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The introduction of topics
Last year I went to Meizhou and was invited by a group of fans to go to K songs, all Hakka guys.
Listening to me sing two Soviet songs such as "Harbor Night" and "Hawthorn Tree", a football coach who wanted to write articles for my teacher said in a firm tone: "Teacher Ding, when you were young, you must have been a witness to the honeymoon period between China and the Soviet Union, so the Soviet song will be sung so well!" ”
I smiled and nodded, "Maybe." You guys are so humorous. Ha ha! ”
As I answered, I thought to myself:
If we want to say that the relationship between the Soviet Union and China was the most ironic, we have to count the early liberation to the mid-1950s, and now it is almost 70 years. Young people in their 20s at the time are now at least 90-year-old men.
Propaganda posters of Sino-Soviet friendship in the 1950s
And my uncle after the sixties was actually considered by The Meizhou brother to have such a deep experience, it seems that it is not that the brother does not understand history, but that the old Ding is too old. Cough! What else is going on this day...
In retrospect, it's actually quite interesting.
Before Uncle Ding was born, the Sino-Soviet friendship had long expired, but it was just as I remembered, just in time for the Sino-Soviet confrontation, and the two countries fought Zhenbao Island. All of China marched in the streets, angrily chanting "Down with the new Tsar of the Soviet Union!" ”
Poster of a documentary on the mainland exposing soviet anti-China atrocities during the Sino-Soviet war in the early 1970s
In the same period, Soviet propaganda posters depicted the awe-inspiring Soviet army blocking the provocations of Chinese soldiers
In March 1969, in the battle of Zhenbao Island in Heilongjiang, northeast China, the Chinese border guards killed and wounded more than 230 Soviet troops (the Soviet union announced the number of Soviet casualties was 152), and damaged 19 tanks and armored vehicles. The Chinese army lost 71 dead. Our army set up an ambush in the snow, resolutely counterattacked, and won a small victory.
In Tielekti, on the northwestern border of china, Xinjiang, the Soviet army also retaliated by ambushing the patrol detachment of our border guard station, resulting in the death of almost all the personnel of our main position. 38 people were killed, including 3 journalists.
Immediately afterward, the Soviet Union deployed millions of troops on the border between China and the Soviet Union and China and Mongolia, heavily suppressing the border, grinning with teeth and grinning like a tiger and wolf, as if it would pounce on us at any time and tear us apart. This disturbing period lasted for about a decade, until Gorbachev came to power in the eighties, when it was not far from the collapse of the Soviet Union.
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Chinese Soviet (Russian) complex
Nevertheless, counting Uncle Ding's generation, and two generations above, too many Chinese have a strong Soviet (or Russian) complex, which can be said to be lingering and long-lasting.
In fact, these generations of Chinese people, except for a very small number of intellectuals who studied in the Soviet Union, most of them have only experienced the charm of Russia in movies and literary works.
Wang Meng, a writer who became famous in the 1950s, wrote:
"There is no way, the Soviet Union is my nineteen years old, my first love, the beginning of my literary career. There is no second foreign country that has aroused so much love, fascination, and yearning in my youth, and then brought it up to me so confusing, painful, and even terrifying. ”
Soviet propaganda posters – the glory of an era
All kinds of phenomena tell us that the "Soviet complex", to some extent, is the "Russian complex", mostly out of the Chinese respect and love for Russian literature and art.
In addition to historical and cultural factors, there is also a huge impact on politics and practical interests.
As early as the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the Russians burned and plundered China, and once formed a bloody vendetta. But then both countries have changed dynasties, and "the October Revolution brought Marxism to China with the sound of a cannon" – without the Soviet Revolution, the course of China's modern history would have been a completely different story.
Therefore, after the founding of the Country, we practiced a "one-sided" foreign policy. The political system is also basically modeled after the Soviet Union, so that some of the habits in our system, such as the Five-Year Plan, propaganda banners with white characters on a red background, the layout of the background of the rostrum at the opening of the congress, the form of the seal of the enterprise unit, the red scarf, the Communist Youth League, and so on, are actually from the Soviet Union.
