Аннотация: Leonid Ilyich and his family. The note.
Leonid Ilyich and his family. The note.
While reading the book-biography of Leonid Brezhnev, written by Leonid Mlechin, we can suggest that Leonid Ilyich has a subtle sense of humor.
For example:
"Pilot-cosmonaut Major General Aleksey Arkhipovich Leonov, after the next flight, introduced cosmonaut Valery Fedorovich Bykovsky to the Secretary General.
Brezhnev suddenly asked him:
- And who are you?
- General Alexey Leonov.
- What did you do in space?
- I went into outer space, then led the expedition.
- Ah, I remember how you somersaulted there.
On September 29, 1982, Brezhnev arrived in Baku to present the Order of Lenin to the republic. (...)
"Aliyev led Brezhnev into the marble hall," Leonid Zamyatin said, "pulled back the curtain and showed a huge picture depicting the entire Brezhnev family.
Live television broadcast Leonid Ilyich's speech at the ceremonial meeting. Brezhnev spoke indistinctly, but the audience caught that instead of "Azerbaijan" he pronounced "Afghanistan" ".
After reading the biography of Shchelokov, written by Sergei Kredov, this assumption grows into conviction.
"In the Shamkhor region of this republic, two fake collective farms were found - with all the requisites, seals, turnovers, staff numbers. One was under managment of the Hero of Socialist Labor, the other - under the Knight of the Order of Lenin. We asked the second: why was he given only the Order of Lenin? He simply replied: "There was not enough money for the Star of the Hero!" Vilen reported all this to Shchelokov.
At the end of summer, three of our employees secretly travel to Azerbaijan to see these "collective farms". And they bring a heavy (an effective) material. We are waiting for the minister's approval to continue the work. After a while, we hear from Vilen: "Grandfather said, we don"t have to do anything yet. [We have to stop]" (Nikolai Anisimovich [Shchelokov] was called "Grandfather" in the ministry.) We will soon see everything on TV ourselves. Indeed, in September Brezhnev unexpectedly went to Baku and presented the Republic with the Order of Lenin. There they give him (as a gift), seems, a saber, cufflinks and a pin with black diamonds for a tie. Vilen: "You have seen it? Here are our collective farms." (Sergey Kredov. "Shchelokov").
So, Leonid Ilyich was presented with a saber. I wonder how events would develop if Leonid Ilyich today could look at a huge picture depicting his entire family?
April 14, 2021 11:59
Translation from Russian into English: April 14, 2021 12:27.
Владимир Владимирович Залесский "Леонид Ильич и его семейство. Заметка".