Аннотация: The Story about the not held the historical meeting
The Story about the not held the historical meeting
The historian Academician Pokrovsky to Stalin comes:
- Pupils and teachers, reading about events of 1939, express bewilderment: why you personally haven't met Hitler? It would be much interesting to look at photos with your handshake. Now new edition of the textbook of history prepares. I would like to highlight this issue.
There was a pause. In silence through an open window came the sound of radio broadcasts on history: "What happened a hundred years ago." Someone's voice commented :"No comments."
- When to me have charged to carry out political audit of The All-Russian Extraordinary Commission (Cheka), I have asked Felix Dzerzhinsky: "Why did not the guillotine stand in the meeting room of the National Convention next to the podium of speakers during the Jacobin terror? And in the Napoleon's epoch Duke of Enghien was not guillotined, and was shot? If to trust the Vasily Vereshchagin's picture "With weapon - shot!", there were also executions without court, by order of. But it was execution (a shooting), but not other options".
Felix Edmundovich felt himself during this period of time not really healthy, many people had an insufficient food. For the answer he has chosen subject gastronomic: "I consider myself the person of the European culture. And if the dictator from the Central Africa Jean-Bédel Bokassa has invited me to have dinner with him, I would not have found time for such an event. I am very busy fulfilling the instructions of the Central Committee".
- "I am very busy fulfilling the instructions of the Central Committee", - Pokrovsky have repeated aloud of Stalin's written-down words for correctness.
- "Remember, the comrade Dzerzhinsky, your plans to become the Minister of Education in Poland! If in the textbook any inaccuracies are found, then specifications, changes are brought in it!" "I agree, comrade Stalin, that magazine needs to be closed with a formulation "because of glorification of tortures". Later, we will establish another magazine, in the new edition we will take into account the comments made earlier." "Here and well, comrade Dzerzhinsky. And since you wanted to become the Minister of education, we decided to consider your plans and entrust you the care of five million street children".
Such results, the comrade Pokrovsky, of political audit of The All-Russian Extraordinary Commission. Are you sure you recorded everything correctly?
- Yes, comrade Stalin. But how to be with your's the not held handshake with Hitler?
- Now I am forced to turn to other questions. And you prepare your records for the publication. If there will be something unclear, we will discuss text again with you.
Pokrovsky headed for the exit.
October 26, 2018 03:42
Translation from Russian into English: October 26, 2018 04:48.
Владимир Владимирович Залесский 'Рассказ о несостоявшейся исторической встрече'.