Propaganda poster "Today in the SOVIET Union is Our Tomorrow" published in Shanghai in 1956
After China's victory in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, the Soviet Union, as the big socialist big brother, brought 156 aid projects to China, laying a solid foundation for China's industrialization and benefiting China for decades.
Although during the Khrushchev period, the Soviet Union and we turned our faces, cursed each other for decades, and even had a fierce border conflict, until Comrade Xiaoping led us to taoguang and obscurity in the 1980s, and the two sides resumed normal exchanges.
Intriguingly, after the collapse of the Soviet Union in the 1990s and since Putin came to power in 2000, Sino-Russian relations have become better and better.
As a result, this Russian-Ukrainian war has aroused strong repercussions in China, and it has also very clearly highlighted the appearance of all beings in Chinese society -- a very large number of people have high-profile support for Russia on public opinion occasions and expressed their deep sympathy and praise for Russia and Putin.
At the same time, there are not a few ordinary people who are openly supportive. After all, it was the big goose who acted first, and 200,000 troops drove into the Wu national park, ping-pong and ping-pong were beaten up, the land of Uzbekistan was destroyed, the bones were piled with blood, and the scorched earth was full of fire.
Alas! In fact, everyone also knows that Russia and Ukraine were originally Brothers of the Soviet Union, a good and decent family, and they were indistinguishable and killed the red eyes.
If the Soviet Union were still there, how could it have become so unbearable!
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Russia lacks a soft power!
Speaking of which, the Russian nation is indeed a special people, with a brave and strong personality and a restless soul.
There is no doubt that this personality trait mostly represents a strong and melancholy Russian man who is addicted to alcohol and a bear.
Pictured above is a traditional Russian genre painting. Once upon a time, young Russian lads, after eating and drinking enough, would gather in the open space in the middle of the village or in the small square in the center of the town, and beat each other in the form of boxing. This kind of fighting is a form of entertainment for them, and they are not held accountable for the unexpected casualties that occur in the fight.
It is said that Russian masters generally do what they want and do what they want. Wild and difficult to tame plus fierce and tough, believing that gentlemen do not move their hands, once they are brutal, they are often reckless and leave little room for maneuver.
For example, this time, the Ukrainian little brother followed NATO's fate to expand eastward, with the iron Hamp so fierce and brave, how to swallow this bird breath! The Kremlin whipped a finger, 200,000 troops covered up the past, but unexpectedly by the scheming Biden to do the trick, seized the opportunity, united a large group of Western powers, the same enemy, Qi Brush stood behind the Country of Ukraine, and fought with Russia in an agent-style group fight.
The goose originally wanted to punch open, so as not to have a hundred punches coming! As a result, a punch was not opened, and a hundred punches came!
Under the various overestimations and underestimations of the decision-makers of the big goose, the blitzkrieg became a tough battle, and the offensive battle became a protracted battle, and the old brothers of Russia and Ukraine both fell into the abyss, fought a fish to the death, and lost both blood and qi. Up to now, they can only stumble hard and grit their teeth to resist. And the whole of Europe is also unlucky, facing the bottomless pit of Ukraine, I don't know how much money to spend, and I don't know when to help.
In contrast, only the Yankees enjoyed it, consuming their old enemy Russia and kidnapping the little brothers of the rich countries of Western Europe, but they themselves made a windfall from the war. So you see that the 80-year-old, seemingly a little senile dementia of the General Manager, has been full of ambition to announce: 2024, the old man I will be re-elected!
Recall that when Russia had not yet moved, the United States arched its fire vigorously, reminded Ukraine, and also announced to the world that the bear was going to fight, and there would be a war in a few months and days. Russia has repeatedly denied it and accused the United States of spreading rumors.
At that time, many countries, including China, thought that Russia and Ukraine would not fight, that is, lao Mei was there and shouted.
Now the whole world understands that the United States at that time was not worried about Russia's invasion of Ukraine, but was afraid that the Russian bear would suppress the fire and not act first. Thus it loses the excuse of dragging the whole of Europe to encircle Russia.
Unfortunately, although Emperor Pu is resolute and calm, his personality background is still the same routine of the Russian masters after all.
