Аннотация: A school chalk from the teacher Makarenko. A story.
A school chalk from the teacher Makarenko. A story.
The President of a small mountainous country was walking along the park after playing cards with a mountain (or steppe) dweller in a fox fur hat.
In a calm atmosphere, it was necessary to find a solution to the most important issue.
The entire economy of the mountainous republic was based on gold mining.
Everything else was secondary.
Even immigration quotas - a matter of great importance - in case of their sharp increase could not significantly affect the financial situation.
The presidential term - even if it is infinite, then a human life - is finite.
Consequently, from the standpoint of efficiency, it was necessary to think about how to change the rules for the distribution of mined gold in such a way that the presidency term was useful.
At this time, the cell phone rang.
One of the most informed people of the state reported about unrest on the border with a neighboring state.
The inhabitants of the little mountainous republic, for the most part, could not count on receiving a share of the gold mined. They fed themselves from agriculture, from land and from water.
From time to time on the border with a neighboring state, disputes broke out over the ownership of land and of water.
One of these situations escalated into a firefight.
The President sighed sadly. There is not enough land and water for everyone - and what can we offer?
One of the most informed people finished the telephone message and reported on the need to continue his participation in medical procedures. He had to urgently go abroad for treatment due to a sudden deterioration in health.
Another call to the cell phone. A polite voice from the phone said convincingly:
- We urgently need to hear a statement about the peaceful end of the conflict!
The President put the phone in his pocket and left the park.
He pulled out three large foreign currency bills from his wallet. He waved one banknote, raising it as high as possible. He kept the other two at the ready.
Immediately a car drove up to him.
- To the border!
The driver shook his head.
- What?! Why!?
- They're shooting!
The President took out two spare banknotes.
The car rushed to the border.
The President had to leave car one kilometer from the conventional border. The driver refused to move further.
The President went on foot.
He saw someone's damaged armored personnel carrier (no identification signs) and an overturned ambulance. Several times he saw cars with private numbers, pierced by bullets and crashed (as after accidents).
At last, the figure of a cultural person in a good English suit, an excellent French coat and a fashionable Italian shoes appeared in front of him.
The President immediately realized that he was facing a colleague from a neighboring state.
Both of them received the phone calls simultaneously.
- We are waiting for news of a peaceful settlement of the conflict!
The heads of state began to stroll along the border, conversating peacefully.
They were solving urgent problems in parallel.
The President of the small mountainous republic called one of the most informed people and asked him to interrupt the treatment and to return.
Then, after seeing locals gathering on both sides, the President instructed a little boy to run to a nearby college and to bring a school chalk, which the teacher and the students use to write on the blackboard.
Meanwhile, the number of local residents on both sides was growing. The President, with annoyance, recognized in one of the assembled the same man in a fox fur hat, to whom he had recently lost during the card game.
The boy brought a school chalk.
The heads of state looked at each other.
The President of the small mountainous republic raised the chalk above his head and said:
- This is the chalk used by the great teacher Makarenko!
The crowd fell silent wary. A recent card-playing partner in a fox-fur hat stared incredulously at the President and at the piece of chalk.
- Together with Felix Edmundovich, Makarenko was directing the youth, all people, on the right path! - added a colleague (head of a neighboring state).
The man in the fox hat changed the direction of his gaze and lowered his head.
Wasting no time, the heads of state did a line with chalk on the asphalt.
After that, they made a peaceful statement:
- This is an agreed border, and we will not allow anyone to disturb the peace!
Immediately, relevant photos and messages of reaching peace appeared on social media.
The heads of state shook hands and headed to their capitals.
It was not so easy to get back from the border to the capital. But the hope for new algorithms for distributing income from gold mined in the republic brightened up the president's gloomy reflections.
The presidential palace is visible, already, in the distance. The president asked the driver to stop the car, paid, and got out.
He walked towards the presidential palace.
A car stopped nearby. The one of most informed people came out of it. He reported returning from overseas treatment in accordance with the president's instructions, congratulated on achieving peace, and offered the President a bag with an electrician's uniform cap and jacket (for a confidential return to the office).
The President did not refuse, took the bag.
Another man got out of the car:
- The crowd on both sides is starting to freak out!
- I ask you to take control of the situation immediately!
The car jerked off to the place of events.
The President continued on his way to the palace.
'Or maybe to go straight to the airport? How many international tasks have not yet been resolved! "
Above the President and over the small mountainous republic, the huge blue sky looked affectionately at the Earth and at its inhabitants ...
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May 1, 2021 11:32
Translation from Russian into English: May 1, 2021 15:13.
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