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While the Soviet Propaganda Department was busy with propaganda and demonstrating the military strength of the Soviet Union, another headache was placed in front of Surkov, Solzhenitsyn, who had been adrift overseas for a long time, and was also the author of "The Gulag Archipelago", made a request to return to Moscow, which could have been directly refused, but Surkov received an order from the supreme leader to take good care of Comrade Solzhenitsyn.

In Surkov's view, this "take good care" is as unpredictable as a pun, and it stands to reason that Yanayev maintains a 100% aversion to public intellectuals who destabilize the country and fabricate facts, and it can be said that if you meet him, he will definitely throw you directly into the concentration camp in Volkuta and let you have a good labor camp. But Yanayev, who dared to speak the truth, adopted a policy of softness, and he even allowed them to criticize the authorities' practices, but the only thing that was not allowed was to incite the crowd against the existing system, which was Yanayev's unavoidable bottom line.

So Solzhenitsyn was like a hot potato, thrown in front of Surkov. Whether or not to let him come back is just a word from the authorities, but the Soviet Propaganda Department has become a little difficult in terms of propaganda. You can't call this guy who was expelled from Russian soil a Hero of the Soviet Union.

When Surkov wanted to find Yanayev to ask, the other party just said something inexplicable, just feel free.

"It's good to be casual, it's a very casual thing."

Surkov always found it more difficult to speculate on the general secretary's mind than to see the successful launch of the N1 rocket, but in the end Yanayev gave him a hint.

"If it were the Soviet Union of 1991, Solzhenitsyn would have been a figure who would have to die, but can the populist factions and the speculative capitalists who have been severely suppressed by the government still hope to form a force that threatens the Soviet regime?"

When Yanayev said this, Surkov finally came to his senses. Solzhenitsyn's views have become irrelevant, and the Soviet Union has consolidated power not only in Russia, but even in all the member states. Allowing Solzhenitsyn to return to Moscow for a visit became a sign of the Soviet government's openness and openness, after all, he was an enemy of the entire CPSU in terms of cultural awareness.

Solzhenitsyn, a stubborn diehard, was much more noble in Yanayev's eyes than an intellectual who worked for money, and although he did not agree with Soviet communism and American capitalism, at least what he said came from the heart, not like those moths who talk about money, saw their homeland collapse with their own eyes, and then triumphantly slipped a piece of the pie from the rotting corpse like a maggot.

"I understand, General Secretary Yanaev. Solzhenitsyn's return represents more of a political signal that the USSR was able to tolerate the guys it hated at the time, so who else would dare to say that there is no freedom of speech in our country. ”

Surkov was not very interested in the Nobel Prize-winning author, and as an anti-socialism and communism, it showed more of an ideology-form-form in the service of politics. It is no wonder that Yanayev would disdain to say that since ancient times, only poets and literati have made no contribution to the development of society.

After Solzhenitsyn's request to return to the Soviet Union, the Soviet Embassy in the United States quickly replied, and the Soviet authorities agreed that Solzhenitsyn should return to Moscow and be personally received by the General Secretary of the Soviet Union. The American media, who originally wanted to lay a trap on the plot of "return to rejection", were dumbfounded, who would have thought that Yanayev would have such a hand behind his back.

When Solzhenitsyn set foot on Moscow soil, even Surkov himself was present to greet the dissident. After the persecution of the Stalin era, the brief revival of the Khrushchev era, and the endless nightmares of the Soviet governments that followed, Solzhenitsyn stood for the first time on the soil of his homeland. Surrounded by a strange and familiar Russian language, a teenager presented Solzhenitsyn with a bouquet of flowers.

This was an exceptional reception for intellectuals by the Soviet government, but Solzhenitsyn, who had experienced many vicissitudes, just nodded calmly, took the bouquet, and politely said thank you.

His first stop back in Moscow was to his old home, where Solzhenitsyn had been a novelist who had made his career in the city and was thrilled when he saw the dilapidated but well-preserved cottage again. When he stepped into the room, he found that everything was exactly the same as when he fled the Soviet Union decades ago.

"Everything is laid according to the previous laying, with the slightest error." Surkov explained.

"Really? But the people are still the same people, and the regime has not changed, is this the misfortune of this country, or is it your luck? Solzhenitsyn came out of nowhere with such a sentence, which made Surkov feel a little embarrassed in public.

But Surkov retorted solemnly, "I have never denied the shortcomings of this country, but I also do not deny its glory and greatness, perhaps because of the constraints of history, we have made mistakes of one kind or another." It does not mean that in the future, we will make the same mistakes that harm the interests of the people. ”

"A warrior with flaws is a warrior after all, and the noble flies still can't hide their filthy nature."

Solzhenitsyn, who was at the forefront, stopped, and for the first time since he got off the plane, he showed a friendly smile, and with a Hemingway-like mustache, he put his hand in his pocket and said solemnly, "Your insight and level are much better than those of the propaganda propaganda of the Khrushchev era, although at first I wondered how such a country could complete the transformation from a treacherous government to a strong national cohesion, and now I think I have found the answer." ”

There was no more exciting word of praise than coming out of the mouth of one's own enemy, and Surkov just nodded politely and said, "This is our faith, although not everyone can understand his greatness." ”

"You remind me of Susrov." Solzhenitsyn replied, "Minister Surkov, no wonder you are in charge of the ideological-ideological-form-strategic high ground of a country, and since Susrov's death, I seem to have seen in you the shadow of the Gray Cardinal. ”

"So, skipping these boring procedures, when will we be able to meet the real ruler of the Soviets, the General Secretary of the Soviets, whom the Western countries call a tyrant?" Solzhenitsyn asked, his curiosity about the Ivan the Terrible monarch far outweighed his disgust at the dictator.

"And then it's over." Surkov replied with a mysterious expression. (To be continued.) )