He finally failed to hold back, hurriedly punched, seemingly fierce and fierce, but accidentally exposed the dry side of the external strength.
At this moment, the audience around the stands suddenly realized that the Russian army, which even the United States was afraid of three points, was not only not as powerful as imagined, but its conventional weapons and tactics were not in the same dimension as NATO.
No, even Finland and Sweden are now joining NATO hand in hand.
If it were not for this Russian-Ukrainian war, how could it be found that the woolly bear that could scare people to death in the past, these two small countries that had been neutral for more than 70 years and more than 200 years respectively, how dare they so brazenly give Opu the Great eyedrops!
Frankly speaking, Uncle Ding, as a Chinese citizen with a strong Soviet complex, saw that Russia was unable to support itself and fell into a bitter battle, and his heart was also very lost. After all, the whole world knows that if the goose falls and Lao Mei frees her hand, the next step is to gather accomplices to deal with China. Cold lips and teeth, household ruin, we Chinese have to eat and drink the days are only these decades, how to tolerate the tiger to the wolf to be traumatized again!
Of course, from the anti-war standpoint, I hope that the world will be peaceful, just imagine, if this war does not happen, how good it would be! But I also know that with the fiery temper of the Russian bear, this battle will be fought sooner or later, unless the person who is the president is not a pure grandfather who relies on power everywhere, but a calm and gentle woman who is good at cooperation.
Perhaps such assumptions are a bit outrageous. But it doesn't hurt to discuss it. For example, even if a woman were unlikely to be in Russia today, if the German female Chancellor Merkel, who is close to Putin and known as the "grandmother of Europe," were still on the stage, the war might not have happened.
Merkel and Putin, one is a Russian who is fluent in German; the other is a German who is fluent in Russian. Not only are they able to communicate without any obstacles, but they are also only 2 years apart in age. Born in the same era and shouldering heavy responsibilities, the two seem destined to have an unusual friendship. The people who wrote Merkel's biographies confessed: "Merkel and Putin are like a couple." But in fact, the two are indeed "pure friendship".
On April 4 of this year, former German Chancellor Angela Merkel told the public through her own spokesperson that the decision made in 2008 not to accept Ukraine's membership in NATO was correct.
Merkel, who has not appeared in the media spotlight for a long time after her resignation, suddenly said such a thing, which is undoubtedly a helpless sigh at the current war that makes the whole of Europe jump, but what really wants to sigh should actually be the current European political arena, if Merkel is still the German chancellor, can the Russian-Ukrainian war still be fought?
Women may indeed have the advantage of being politicians. For example, in "The Siege of the City", Mr. Qian Zhongshu borrowed Fang Hongzhi's mouth to express the argument that women are suitable for politics and are born as political animals.
Master Qian believes that the virtual is real, to retreat into the advance, these political tricks, women are born all.
He also said that women do not have to study politics, and now politicians have to learn from women to succeed.
According to the research of authoritative figures, women as politicians become heads of state, generally have the following unique advantages: first, they have a stronger ability to cooperate with others; second, women are better at expression, and their ability to win the understanding and support of others is better than that of men; third, women are more sympathetic to the people's hearts and pay more attention to things that are closely related to people's livelihood. So Steven Pinker, a professor of psychology at Harvard, famously said that if women were in charge, the world would be more peaceful.
Since World War II, there have been many female heads of state around the world, such as former Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, Israel's first female Prime Minister Gorda Meier, former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and others. In northern Europe, where feminism is prevalent, it is common for women to be heads of state.
In fact, softness is also a kind of strength. It is a pity that Russia has always lacked this soft power!
At all levels of Russian society, male superiority over women is reportedly a common phenomenon, and even President Vladimir Putin "tends to think that women should stay in the kitchen." This is probably the main reason for the low level of women's political participation.
Affected by this, most of the people who can enter the Russian political arena are "vase" women. The reason for this, I am afraid, must begin with the collapse of the Soviet Union. At that time, the Soviet Union no longer existed, Russia entered the era of free competition, women's participation in politics and deliberations was snubbed, they were pushed to the edge of the political stage, and gradually lost their right to speak.
