Yanayev-style worship set off by the American people is inextricably linked to the sluggish economic development of the United States, but of course, the official US report on Wallace has been silent and has not made any reaction. After all, at this time, Bush was still angry, and who would not report such a long-term report on such a thing that would increase the morale of others.

Yanaev, who saw the report, also specially called Wallace from Moscow to congratulate him, and at this time Wallace was conducting an interview on the "60 Minutes" program on television, and when he heard the assistant in the field saying that there was a call from Moscow, he decisively asked the assistant to move the phone to the studio and have an old friend-like conversation in front of millions of viewers.

"Hey, Mike, my friend, how are you doing?" Yanayev, who spoke Russian English, greeted Wallace, unaware of the fact that he was holding the phone, thinking that he was just talking to Wallace in private.

Wallace made a silencing gesture to the surrounding audience, and the others held their breath and quietly listened to Wallace's free play. He held the microphone and replied, "Of course, my friend, guess where I'm talking to you right now?" ”

"Huh? Not in your studio. Yanayev asked curiously.

Wallace, who had been holding back, laughed out loud at this time, and he said, "Clam, that's right, I'm in the studio at this time. Our call was watched by millions of viewers across the country, why don't you say hello to them? ”

"Hello, everyone. I'm sure you know who I am. Of course, I am the Soviet tyrant that you call a verbal critic, and of course I don't think I'm brutal at all. Maybe your U.S. government's perception of the Slavic nation is skewed, although we can overturn a polar bear with our bare hands and put a bottle of vodka on our heads, but that doesn't mean that we are not peace-loving. Yanayev's humorous self-deprecation made the audience laugh, making people think that the person on the other side of the phone was just a humorous old friend, not the leader of a country.

The director behind the scenes looked at this scene and couldn't help but smile triumphantly, the ratings of tonight's "60 Minutes" program must be the highest among all the same programs, and with such a heavyweight guest in charge, maybe it can break through the record high.

"Is there anything that everyone present has to say to the Soviet leadership? This may be the only time you've come into close contact with a country's president? Wallace held up the microphone and asked the audience around him.

Of course, many people wanted to take the plunge, and almost everyone present raised their hands, and Wallace picked out a skinny young man with glasses, and said to him, "Do you want to say anything to President Yanayev?" ”

"Except for my personal privacy questions, I will try to answer everything else I can." Yanayev said cheerfully, "Hey, friend, what's your name?" ”

"Kane, just call me Kane, Your Excellency." The young man held the microphone and asked a little nervously, "President of the Soviet Union, I wonder if you will implement the same democratic system as ours?" Or has it always been the supremacy of the leader's power? Is it really a dictatorial state, as our government advertises? ”

Yanayev smiled and said, "Hey, friend. I think you have a little misunderstanding of the Soviet system of government, don't always believe what the government says, what they say is indeed the truth, but not necessarily the truth that the government wants to tell you. We have the Presidium of the Soviets, which, like you, the United States, adopts a system of meritocracy, and as for the leadership rights you mentioned, they can only be voted on through collective discussion in the face of major events, not that I alone can say the final word. This is unfair to people who have other opinions. Moreover, from my current term, the Supreme Chairman will not be a system of life, and we will issue clear rules on how many terms the Supreme Chairman of the Soviets can serve, and how many years each will be in office. Usher in a new era of leaders in office. ”

"We think that democracy is good, it means that we can talk more about the underlying discourse, and that we can regulate our behavior, and that the Soviet Union has made some mistakes in its history, and we have reflected on it. In the same way, I believe that democracy in the Soviet Union must be based on a complete and well-established legal system, and that both the supreme leaders and ordinary people must be judged for violating the law. He will not be pardoned because he is privileged, nor will he be judged by public opinion because he is a vulnerable group. ”

"The impressive success of American democracy is largely due to the foundations of the law. It is true that we also have to decide the system according to our own actual situation, and any democracy that is divorced from reality is just a mirage, just like South Korea, like South Vietnam, they are also American-style democracy, but it does not prevent the supreme leader from being a dictator. Have more questions? ”

"I wonder what will happen to the soldiers scattered in Afghanistan? Is your government really going to get them all back? The lad asked another question.

"Haha, I don't know if you remember that six years ago you released a movie "First Blood 2" that smeared the image of the Soviet Union, which was the movie in which Rambo, the star at the time, was betrayed by his boss in order to investigate the missing soldiers on the battlefield in Vietnam. He said a very famous phrase at that time, and I still remember it to this day, 'I love my motherland, but does my motherland love me?' Although I don't know if the United States has searched for missing soldiers in Vietnam in reality, I hope the Soviet Union will never play out the plot of the movie. I came to see my friend Wallace this time, hoping to ask Western humanitarian relief organizations to help find those lost soldiers in Afghanistan. ”

At this point, Yanayev's audience had become quiet, silently waiting for him to continue.

"I want to say to these children in the desert who are waiting day after day for the army to come back and greet them, the war is over, come home with me, the motherland and your mother have not forgotten, they have been waiting for you to come home."