Chapter 51 A Different Secretary Yeltsin

If it is said that Secretary Gorbachev came to power in 1985, the common people in the Soviet Union regained their confidence in the reform of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. So for the common people in Moscow, the arrival of Yeltsin has redefined the meaning of the secretary of the Moscow Municipal Party Committee.

Yeltsin has a very different approach to politics than his predecessor, Grishin. Not long after taking office, Yeltsin rectified the working attitude of the Moscow city government. At the same time, he also changed the impression that the secretary of the Moscow Municipal Party Committee gave people that he was aloof, and drove out many things that Soviet officials had not done for many years.

About three months after Yeltsin took office, on a Sunday morning, he arrived at the construction site of the Moscow Workers' New City without saying hello. The person in charge of the construction site thought Yeltsin was here to visit at first, but later he found out that he was completely wrong. Comrade Yeltsin actually came to Workers' New City to do voluntary labor.

On the construction site in the new town of workers, Yeltsin wears a hard hat and overalls. Carrying cement and weaving steel bars with the workers, he did all the work decently. Even the steel bar master on the construction site felt that Secretary Yeltsin really knew what he was doing.

This is actually entirely due to Yeltsin's many years of experience in the construction industry. Although already in his fifties, Yeltsin still worked hard on the construction site all day long. In the evening, while the workers were resting, Yeltsin's wife and daughter cooked a big dinner for the workers. Everyone sat around like old friends and old colleagues. Instead of discussing major national affairs, Yeltsin encouraged everyone to talk about the difficulties in life. He even took out his notebook to share some opinions that everyone had It was recorded.

On the night of this day, Yeltsin appeared on the news program of the Moscow TV station at the labor site in the new village of workers. On the TV screen, Yeltsin and the workers carried steel bars and cement together. The old Bai surname in Moscow saw a scene that he had never thought of on TV. A secretary of the municipal party committee actually went to the construction site to work as a construction worker. I am afraid that only Comrade Lenin would do this!

Yeltsin's move won him widespread favor among Moscow citizens. Not only the Moscow media, but even some foreign news organizations reported Yeltsin's move. It took only one Sunday for Yeltsin to win the hearts of the common people in Moscow. Even Seryozha, who has a good reputation and has been promoted to Deputy Minister of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation, can't compare with him. Because Seryozha would never do such a thing as working on a construction site.

Yeltsin's behavior was praised by Gorbachev. After the fight there, Yeltsin often appeared in places familiar to ordinary people in Moscow. The media will find out that Yeltsin's wife actually went to line up at the entrance of an ordinary food store, instead of the special supply store where a cadre of his level should go to buy food.

As Yeltsin continued to be discovered, these were different from the senior cadres of the Soviet Union. The local media and people in Moscow have a growing favorable opinion of Yeltsin. Even some Western media based in Moscow have noticed this Soviet official with a very different style.

What Yeltsin did was not just to show his attitude towards ordinary people in front of the media. He also set up a hotline for the Moscow Municipal Party Committee and set up a special department to receive opinions and suggestions from ordinary people. And a series of representative issues were selected for public discussion on and on the Internet. After a period of hard work, the intellectuals in Moscow gradually developed a strong interest in the discussion of these issues, and they published their insights in newspapers one after another. Many intellectuals felt that Yeltsin was an enlightened leader who listened to suggestions. Human beings, the intellectual class, have gained respect from Yeltsin that they have never had before.

Yeltsin's series of actions seemed deviant, but he began to reverse his unfavorable situation little by little in the competition with Ligachev. Originally, Ligachev only needed to consider Gorbachev's opinion if he wanted to move Yeltsin.

But now he has to take into account the views of ordinary people who are attracted by Yeltsin.

Yeltsin took advantage of the support of the common people to start personnel arrangements for the Moscow government. A large number of second-generation officials who had been in the officialdom through nepotism became the targets of Yeltsin's surgery. Yeltsin even invited reporters to go with him to various departments of the Moscow City Government to check attendance and work discipline issues.

The footage of some officials coming to work drunk was ruthlessly published on the Moscow evening news by reporters, and within an hour, this official was cleared out of the Moscow cadre ranks. What Yeltsin did made many conservatives accustomed to Breezhlev's tolerance angry, but the more Yeltsin did it, the more people liked him. General Secretary Gorbachev also paid more attention to Yeltsin and publicly supported Yeltsin's reform of the Moscow city government.

Yeltsin quickly vacated a large number of important positions for some overstaffed officials. At the same time, he also began to arrange and cultivate some of his own forces. As the financial steward of the Moscow Workers' New Village Project, Sobchak was arranged by Yeltsin to join the Moscow City Government as the Director of the Finance Bureau. Completely held the financial power of Moscow City in his hands. With financial power, Moscow can issue government bonds to obtain funds for infrastructure construction without having to look at Ligachev's face.

Ligachev soon discovered that in the secretariat, Yeltsin, whose wings had stiffened, was becoming less and less important to him. Even Yeltsin began to laugh at Ligachev's inefficiency. Even small matters such as how many tomatoes, tea leaves, and how many carriages were collected had to be discussed at the meeting of the secretariat for an afternoon.

Just when Yeltsin was causing Ligachev more and more headaches, Yakovlev, as the head of propaganda of the Central Committee, was also moving around, unscrupulously starting to touch some historical issues of the Soviet Union. The first thing Yakovlev used to operate was the historical case of Bukharin, the early leader of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, who was executed during the Stalin period.

Speaking of Bukharin, what impressed Sergei the most was the line that Uncle Ge said in the movie after he was hit by a flowerpot, "Quick, go tell Lenin that Bukharin is a traitor!" Old Soviet movies circulated. But was Bukharin really a traitor? Given that the case was settled by Stalin, this conclusion is interesting.

Yakovlev did a great thing. He published the "traitor" Bukharin's last letter for the first time in the journal of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. He died in the humiliation shown in the letter. The mood made many people shed tears, which not only aroused huge repercussions in the society, but also triggered a big discussion on Bukharin's redress in the whole society.

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