In fact, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, women in Russia were not only discriminated against politically, but also suffered a great economic impact, and unemployment and poverty made the situation of women more and more difficult. Many women worry about their livelihood all day long, but the Russian Government has not paid enough attention to this problem and has not taken effective measures to provide unemployed women with the opportunity to re-employ, resulting in many unemployed women losing their jobs forever and having to struggle to find a job every day, let alone participate in politics and deliberations.
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Kolontai and Foltseva: The Story of Two Beautiful High-Ranking Officials in the Soviet Era
As mentioned earlier, there are very few Women in Russia who are engaged in politics like the morning star, and women who are officials are not to say that they are compared with the West, nor can they be compared with China. But tracing back to its predecessor, the Soviet Union, women's political participation was vigorously promoted as early as the Lenin period, and the world's first female minister and ambassador, Alexandra Köntai, was born.
Later, during the Khrushchev period, the first female politburo member of the world's communist countries, Ekaterina Foltseva, was born.
Let's start with this Lady Könltane.
Young and beautiful Colognetai
The life of this beautiful woman is wonderful. Originally the daughter of a general under the Russian Tsar, she grew up to be a female revolutionary.
Colognete's reputation as Lenin's comrade-in-arms, an active feminist, and the main advocate of the famous "cup of water doctrine" of sexual liberation was greatly enhanced. When she was young, she was not only extraordinaryly beautiful, but also ice and snow smart, speaking 11 languages in Europe, such as Britain, Germany, France, Sweden, Norway, Finland and other countries, laying the foundation for her to become the world's first female ambassador.
In 1919, Könlntai, as the only woman to enter the leadership of the Soviet government, became a People's Commissar (Minister) of Public Welfare.
Kollontai's real name was Shula, and he inherited his mother's rebellious personality from an early age, falling in love with a young officer named Kollontai before he was 20 years old. The young officer was poor and not very intelligent, and the woman's parents strongly opposed it, and even sent their daughter to Western Europe to break up the mandarin ducks.
But the daughter wanted to marry, no one could stop it, and after marriage, she changed her name to Colonte according to her husband's surname. But within a few years, Kollontai was tired of his marriage. She writes romance novels and turns the story of the heroine of the novel into reality.
Young Könlten with first husband and son
In 1898, Kolontai abandoned her husband and young son and fled to Europe for political reasons.
The two did not formally divorce until 1916, after which Kolontai still used the surname of her ex-husband Kolontai, and did not change back to his pre-marital surname, Domontovich.
After regaining her freedom, Kolontai's romance became more and more endless, and it is said that many of the famous political figures of the era were her lovers. Because Kolontai looks much younger than her actual age, she only chooses men who are younger than herself.
In October 1916, Sriapnikov, one of Kolontai's lovers, took her to lenin for the first time. Lenin said: "If Comrade Kolontai were to come to our side, I would be happy from the bottom of my heart. ”
Kolontai's entry into the Bolshevik camp brought her energy, drive and prestige. More importantly, she became Lenin's staunch ally.
Of course, devoting himself to the blood-boiling revolutionary cause did not delay the romantic footsteps of Kolontai's new lover.
In 1917, at the age of 45, Kolontai met Debenko, who was 17 years younger than himself.
In middle age, Kolontai was elegant and noble, but still charming
Debenko was then serving as the People's Commissar of the Navy of the Bolshevik Army, also equivalent to the rank of minister. This man was an icon of the Red Fleet, who sailed the cruiser Aurora on the Neva to St. Petersburg and fired at the Winter Palace, the headquarters of the Provisional Government, during the November Revolution of November 1917. In a group photo of the first government, he and Kolontai are next to Lenin.
Debenko, who came from a peasant background and had never been to school, was young but had a big beard. Kolontai met Debenko when he went to the Navy Camp in the spring of 1917 and fell in love with both.
