Chapter 507

If Secretary Gorbachev came to power in 1985, the people of the Soviet Union regained their confidence in the reform of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Then for the ordinary people in Moscow, Yeltsin's arrival redefined the meaning of senior officials in Moscow.

Yeltsin and his predecessor grishen have different policies. Not long after taking office, Yeltsin rectified the working attitude of Moscow municipal government. At the same time, he also changed the impression of high-ranking officials in Moscow and drove out many things that Soviet officials had not done for many years.

About three months after Yeltsin took office, on a Sunday morning, he came to the construction site of Moscow workers' new city without saying hello. At first, the person in charge of the construction site thought that Yeltsin was here to visit, but later he found that he was completely wrong. Comrade Yeltsin actually came to the workers' new town to do voluntary work.

Yeltsin was wearing a helmet and overalls at the construction site of the workers' new town. Carrying cement and weaving steel together with the workers, he did a decent job. Even the steel master at the construction site felt that Secretary Yeltsin was really knowledgeable.

In fact, it all benefits from Yeltsin's many years of working experience in the construction industry. Although he is over 50 years old, Yeltsin has been working on the construction site all day. In the evening, while the workers were resting, Yeltsin's wife and daughter cooked a big dinner for them. Instead of discussing national affairs, Yeltsin encouraged everyone to talk about the difficulties in life. He even took out his notebook to record some places where everyone had opinions.

On that night, Yeltsin appeared in the news program of Moscow TV station at the construction site of the workers' new village. On television, Yeltsin and the workers are lifting steel and cement together. The old Bai family name in Moscow saw a scene on TV that he had never thought of before. A senior city official went to work as a construction worker at the construction site. I'm afraid only comrade Lenin of that year would do so!

Yeltsin's move won him wide favor among the citizens of Moscow. Not only Moscow media, but also some foreign news organizations have reported Yeltsin's move. It took Yeltsin only one Sunday to win the hearts of the people in Moscow, and even Xie liaosha, who has a good reputation and has been promoted to Vice Minister of foreign trade and economic cooperation, can't match him. Because Xie liaosha can't work on the construction site.

Yeltsin's behavior was praised by Gorbachev. After fighting there, Yeltsin often appeared in the familiar occasions of Moscow people. The media will find that Yeltsin's wife actually goes to the ordinary food store to line up, rather than the special supply store where cadres of his level should go to buy food.

With Yeltsin constantly being discovered, these are different from the senior cadres of the Soviet Union. Moscow's local media and people are getting more and more fond of Yeltsin. Even some western media based in Moscow have noticed this Soviet official with different styles.

What Yeltsin has done is not just to show his attitude towards ordinary people in front of the media. He has also set up a hotline of the municipal Party committee in Moscow and set up a special department to receive opinions and suggestions from ordinary people. And selected a series of representative issues for public discussion in Moscow News and Communist Youth League Pravda. After a period of hard work, the intelligentsia in Moscow gradually became interested in the discussion of these issues. They published their insights in the newspapers one after another. Many intellectuals thought Yeltsin was an enlightened leader who could listen to the suggestions. The intelligentsia gained the respect they never had here.

Yeltsin's series of actions seem to be deviant, but he began to turn his unfavorable situation bit by bit in the competition with ligachov. Originally, to move Yeltsin, he only needs to consider Gorbachev's opinions, but now he has to take into account the views of the people who are attracted by Yeltsin.

Yeltsin used the support of the common people to start the personnel arrangement of the Moscow government, and a large number of second generation officials who were involved in the officialdom relying on nepotism became the target of Yeltsin's operation. Yeltsin even invited reporters to check attendance and work discipline with himself in various departments of Moscow municipal government.

Images of some officials coming to work drunk were mercilessly released to Moscow's evening news by reporters. Within an hour, the official was cleared out of Moscow's cadre team. Yeltsin's action angered many conservatives who were used to the tolerance of brezhelev, but the more Yeltsin did it, the more people liked him. Gorbachev, the general secretary, paid more attention to Yeltsin and openly supported Yeltsin's reform of Moscow municipal government.

Yeltsin soon made a large number of important posts available to some overstaffed officials. At the same time, he also began to arrange and cultivate some of his own forces. As the financial manager of Moscow workers' new village project, Sobchak was arranged by Yeltsin to be the director of Finance Bureau of Moscow municipal government. The financial power of Moscow city is completely in hand. With fiscal power, Moscow can issue its own government bonds to fight for funds for infrastructure construction, without having to look at ligachev's face.

Ligachov soon found that Yeltsin, who had hardened his wings, paid less and less attention to him in the Secretariat. Even Yeltsin began to laugh at the inefficiency of ligachov's work. Even the small things such as how many tomatoes and tea he collected and how many carriages he had had to take to the meeting of the Secretariat for an afternoon's discussion.

Just as Yeltsin was becoming more and more troublesome to ligachev, Yakovlev, as the propaganda minister of the central government, was also moving around, fearlessly starting to touch some historical problems of the Soviet Union. The first case that Yakovlev used was the historical case of Bukharin, the early leader of the Soviet Communist Party, who was executed during Stalin.

Speaking of Bukharin, Xie liaosha is most impressed by the sentence "hurry up, tell Lenin that Bukharin is a traitor" in the movie "Party A and Party B" This line comes from the popular old Soviet film Lenin in 1918. But is Bukharin really a traitor? Given that Stalin decided the case, this conclusion is worth pondering.

Yakovlev has done a great job. He published his last letter to the leaders of the future generation of the Party (Bukharin), a traitor, for the first time in the Communist Party of the Soviet Union's news newspaper. The heart of humiliation and death expressed in the letter made many people cry, which not only caused great repercussions in the society, Moreover, it also triggered a big discussion for Bukharin's vindication in the whole society.