THE FOLLOWING DRAMATIS PERSONAE ARE PARTICIPATING:
Comrade General.
The colonel - a subordinate of the Comrade General.
Adjutant to the Comrade General.
Major Genev.
Duty - subordinate of Major Genev.
Three people in camouflage uniforms without insignia. Among them - a person two meters ten centimeters tall.
Lieutenant Colonel, who is dressed in beret and telnyashka.
The duty officer - a subordinate of the lieutenant colonel.
Two Allied Generals.
The Owner of a huge office-room. An office-room overlooking the Moskva River.
Adjutant to the Owner of a huge office-room.
A girl - Deputy Head of Protocol Service.
LOCATIONS OF ACTIONS:
I. Airport Chief's Office.
II. A huge office overlooking the Moscow River.
Act I.
- Comrade General! The order came from our capital! We must to leave the airport, to move to a new location. Soon we will see our Danube, Comrade General!
- What orders are given about equipment of the airport, about property, colonel?
- About this, comrade general, nothing is said in the order.
The adjutant of the general enters the office-room.
- Comrade General! A group of people in civilian clothes arrived. They appear to be counterintelligence officers. They say that they are from our brothers. They arrived in black Mercedeses of the last brands, Comrade General!
- Stay here for time, Comrade Colonel. Adjutant, invite the visitors.
A person in civilian clothes comes into the office:
- Good day, Comrade General. Let me introduce myself, I am counterintelligence Major Genev. I am arrived according special instructions. Hello to you from Dmitry Fedorovich.
- From Dmitry?
Major Genev takes out the handset of the cell phone, presses the call button, and transfers the handset to the general.
The general takes up the phone and brings it to his ear.
- Dmitry, is that you? Good to hear you! How are you? Major Genev arrived with a special assignment from the high command? I understood everything! See you, Dmitry!
The General appeals to the Colonel:
- We carry out the order, move to a new place of deployment. We leave the airport, equipment, property to our brothers. - Comrade General nods at Major Genev.
Everyone leaves the office-room.
Act II.
- Comrade Major! Local forces arrived. Cars are the most modern. Plus two tanks.
- Invite them!
Three people dressed in camouflage uniforms without insignias enter the office.
One of them, two meters ten centimeters tall, takes a step forward and addresses Major Genev, using a mixture of different languages.
Major Genev silently takes out the handset of the cell phone, presses the call button, and transfers the handset to a tall person dressed in camouflage uniform without insignias.
The tall person takes the phone, brings it to his ear, and suddenly changes his pose, takes off his headdress, bows:
- Yes, effendi! Of course, effendi!
The tall man returns the phone to the Major Genev and says to the attendants:
- Let's go!
A group of people in camouflage uniforms without insignias silently leave the office.
Major Genev and the duty (subordinate of Major) also go out - to watch the visitors' driving off.
Act III.
Major Genev turns on the TV, which is situated in the office-room of the airport chief:
- APCs have reached the controversial airport! - a voice is heard from the TV.
"Arrived at last!" - Major says and goes to the door.
The door opens. A Lieutenant Colonel comes into the office. He is dressed in beret and telnyashka.
- We managed to get ahead of others! We are the first!
- Yes, Comrade Lieutenant Colonel. Everything goes according to plan. You occupy this office, and I will go to the office of the deputy chief of the airport. You carry out the general management, and I look, with my subordinate, after the equipment and property of this airport.
- Come on! For a successful meeting! The whole world is looking at us.
Major and Lieutenant Colonel are patting each other approvingly on the shoulders and backs.
- Here is a rest room. In it there is a bar with good drinks.
The Major and Lieutenant Colonel pass from the office to the rest room through an inconspicuous door.
Act IV.
- Comrade Lieutenant Colonel! The order came from the capital! To hand over the airport to the Allies. An additional information: two Allied Generals arrived.
- Invite them!
The Generals of the Allied forces enter. With them, a man two meters ten centimeters tall, dressed in camouflage uniform without insignias, who had previously visited Major Genev, comes into the office-room.
- Hello! What I can do for you, gentlemen?
One of the Generals speaks, using a satisfactory Russian language:
- We are instructed to accept the airport from you, Lieutenant Colonel.
- That's right. I already have an appropriate order.
One of the Generals takes out two copies of the Airport Acceptance Act and explains:
- Here it is written that at 12-00 local time you hand over the airport to us, and we accept the airport from you.
Generals and Lieutenant Colonel sign the Act of acceptance.
The General hands over one copy of the acceptance certificate to the Lieutenant Colonel, the second copy puts in own folder.
Major Genev enters office-room:
- And property, and equipment? There is as a serviceable one, but there is also a faulty one...
- On this occasion we have no instructions! - one of the Generals answers. The Generals exchange handshakes with the Lieutenant Colonel and Major and leave the office.
A tall man in camouflage uniform without insignias remains in the office.
- There is property and equipment in good condition, and there is broken, rendered unusable, - the Major Genev explains again. - A plane will fly in an hour. The half of the luggage compartment is not filled.
- In the surrounding houses we found some things. Apparently, these are things left over from air passengers. Would like to pass them on to you.
A trolley for baggage of air passengers is rolling into the office-room. There are two suitcases in the cart.
- It's impossible to fill the half of the cargo compartment with two suitcases.
- And in one of the nearby yards we found a trailer for international road transportation. Full trailer.
- That's the something. Let's go to see. The duty! Temporarily place the trolley with suitcases in the accounting room. Do a checking and reinforcing of the security mode!
The Major and the tall man leave the office.
The Lieutenant Colonel goes out through the inconspicuous door behind which the rest room is located.
Act V.
The owner of a huge office comes to the window and looks at the Moscow River.
Adjutant enters:
- Our hero arrived according your order.
- Invite him.
Major Genev enters office-room.
- My congratulations! Let's celebrate?
A girl - Deputy Head of Protocol Service - enters office-room - with a tray on which there are beautiful narrow, long glasses filled Tsimlyansk sparkling wine. Bubbles are rising.
Major Genev is preparing to respond to congratulations and to the proposal.
The girl puts a tray with beautiful glasses on a little table against the wall and goes out.
The owner of the office pours two faceted glasses (granyonye stakani) in full:
- For success!... Here are the awarding documents for you.
A beautiful sheet of paper from the red folder is passed to the Major Genev.
- Be ready. We're preparing your candidacy for promotion.
- I am ready to serve our people!
(Curtain).
2023.
Translation from Russian into English: May 5, 2023 08:53.
Владимир Владимирович Залесский 'Ценный аэропорт. Комическая трагедия'.
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