Kolontai has remained free since breaking up with her husband, refusing any request for a lover to marry. But this time Debenko did not do it, and he and Kolontai became the first couple after the promulgation of the Bolshevik marriage law. Kolontai's former lovers quarreled when they heard this, but their vinegar intentions had a grandiose excuse: the name Kolontai had become a banner of women's independence, "Are you going to put away this flag for his sake now?" ”
Debenko eventually married the beautiful Xu Niang. He said that if Kolontai did not want to marry him, he would look down on his peasant origins.
In January 1918, the two senior ministers of the Soviet government were officially married.
Kolontai and her second husband, Debenko
Kolontai's marriage became news not only in the Soviet Union, but also in Europe and the United States: two revolutionaries were married, one was a super talented female intellectual who was rich and five cars, and the other was a strong man who was almost illiterate, and the woman could almost be the man's mother, and this woman had always regarded celibacy as a prerequisite for women's freedom.
But you have to admit that there is a kind of "true love" in the world, which is so mysterious, so illogical, so incredible.
Unfortunately, Kolontai's second marriage, because of Debenko's betrayal, ended a few years later.
In 1922, after the divorce, Kolontai became Soviet minister and foreign trade representative in Norway. She began a new relationship with the Frenchman Marcel Bodi in Oslo, norway.
Kolontai with Marcel Bodi in the office
Later, Kolontai also served as Soviet Minister to Sweden. At the end of World War II in 1945, Kolontai, who had reached her old age, returned to the Soviet Union and had been recuperating at a clinic in Moscow due to physical problems. For the next 7 years, she was confined to her apartment in a wheelchair. Despite being semi-paralyzed, Kolontai, who has been busy all his life, insists on advising his younger colleagues on international political issues.
Later in his life Kolontai
On March 9, 1952, Kolontai died of a heart attack at the age of 80.
Then there is Foltseva, a high-ranking official of the CPSU known as the "First Lady of Moscow".
Thanks to her beautiful appearance and elegant dress, she was named "First Lady of Moscow" by foreign media.
Ekaterina Foltseva's life was both colorful and full of ups and downs. Her personal destiny reflects the complex and changeable historical background of Soviet society.
Regarding the former Soviet high-ranking female official, an article on a Russian website reads:
There is a view that in the second half of the 20th century, no woman on the mainland was able to reach such high political heights and achieve such an incredible career as Catherine Foltseva. She was Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee, a member of the Presidium of the CPSU Central Committee (Politburo), first secretary of the Moscow Municipal Party Committee, and Minister of Culture of the USSR for nearly 14 years.
She was born on December 7, 1910. In this beautiful little blonde, she was born with a special temperament. This allowed her to leap up the career ladder and surpass the worldly male officials. This woman reached its peak and was once one of several people who decided the fate of the country.
In December 1910, Foltseva was born into a Working-Class family in Russia. After graduating from junior high school, he entered the weaving factory where his mother worked. But what awaited her was a different fate. At the age of 20, Foltseva joined the CPSU. She was sent to the Kursk region to engage in agricultural cultivation. There, the energetic and clever Foltseva was absorbed into the work of the Communist Youth League.
At a congress, Foltseva met the head of the Komsomolskaya at the Saratov Aviation Technical School, a handsome pilot, and the two fell in love and married. Her husband wants her to be a good wife and mother, but she thinks staying at home is like a caged bird. Foltseva longed for a vast world. In the 1920s and 1930s, when the Soviet state underwent earth-shaking changes, Foltseva felt that she could not break away from the ever-changing new life. In the intense and busy work, she is full of energy.
In the mid-1930s, Foltseva followed her husband to Moscow and was recommended by the Central Committee of the Soviet League to study at the Institute of Precision Chemical Technology.
However, when the Great Patriotic War broke out and Foltseva gave birth to her daughter in 1942, her husband, who was fighting on the front, wrote to tell her that he had a new love and announced that he had broken up with her.
The strong Foltseva asked her mother to help with the child, and she turned to busy official duties.
She was appointed secretary of the Frunze district party committee of the COMMUNIST Party of the Soviet Union in Moscow, and the first secretary of the district committee, Peter Boguslavsky, was very fond of Foltseva and brought her to his side. Later, because Boguslawsky was implicated in a case, he was dismissed from his post and expelled from the party, and the lover relationship between the superior and subordinate secretaries was forced to end.
