Not dead, just sleeping deeply. My comp ate the next update and I haven't worked up the energy to re-write it yet. Life is also in the way.I hope this TL doesn't die.
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Not dead, just sleeping deeply. My comp ate the next update and I haven't worked up the energy to re-write it yet. Life is also in the way.I hope this TL doesn't die.
No! Bad comp(uter)! BAD!My comp ate the next update
My guess is he was successful in his 1962 bid for Governor of California.What happened to Richard M. Nixon in this TL?
Furtseva, given the moniker of "Iron Lady" in the West, would go on to have a notoriously rocky relationship with China's Red Widow indeed...
Something about Furtseva (if anyone is interested) - "During my meetings with Svetlana, she somehow began to talk about the fact that Solzhenitsyn's book" The Gulag Archipelago "was kept in the house at that time." I was terribly surprised:possibly Yekatrina Furtseva reflect the built-in evils of their systems, guaranteeing that whoever does run them will be nasty--no matter what their sex.
Something about Furtseva (if anyone is interested) - "During my meetings with Svetlana, she somehow began to talk about the fact that Solzhenitsyn's book" The Gulag Archipelago "was kept in the house at that time." I was terribly surprised:
- And did Mother see this book ?!
- Yes. - Svetlana explained that my mother, seeing the "Archipelago", did not take away sedition, although, of course, she understood that she would surely fall into the hands of Svetlana's classmates, and this is serious ...
This episode did not stop Catherine Alekseyevna in reprimanding Rostropovich, why he put it in his dacha for the author of a scandalous book. The musician only laughed: "Not everyone can boast that he has a Nobel Prize laureate in his janitors."
More about Alexander Isayevich. Furtseva, reporting to the Politburo of the Central Committee of the CPSU about Solzhenitsyn's letter to the Congress of Writers in 1967, described him as a "smart and imperious" person capable of exerting ideologically harmful influence on shaky and unstable people and asked to apply strict measures to him up to expulsion from the country. At the same time she added that some representatives of the artistic intelligentsia, believing that Solzhenitsyn was getting away with everything, began to lose their sense of responsibility for creativity and for their social behavior. "
"Svetlana talked about the tricks, caprices and instinctive instincts of the whole of Moscow, and they also said that this was in many ways the reason for the departure from the life of Ekaterina Alekseevna." It was her daughter who insisted that the parquet should be used for the construction of the summer house in Barvikha. The Bolshoi Theater, and my mother played the whim of a beloved daughter, parquet was laid in. And on Furtseva, according to the denunciation of ill-wishers from the same Politburo, Comrade Pel'she (Party control) first came, and then Kirilenko, who had flown to the top of the owl STI and disliked Furtseva, and finally, he Leonid Ilyich. "
"Memoirs of People's Artist of the USSR Vasily Lanovoy, told to me and preserved in my archive
- We, the actors, do not have to evaluate the statesmen. When they are still alive, they can and should be evaluated, and after leaving it is hardly worth it. Moreover, all the subsequent ministers of culture, whom I observed, did not show a bright spot.
She was, of course, a powerful minister. It is power. Maybe the previous activity determined the style of her work, but it was really a very large person, a big personality. And she led the culture in a powerful way. She could solve colossal issues at that time, without resorting to anyone's help. Not agreeing with anyone. So it was when she appointed Yevgeny Rubenovich Simonov as the artistic director of our theater, then the young director still. And a whole series of such basic assignments on her part were made easily and at the same time very responsibly. What we later observed for many years, I mean ministerial levels, was deprived of this power. Great statehood.
And along with this, Ekaterina Alexeyevna first of all felt like a woman. And behaved as women behave in this or that situation. This is wonderful, in my opinion. Charming, beautiful. I remember the day of the funeral of Ruben Nikolayevich Simonov. The coffin with his body stood in the theater. Many figures, members of the government, actors arrived. On the street in December, frost. I was put on duty, I had to receive the most distinguished guests.
Catherine Alexeevna also arrived. She entered the reception room and what do you think she did? Look for a mirror! Like any woman. And mirrors are all taken out, they are not. I watch how she got agitated, undressed, looked around, looked at me. I must say that she always treated me gently.
And then she says: "Lanovoy, get the mirror." Lanovoy: "I will!". And I knew that one of the mirrors was hidden on the cupboard. I put it there myself. Ekaterina Alekseevna: "And how will I go up there ?!" With a reproachful address to me: "There is no ladder." I say: "Just a minute, Comrade Minister." I put her a chair near the locker. It must be said that Ekaterina Alekseevna was not a heavy woman, but not thin. I'm standing. She tries on this chair, I stretch out her hand, she with a light reproach: "Guessed finally." I got up on a chair, which, it must be said, was flabby. Suddenly, under Yekaterina Alekseevna, he somehow vibrated, and the humor that was always there with her appeared here too: she leaned over me and said: "Well, Lanovoy, keep the minister by the feet, otherwise it will follow." And then when she was up there, she put herself in order, she said: "Give me your hand, will I stand here?" I helped her to come down, and she went into the hall.
