Аннотация: MMMDCLXIII. Word of honor. A story. - May 25, 2025.
Word of honor. A story.
The first secretary of the City Committee, in order to improve his health and to be closer to the common people, went to the Kremlin (to Politburo meetings, plenums and congresses) on foot.
Every time the first secretary passed by the newspaper Detskaya Pravda [Childish Truth] building, he saw a man standing at attention.
The seasons changed, the weather changed, and the time of day changed, but the man continued to stand outside the building of the newspaper Detskaya Pravda.
He doesn't look like an idiot...
The first secretary of the city committee should be aware of everything that is happening in the city.
After the next important event, in the evening, in the dark, the first secretary approached the standing man and asked why he was standing.
"As a child, I worked here, in the editorial office, as a courier. A horseman rode up here, on a horse. He said he was "gaidar" and he ordered me to stand guard. I will be standing here until gaidar will cancel his order."
The first secretary went away for several minutes. Soon a black car pulled up, and the first secretary of the city committee and a short, fat man got out.
Night fell, and the office attendant could be heard turning the key in the lock and closing the front door.
"I order you to stop standing guard, I order you to go to the editorial office!" the short, fat man said sternly.
"Only gaidar can order me to leave my post! I gave my word of honor that I would stand guard!"
A short, fat man took out a document (an ID card), opened it and showed the man: "Read it!"
"... Gaidar..." the man read in confusion.
The man standing guard somehow straightened up, stretched out and became a few centimeters taller.
"I order you to go into the editorial office!"
"Yes, sir!" The man left his post (in front of the editorial office) and went into the premises.
"Well done,- gaidar said. - You will be a good editorial employee. Bye."
Leonid Panteleev, the office attendant, opened the door for the man, led him into the office and pointed to a table and a chair.
The first secretary boarded a tram and went to the Kremlin. The short, fat man got into a black car and drove to his official building.
A man (after the standing in front of the editorial office) entered the room for editorial employees and wrote a text "Word of honor" (about gaidar - a horseman riding ahead).
May 25, 2025, 09:18
Translation from Russian into English: May 25, 2025 11:21
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