A colleague of Foltseva recalled: "In those days, there was a popular view of female party workers: there was wisdom, but appearance was not attractive. Foltseva, on the other hand, has both intelligence and a charming appearance. She is indeed beautiful. She applies to the concept of proud beauty. There is no slightest mannerism. Well-tailored skirt, snow-white shirt, lace cuffs and collar, high heeled leather shoes. The secretaries of the Moscow district committees admired her and admired her, and she knew this..."
Foltseva, who was in the limelight in the Soviet bureaucracy for a while
In 1948, Foltseva was promoted to first secretary of the Frunze District Committee, and two years later as second secretary of the Moscow Municipal Committee.
In 1952, Foltseva was elected alternate member of the Central Committee of the CPSU.
After Khrushchev came to power, Foltseva, who was very close to him (there were many rumors about Foltseva's relationship with Khrushchev), became the first secretary of the Moscow Municipal Committee. Then he entered the Presidium and Secretariat of the Central Committee of the COMMUNIST Party of the Soviet Union and became one of the leaders of the great Soviet Union.
In the 1950s, when Khrushchev led a Soviet delegation to China for the first time, an anecdote occurred when Foltseva, as a member, followed the First Secretary on a visit to Guangzhou. Tao Zhu, then the first secretary of the Central and Southern Bureau, hosted a banquet to entertain Soviet VIPs, and there were two famous Dishes from Guangzhou, "Dragon tiger bucket" and "dragon and phoenix bucket", dragon and tiger fighting was made of snake meat and cat (i.e. civet) meat, and dragon and phoenix bucket was snake meat stewed chicken. The guests listened to Tao Zhu's introduction and were too frightened to move their chopsticks, and the two female guests, Forceva and Nasrijinnova, were so frightened that they cried on the spot, causing the host of hospitality to be embarrassed.
Officially, Foltseva gave the vivid impression that she never spoke at the meeting without a script, spoke fluently and enthusiastically, and was able to admit unexpected mistakes and repent and admit mistakes.
Forceva in middle age
During her tenure as a moscow leader, Foltseva became acquainted with Feliubin, a career diplomat. Although it was thought that Feliubin was an empty-eyed, female-obsessed scumbag with a wife at home. But the new love affair washed over Secretary Foltseva's mind, and she had no scruples or embarrassment, nor did she hide anything from the outside world.
Young diplomat Feliubin
Although their romance became the subject of discussion in Moscow for a while, in the eyes of everyone, Foltseva often flew from Moscow to Prague or Belgrade to meet her lovers who had successively become ambassadors.
Five years later, when Feliubin was put forward as deputy foreign minister, they married.
Folceva and Feliubin
Foltseva saw men's games very well and had to accompany them, to feast on festive feasts, to drink vodka, and to listen to rude, sometimes obscene jokes. And in the matters of daily life, she also has uncomfortable places in the society of men. Even going to the toilet is no exception. The women's toilet is at the other end of the building. The Presidium of the CPSU Central Committee met in the building, and she had to walk through a long corridor to go to the toilet.
But once it helped her a lot.
In 1957, Leaders Malenkov, Kaganovich, Molotov and others hatched a conspiracy against Khrushchev. Malenkov, Kaganovich, and Molotov gathered together to plot to overthrow their political opponents. Many of Khrushchev's followers did not attend the meeting of the Presidium of the Central Committee.
Foltseva, who attended, understood in which direction the scale should be tilted. But how could she help Khrushchev?
So she asked to go out and make it easier. She knew she had enough time not to be aroused into suspicion. She ran into her office and began calling to persuade the relevant personnel to come to the presidium meeting, including Marshal Zhukov.
Zhukov came and immediately announced that no tank was allowed to be used without his orders. The conspiracy went bankrupt, and Khrushchev remained in his place.
By 1960, however, Khrushchev had received reports that Foltseva had "said extra words" during a phone call with another member of the Central Committee, Aristov.
Soon, Foltseva was dismissed as secretary of the Central Committee on the grounds that she had illegally built luxury villas on the outskirts of Moscow.
