Chapter 153 Fighter

After being persuaded by his secretary, Ligachev did not show up in the end. He directly told his subordinates to follow up the case first, and talk about the rest later. What Ligachev really meant was to delay this matter first, and wait until he had a chance to discuss this matter with Gorbachev before dealing with it.

Yeltsin and Sobchak at the gate of the court became the heroes of the Muscovites, and the people of Goldman Sachs cheered their names. A sincere supporter of Yeltsin, Yeltsin feels that he has done a great thing, and the depression in his heart has been swept away for more than half a year. He has already made a move, and it depends on how Ligachev will continue.

In a few days it will be the 1987 Central Committee Plenary Session of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Yeltsin's actions at this time will not give Ligachev any face at all. And although Seryozha is not a member of the Central Committee, this time he will participate in the meeting as a representative of the CPSU. He can watch it, but he has no right to speak at the meeting. opportunity to speak.

Seryozha actually didn't have much expectations for this meeting. He was still worried about Churbanov being arrested. Churbanov knew a lot about Seryozha. Get in touch with Churbanov. Under Sergey's hint, the Churbanov case was compared with Yeltsin's lawsuit, and a comparative report was made. The focus was on the legality of Ligachev's misappropriation of funds from the Workers' New City for other purposes.

Because the impact of the Yeltsin case was too great, during this period of time, except for the Central Party newspaper, almost all the media focused on the trial of the Yeltsin case. The upcoming plenum of the CPSU Central Committee was ignored. Yeltsin is now staying behind closed doors, concentrating on his speech at the plenum of the CPSU Central Committee. At this meeting, he will question Ligachev again about the legal basis for embezzling workers' new city construction funds.

So amidst the din of the media, the plenum of the CPSU Central Committee, which has attracted much attention, was held. During this period of time, one was to avoid suspicion, and the other was to be busy with the Churbanov case, so Seryosha and Yeltsin did not have in-depth communication. When he walked into the meeting, he didn't know that Yeltsin was actually planning to take on Ligachev and Gorbachev at the meeting.

The meeting was held according to the previous procedures. As an alternate member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee, Yeltsin sat high on the rostrum. As the loud and clear international anthem sounded, all members stood up and sang the international anthem. The background of the rostrum is a huge portrait of Lenin. When these ceremonial ceremonies were over, the host of the conference began to speak, and then General Secretary Gorbachev stepped onto the stage to summarize the work of the past year.

The order of speeches at the meeting was carried out according to the ranking within the Politburo, followed by Ryzhkov, who was the top leader of the government, and then Ligachev. In his speech, Ligachev affirmed the achievements made in the national economic field in the past year, and focused on the Volkswagen joint venture project introduced by Sergey. These speeches were nothing new. Sergey fell asleep after listening. I have been thinking about how to deal with Churbanov in my mind.

After one big man spoke after another, it was finally Yeltsin's turn to speak on stage, and his first words shocked the audience.

"I don't agree with Secretary Gorbachev and Secretary Ligachev. They should go to the streets of Moscow, go to our shops and see what our economy looks like. I will just give a small example , the place where our family buys daily necessities is different from that of everyone here. I never go to the special store for senior cadres. My wife goes to the most ordinary state store every day like most citizens in Moscow to buy daily necessities. Need. I work very late every day, and I often come home at nine o’clock, but every time I find that I always come home just in time for dinner at home. At first I thought it was my wife who waited on purpose. I came back for dinner and didn't know until I asked once,

It turns out that it took him four full hours to queue up at the food store from get off work to buy the ingredients needed for our family's dinner..."

"Secretary Gorbachev, do you really know about these situations? What I want to tell you is that the waiting time is two hours before carrying out the economic reform plan that you personally formulated. I want to know what we do all year What, isn’t our economy getting better, but getting worse? Wake up, comrades! You are deceiving yourself!”

"Not long ago, I submitted an indictment to the Moscow District Court, suing the National Economic Council for illegally misappropriating funds for the Moscow Workers' New Town project. Until now, the Central Secretariat has not given me a formal answer. I think I want to be here today. Ask, where is our money spent..."

Yeltsin's speech became more and more excessive, and Ligachev and Gorbachev on the rostrum were speechless when asked. Ryzhkov, Yeltsin's former colleague, was terrified. He felt that he had some personal relationship with Yeltsin, so he stood up, walked to the podium, turned off the microphone, and whispered to Yeltsin: "That's enough. Comrade Yeltsin, there are foreign ambassadors in the audience, can you save us some face!"

Yeltsin's speech just now was somewhat impulsive, but many of what he said were indeed true. Some comrades from the grassroots in the audience had a deep understanding of the phenomenon Yeltsin mentioned. With a few sparse applause, some brave representatives of grassroots party members expressed their respect to Yeltsin, and then more applause sounded, and some impulsive young representatives even stood up and gave Yeltsin a standing ovation.

Seryozha did not expect Yeltsin to do this. He always believed that Yeltsin was a mature politician and would not act impulsively. For a long time, Seryosha has been using Yeltsin to constantly set up obstacles for Ligachev, preventing Ligachev from attacking his Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation. This time Yeltsin did something that had never been done in the history of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union for decades.

Yeltsin may have taken into account that representatives from Eastern European countries were also present at the meeting, so under Ryzhkov's repeated persuasion, Yeltsin still stepped down. When he stepped off the podium, he let out a long sigh and walked out of the venue. Almost all the representatives along the way stared at him, some stood up to greet him, and some stared at him coldly.

When he passed by Seryozha, Seryozha also stood up and grabbed Yeltsin, saying to him, "Why are you so impulsive!"

"You don't understand, some things have to be done!" Yeltsin shook hands with Seryozha, and then left without looking back. ...