possible.
– Interesting, and what did you ask this? – said the major with great interest.
– I did not understand the political information about the leader, | did not understand that it is
possible to speak so frankly, avoiding the negative qualities of Lenin, ideally only in positive key.
But he was a man and he could not have negative qualities? So | asked:
– Why didn’t you say anything negative about the leader”? – Commissar rolled his eyes, looking
at me, grumbled:
– Found, lieutenant, to whom to ask such questions. Don't you understand that you were
confronted by a "celestial being", a colonel of the political department of the elite of the
military district?!
– So what, I'm wrong, so you and |, like every person, have flaws, the leader, for example, had a
mistress in addition to his legal wife Krupskaya, he liked playing cards and did not like to lose to
the writer Maxim Gorky, and died in Gorki at the age of fifty-five from syphilis.
– I hope you did not tell this to the colonel, because you were given a term to serve there?
– Otherwise, Comrade Major, | wouldn't be standing here in front of you, as if in court, and
wouldn’t justify myself?”
– So, not Comrade Major, but Mr. Major, we are in a free European country, by the way. Well,
as for your loyalty, you are loyal to our European power, and we will deal with this
misunderstanding like this! – having said this, the major again opened my personal file in a
greenish cardboard book with a five-pointed star on the front side, leafed through, found a
characteristic about my expressed unreliability and tore out the page, tore it into pieces,
throwing it into the wastebasket. Then he looked at me, took a prescription from the table and
handed it to me with the words:
– I hope you know where the settlement is Bila Tserkva, and how to get there?
– By bus from the bus station, which is at the Lebedskaya metro stop. – | answered.
– Give it to the commander of the aviation regiment, he will tell you what to do and what to do.
Any questions?!
– No way, Major! May | go?
– In six months you will be given the proper rank of major, go!
– Eat!
| went out into the corridor, a big man stood up to meet me, grumbling asked:
– Why did you drink vodka there, what took so long?
– Come find out! | threw after him.