Soviet Union 1991

(First update)

Perhaps this day was the most shocking day in the American news industry. A news article titled "Western Scam - Restoring a Real Soviet Leader" made the headlines of major Western newspapers, and the article was signed by Mike Wallace, a famous American news host. No one would doubt the weight and authenticity of this report, because when Wallace was invited to participate in the Soviet interview, almost all his friends in the news industry came to see him off for this great feat.

In Wallace's report, Yanaev was no longer the dictator that everyone in the West feared. His friendly and amiable image was vividly portrayed on paper. Wallace even described Yanaev in the newspaper like this, "God gave the Archangel's sword because he knew that love and peace could not solve all disputes." He also revealed Yanaev's dark history of the United States intactly, and his analysis was incisive.

What the audience saw on the screen was a national leader with a lot of wit, especially his outspokenness in speaking out about the various shortcomings of American society, which won the support of the American people. Some people even thought that Yanaev should not stay in Moscow, but should stay in the White House to drive Bush, who only launched wars to consolidate his position, out of office.

Another person was not in a good mood. Solzhenitsyn, who was ridiculed by Yanaev as a Russian tsarist, was finally caught by his American counterparts. Perhaps it was a common problem of intellectuals looking down on each other, and they couldn't stand the other party's excessive popularity. Columnist Anthony described Solzhenitsyn as a religious extremist fanatic who used the profession of "social conscience" to criticize freedom and human rights. In fact, his conscience had long been thrown into the sewer.

And his new book about the Soviet tsar was repeatedly postponed because of this incident.

Some people are sad and some are happy. With this excellent report, Wallace won the Pulitzer Prize again. The judges praised this report for describing a flesh-and-blood Soviet leader from a new perspective and showing the world a completely different side of him.

Perhaps Yanaev himself did not know that this unintentional interview made him the most watched national leader in the United States. Some people joked that if Yanaev was willing to give up the post of Soviet president and run for president in the United States, he would definitely get much more votes than Bush, the executioner who started the war.

The wave of Yanaev-style worship in the United States is closely related to the sluggish economic development of the United States. Of course, the US government was silent about Wallace's report and did not make any response. After all, Bush was still angry at this time, and who would be so blind as to report such a thing that would boost others' ambitions.

Yanayev, who saw the report, called Wallace from Moscow to congratulate him. At that time, Wallace was interviewed on the TV program "60 Minutes". When he heard his assistant outside saying that there was a call from Moscow, he decisively asked his assistant to move the phone to the studio and have a conversation like an old friend in front of millions of viewers.

"Hey, Mike, my friend, how are you recently?" Yanayev, speaking Russian English, greeted Wallace. At this time, he was holding the phone and had no idea that he was just talking to Wallace in a private setting.

Wallace made a silent gesture to the audience around him, and everyone else held their breath and listened quietly to Wallace's free play. He held the microphone and replied, "Of course it's fine, my friend, guess where I'm talking to you now?"

"Huh? Not in your studio, right?" Yanayev asked curiously.

Wallace, who had been holding back his laughter, laughed out loud. He said, "Haha, yes, I'm in the studio right now. Our call is being watched by millions of viewers across the country. Why don't you say hello to them?"

"Hello, everyone. I'm sure you know who I am. Of course, I'm the Soviet tyrant you've been criticizing, but I don't think I'm cruel at all. Maybe your American government has a biased understanding of the Slavic people. Although we can knock down a polar bear with our bare hands and drink a bottle of vodka with our heads raised, it doesn't mean we don't love peace." Yanayev's humorous self-deprecation made all the audience laugh, making people think that the person on the other end of the phone was just an old friend with a humorous way of talking, not the leader of a country.

The director behind the scenes looked at this scene and couldn't help but smile triumphantly. The ratings of tonight's "60 Minutes" program must be the highest among all similar programs. With such a heavyweight guest, it may break a new historical high.

"Does anyone here have anything to say to the Soviet leader? This may be the only time you will have close contact with the president of a country?" Wallace asked the audience around him while holding the microphone.

Of course, many people wanted to try, and almost everyone present raised their hands. Wallace selected a thin young man wearing glasses and said to him, "Do you want to say something to President Yanaev?"

"Except for my personal ** questions, I will try my best to answer other questions I can." Yanaev said cheerfully, "Hi, friend, what's your name?"

"Kane, just call me Kane, Mr. President." The young man held the microphone and asked nervously, "President of the Soviet Union, I want to know if you will implement the same democratic system as ours? Or will the leader's power always be supreme? Is it really a dictatorship as our government claims?"

Yanayev smiled and said, "Hey, friend. I think you have some misunderstandings about the Soviet political system. Don't always believe what the government says. What they say is indeed true, but it may not be the truth that the government wants to tell you. We have the Soviet Presidium, which adopts the elite ruling system just like you in the United States. As for the leader's rights you mentioned, they must be voted on through collective discussions in the face of major events. It doesn't mean that I can have the final say alone. This is unfair to people with other opinions. And starting from my term, the Supreme Chairman is not a lifelong system. We will issue clear regulations on how many terms the Soviet Supreme Chairman can serve and how many years each term can last. Open a new era of leaders in office."

"We think that the democratic system is good. It means that we can mention more grassroots discourse and constrain our behavior. In Soviet history, We have made some mistakes and we have reflected on them. I also think that the Soviet democratic system must be based on a complete and perfect legal system. Whether it is the top leader or the ordinary people, they must be tried for breaking the law. He will not be pardoned because he has privileges, nor will the trial result be controlled by public opinion because he is a disadvantaged group. "

"The remarkable achievements of American democracy are largely due to the legal foundation. Of course, we must also decide the system based on our actual situation. Any democracy that is divorced from reality is nothing but a mirage, just like South Korea and South Vietnam. They also have American democratic systems, but it does not prevent the top leader from being a dictator. Any other questions? "

"I want to know what to do with the soldiers scattered in Afghanistan? Does your government really want to rescue them all?" The young man asked another question. "Haha, I wonder if you still remember the movie "Rambo 2" that you released six years ago to discredit the Soviet Union. It was the movie in which Rambo was betrayed by his superiors while investigating the missing soldiers on the battlefield in Vietnam. He said a famous sentence at that time, which I still remember to this day, 'I love my motherland, but does my motherland love me?' Although I don't know whether the United States has ever searched for the missing Vietnamese soldiers in reality, I hope that the Soviet Union will never stage the plot in the movie. This time, I came to see my friend Wallace, hoping to ask Western humanitarian rescue organizations to help find the lost soldiers in Afghanistan."

When Yanayev said this, the audience had become quiet, silently waiting for him to continue.

"I want to say to these children in the desert who are looking forward to the army coming back to greet them day after day, the war is over, come home with me, the motherland and your mothers have not forgotten, they have been waiting for you to go home."