Аннотация: What exactly seemed interesting to me in the book by Felix Chuev "Molotov. A semi-autocratic ruler"? The note.
What exactly seemed interesting to me in the book by Felix Chuev 'Molotov. A semi-autocratic ruler"? The note.
A huge book - the book by Felix Chuev 'Molotov. An semi-autocratic ruler" [736 pages] [rus]. Probably, I didn't achieve to read this book in whole.
There are references to Krzhizhanovsky, Dzerzhinsky, however, very fragmentary... 'There were few Bolsheviks among the Poles. But there were. There was Dzerzhinsky... This man is of high style. The Poles were even worse then than they are now.
Jaruzelski helped us out, in my opinion ... Before [Jaruzelski], for me, Fidel Castro was a pleasant surprise. " (Molotov's words - according to Chuev's book).
Imperialism, imperialists, right deviation, left deviation. Peasants, kulaks, proletariat, liberalism, bourgeoisie ...
'- Why were Tupolev, Stechkin, Korolev in prison?
- All these citizens were sitting [in prison]. They talked too much. And the circle of their acquaintances, as expected ... They did not support us ... "
Strange style of presentation - the usage of short phrases.
Something about Roosevelt, about Truman, about Churchill ... 'I met with Eisenhower. And I met with Dulles. Eisenhower is so good-natured. Dulles is such a hook, remember he is a hook. "
To express my opinion about Chuev's book and about Molotov's statements - in a critical way? Somehow impolite. Molotov is a historical man ...
What did Molotov write? What works he had written, what books? What can we read written by Molotov, except for the works by Chuev?
We continue to read Chuev.
'- All the way from Moscow to Irkutsk I [Molotov] went by foot as a prisoner together with the criminals [here storyteller stresses a difference between criminal and political crimes]. In the Irkutsk region itself, I walked [as a prisoner] by foot behind a horse, it was autumn, the beginning of winter. In Verkholensk, a town on the Lena River, I and several other exiles were dropped off.
We went on foot. It was necessary to walk twenty - twenty-five kilometers in a day, and an overnight stay. I rubbed my legs. In general, it went well. Seven days seem to have passed. Two hundred kilometers approximately. From Moscow to Irkutsk - by train. (...) But in general, it went well for me - I did not get infected with anything. Didn't get sick. Of course, going a neccessary distance with a group of prisoners and getting sick is very bad. Here you could pick up something serious.
Siberian rivers ... Three big rivers. Ob, Yenisei, Lena.... From Moscow to Irkutsk - through Chelyabinsk. "
'Before that, I was in prison,' - Molotov continues, - "... The criminals. They treated [us] well, politicians were recognized as people who are fighting for something. In most cases, if a person is not a money-grubber, is not sycophantic in front of his superiors, and [this person] is treated with respect. They can to come up and say: 'Which of yours should I clean? How much time do you give? Half an hour?" They can easily do it ... ""Among you there are a lot of hats! [Among you a lot of unsophisticated people, losers, inattentive persons!]" Then they show what they succeeded to steal. They are standing, talking, one will push with his shoulder, and the other - into somebody's pocket [the other reaches into someone else's pocket unnoticed]... "
How to end this note?
'... We started to work on theme of missiles seriously during the war. Could we have launched the world's first satellite in 1957 and the first man into space in 1961, if we had not started doing this much earlier?
'Academician Vasily Pavlovich Mishin told me about this,' - I say [Felix Chuev]. - "For a long time he was the first deputy of Korolev, and then his successor as Chief Designer. 'The future Soviet kosmos,' he [Mishin] said, 'began at the end of the war with an exchange of messages between Stalin and Churchill' ...
'On the same day,' said Vasily Pavlovich Mishin, 'Serega (that is Sergei Korolev. - F. Ch.) and I were on Stalin's carpet ...
And for the October holidays, we sent, using a railway platform, a ready-made cruise missile, a Tatra car, a box of Czech beer to Moscow and wrote: "A gift to Stalin." This is how the Soviet kosmos began. "
The surname "Tsiolkovsky" I did not find in the book by Felix Chuev "Molotov. A semi-autocratic ruler" .
[MMСXL. The original historical concept by Vladimir Zalessky "East-Republican Space Project and the Russial (Soviet) intelligentsia". - April 29, 2021.].
May 10, 2021 06:48
Translation from Russian into English: May 10, 2021 13:01.
Владимир Владимирович Залесский 'Что мне показалось интересным в книге Феликса Чуева 'Молотов. Полудержавный властелин'? Заметка'.