That day, Foltseva was holding a regular meeting in her office when she suddenly walked into a man, without a word, and cut the government phone on her desk. Foltseva could not stand all this. Back at home, he cut his veins, but fortunately, his girlfriend came to visit and found this scene in time, saving Foltseva's life.
Khrushchev and other leaders did not expect Fortseva to react in this way. The stubborn, steely-willed Foltseva was also a weak woman—a discovery that shocked them and made Lao He pity her.
On Foltseva's 50th birthday, Khrushchev, Brezhnev, Mikoyan, and others came to congratulate her. She received many gifts, the most valuable of which were the Order of Lenin and the news that her husband had been elected alternate member of the Central Committee. Previously, she had been appointed Minister of Culture. Although, compared with the secretary of the Central Committee, the position has declined, Foltseva is still grateful: she is a person who cannot live without a job.
In the early sixties, Forceva and Khrushchev and his wife
Public opinion commented on Foltseva's tenure as Minister of Culture of the USSR: "She was often willful, tough and harsh, sometimes "unjust", but most of the reasons for this were due to the circumstances of the time, rather than her character and character. At that time, some people accused her of lack of education, lack of understanding of music and painting. Always intuitively forbidden what she didn't understand. For her, there were no idols other than "Soviet ideals". As a result, during her tenure, Western rock bands never visited the Soviet Union, and often some works were revoked and banned.
She also ordered the consolidation of all Cossack song and dance troupes into one, "in order to save the state money." Some literary and artistic celebrities were forced to leave their hometowns, which also happened during her tenure. It was her "mistake", but none of it was "self-interested". More often than not, she's willing to listen and understand— and all who interact with her don't deny that.
Fortseva was straightforward and did not like intrigue and trickery, unlike many literary figures, who in real life were far from the embodiment of virtue: they often exposed their peers when they asked Forceva for help. But most of the revelations have been "shelved" by Foltseva, indicating that she actually does not like the whole trick behind it.
Accompanied Khrushchev to the opening ceremony of the cultural exhibition
In the mid-sixties, with Brezhnev coming to power, Foltseva began to have serious problems at work, and she spent a lot of effort to "sit firmly in the chair of the minister". At this time, her family also had a situation, her husband Feliubin had an affair, and Foltseva fell into depression and began to complain about unbearable migraines and angina.
By the 1970s, official corruption in the Soviet Union was rife. Foltseva embezzled the parquet floors used to decorate the Grand Theater and built a villa for her daughter.
The fact that she was corrupt was reflected in the Central Committee, and the Politburo decided to hold a meeting to criticize her.
At this time, Foltseva said: "There is nothing to blame me, look at yourself." ”
Then, the people were silent.
Late one night in October 1974, when Foltseva's husband returned from his mistress, he found that his wife had died at home at the age of 63 due to acute heart failure.
Fortseva's tombstone at the Novodevichy Cemetery in Moscow
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Concluding three points
The article written here by Shinma Yusuke seems to have a feeling that there are two or three themes.
If that's the case, let's take it all together!
Finally, to sum up, I would like to express three main meanings:
First, the Russian nation dominated by men is too rigid, easy to be impulsive and rough, sometimes disregarding strength, blindly doing things, always wanting to speak with fists, and as a result, the head is broken and bleeding, and it is difficult to ride a tiger.
Second, if Russia has a little more peaceful and gentle influence in politics and a more flexible body, it may prompt its diplomatic space to have more room for maneuver, helping to improve the inherent impression of the world's countries around the world, without making too many enemies.
Third, from the Soviet era to the present, although the status of women has improved, the experience of their famous female high-ranking officials has not been able to get rid of the traces of the beauty "vase". And in the coming period, Russia is afraid that it will also be "the sound of the waves", and it is difficult to produce a female politician like Merkel who does not rely on her appearance and beauty, but relies on her character, wisdom and ability to lead the country.
Mencius said: "Man will repent of himself and then repent of it, the family will destroy itself and then destroy it, and the kingdom will cut itself down and then man will cut it down." ”
Hopefully, Russia, Ukraine, and the United States will understand why.