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The most important thing is the papers
For a long time, I remembered the report meeting of one of the former party organizations of the former Soviet economic division of the Telšiai district, in which I participated as a journalist. First of all, the rapporteur himself, the ordinary mechanic, was puzzled. He had a hard time reading the typewritten text of the report, which was apparently written by someone else, the secretary of the Party’s Economic Committee. He felt that some concepts were completely unknown to the speaker; He spoke those words with great force, as if he were a beginner in reading a new text given by the teacher.
Well, a report written in advance by someone else was read so little by a less literate speaker that it was more difficult to speak. Although meeting participants were apparently warned who would have to speak, the unfortunate still had a hard time.
When people have nothing to talk about, they often talk about the weather. So it was here. A tractor driver stood up, said how much he had plowed the land and promised: if there were no plows, he would plow even more. Another stood up and said similarly: “This year the weather is not very favorable for us. Initially he was allowed to work, and now it rains again, without entering the ground at all. But we will try to lay a good foundation for next year’s harvest. “
This was the (in) ordinary meeting of the Communist Party: after all, it was based on workers and peasants, they had a majority in the party, they supposedly dictated party policy, they at least had to deal with important issues of socialist construction, and here …
Meetings of party organizations from across the economy weren’t at a slightly higher level. Because they had more specialists, teachers, other rural intellectuals, minorities from that party. But again, the talk mostly revolved around daily work. In spring – about preparing for sowing, in autumn – about harvesting, in winter – about technical repairs. And the ordinary parties have never heard of the construction of socialism or communism. It would have sounded ridiculous, like one that sticks out. You had to follow the rules of the game: speak simply and seriously. Therefore, talking about works was the most convenient way to interpret a communist. After all, it was emphasized everywhere that a member of the Communist Party must, first and foremost, do his job well. Many of them also had those responsibilities: to set an example at work, because they could not do something more complex, which required higher education. After all, even those party gatherings only played party work.
I remember that in one of those meetings, an ordinary member of the party summoned by the presidency did not go to speak, he heard what was still being said here, he kept chattering. “Understand, something needs to be recorded,” prayed the secretary.
So the most important thing was to order the paper. Basically only on paper and most of the primary party organizations “worked”. Regardless, they would call a mandatory meeting once a month. Especially during work. After work, there was no point in inviting, the same as catching the wind in the fields.
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