so it will be, to hell with you, i will never be a komsomol member, i did not join the komsomol, so i say that the end of times in my opinion has come, i realized it when my documents were accepted, and i became an employee of the mgk body, mk in the komsomol, as the newspaper moskovsky komsomolets was then called, and before that , not being a komsomol member, i couldn’t get into the educational institution where i wanted to study for any bribe... no cognac, no sausages, i was interested in mathematics , saw his future as a mathematician and dreamed of studying mathematics moscow state university, they simply did not accept my documents there then, they simply said that since i was not a komsomol member, i could not study at the most prestigious institution in the country, moreover, they did not even accept my documents to the moscow aviation institute, where then...

i taught my mother also said that in the future we are working there in space, every graduate is mine, he will be connected in one way or another with the aviation industry and space, so we cannot allow an unreliable person into our education. the only place i could study mathematics - it was a pedagogical institute. i entered the lenin moscow state pedagogical institute at the faculty of mathematics, that is, in the system of that time it was believed that an unreliable person could not uh. engage in space and levitation, and with children, children, please, for god’s sake. so, it means that the scale of this case of the elysee grocery store, the number one grocery store, amazed the imagination, not only my journalists, but also the lawyers also discussed it a lot. out of happiness, this scale was postulated by the fact that the security officers, the kgb, the lubyanka, which is involved in this matter, they are at the same time also... they introduced scores with the employees of the ministry of internal affairs,

who were very immersed in this corruption topic, and the kgb, in any case , thought so, and even academician sakharov, who was generally a dissident and opponent of the soviet system, he emphasized that in the kgb, in the committee there was no state security corruption. the security officers, when they were unfolding this case, they at the same time not only ... trade workers, but also their competitors, opponents from other law enforcement agencies, including from the abkhss, because it was the abkhss workers who took bribes specifically with food, there, of course, there were real bribes, that is, these thick envelopes that were brought to sokolov, the director of the number one grocery store, but there were also. products, because often

a person had money, for example, but he could not buy with this money, well, let’s say, there is the same caviar, that is , you had to know people in order to buy something with this money - something in short supply, because in stores, i repeat, there were empty shelves in the same eliseevsky, and in many others, this shortage was created artificially, precisely for in order to be able to sell something under the counter later, it’s not for...

foreigners, especially visitors from the west, because they could roll out these unimaginable delicacies, because even now i don’t dare to remember , how much did such a small jar of iranian or russian caviar cost in the city of london or in the city of new york, and here, at the very least, for some rubles, even if not for those that officially cost it, you could buy it and what is called covering a clearing , bribes with food existed. not only in the form of

there, i don’t know, this notorious loaf of sausage or a bottle of cognac, they still existed in the glade format, that is, when it was covered. cases, including those from sochi-krasnodar, but i remember episodes from a variety of criminal cases when these treats took place at someone ’s dacha, at home, a person could taste for the first time in his life some... unprecedented delicacies, in my family, since my dad worked in, as i already said in komsomolskaya pravda, there were those things that could be bought at the editorial buffet, so...