One more episode. Days of Russian culture passed in Moldova. And I was often sent to read book readings of Mayakovsky. The concert was wonderful, Furtseva was sitting in the government box. Slapping on the shoulder the first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Moldova, which, as it seemed to Catherine Alekseevna, in some ways did not behave nomenklatura, she seemed to point to it. When the concert was over, we were all gathered to thank, to speculate, to whom to give the deserved ...
Standing next to me is Shtokolov, who received the title of People's Artist of the USSR three days ago. For those times such a title was given infrequently. It must be said that Shtokolov sang foul that evening, he let the rooster go. Furtseva came up to us, shook my hand, then looked at Boris Timofeevich and said: "Well, he blurted out, but two days ago the title was given, the devil knows what ..." And she withdrew. Here's another live paint.
There was also such a case, which revealed one more of its quality - responsibility. We were going abroad, and we were gathered in the minister's office for farewell. And at that time there was a film where Mikhail Ulyanov played the role of a traitor. It seems that Volodya Vlasov took it off. Until then Ulyanov played Lenin. Furtseva, approaching us, approached Mikhail Aleksandrovich and said: "After Lenin, Comrade Ulyanov, it was possible to disagree with this abomination." Ulyanov: "I'm an actor and I have to play everything, everything, everything ..." And she answered: "And you still need to have a head". And she went on.
Such expressive sketches. Furtseva was very fond of beautiful actors: both women and men. She was not indifferent to beauty. Once, at the Maly Theater, I watched her look at the handsome men who were passing in front of her, admiring the way she admired us actors. In her eyes I saw an undisguised delight. For her, it was a feast of the soul.
As for the activity on the post of Minister of Culture of a huge power, Ekaterina Alekseevna carried a heavy burden on her female shoulders. Hundreds of museums, libraries, film culture - all this was in her charge. We did not know what delays in wages, humiliation, infringement of culture, which we are now witnessing. All that was allocated to the culture, until the last penny reached it. I would say, more came. Why? Because of its proximity to the highest echelons of power. And when Furtseva culture took pride of place. It was with her.
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- I remember Catherine Alexeyevna Furtseva with a feeling of deep respect and sympathy. In my creative life, she played an extremely positive role.
Furtseva was a kind, indifferent and active person. And her great, I would say, Communist pathos was also sincere. I think that the complete opposite of her was the Secretary of the MC Party Alla Petrovna Shaposhnikova. It seems to be also a party woman, wearing strict suits, white blouses, well-combed, well-groomed. But at the same time, inside - ice, calmness, desire for a career, a cold assessment of any situation, any step was calculated from the point of view of the ideological moment.
Furtseva often took risks at once. For example, when she defended those cultural figures who were not in favor. Some used this, in particular Oleg Efremov, who found the way to her heart. Regularly in the morning the Efremovites used the whole company in her office, and she gradually fell in love with them. Then she began to defend the right and the wrong, and Efremova protested throughout her life. To me, at first, she was wary of a non-partisan Jew, an intellectual who was not seen in the manifestations of passionate patriotic feelings ... Although my biography, judging fairly, was quite remarkable from the point of view of ideology: she voluntarily served in the Navy, after the war with an amazing characteristic (I myself am surprised!) submitted to the order, noting: "is devoted to the cause of the party, Lenin, Stalin." Because of this, I was more or less tolerant of the characteristics, although I allowed myself quite free speech and several times my name was rinsed on the Politburo.
Furtseva was not a dogmatist. She could very sincerely catch fire, inflame an idea, she had the real talent to defend her point of view. Her speeches at the artistic councils convinced us, theater workers, that the country, the culture, faces great challenges and that we must solve these tasks.
Speaking against something or anyone, she, taking responsibility, often took risks.
In the last period of her career, Ekaterina Alekseevna was in disgrace. But Leonid Ilyich kept good relations. When the Satire Theater celebrated its fiftieth anniversary, we wanted the leading actors to be given higher titles. I puzzled over what to do, where to go with it. Just at this time Furtseva was downgraded in status. And I knew that she felt very lonely, worried. I decided to take advantage of this situation and, as if knowing nothing of her difficult situation, I came to her for help and advice. My parish and my request moved her very much, and she undertook with all her fervor and sincerity to work for our actors."
Something about Furtseva (if anyone is interested)
Why an earth would you feel the need to necro this thread with this drivel?
No, comrade, my criticism of his post wasn't born of prejudice but rather his necro of drivel which had nothing to do with this thread. Your accusations of my bias are misplaced.Yes, I was, thank you.
Broken English does not equal drivel.
Neither does a subject matter that happens to lay outside your own interests.
No, comrade, my criticism of his post wasn't born of prejudice but rather his necro of drivel which had nothing to do with this thread. Your accusations of my bias are misplaced.