Do not leave, stay with me

You will laugh, but almost all Soviet leaders, at least the most important, were resigned. But they were not released.

Lenin - He did not even ask in February 1918, but threatened to quit everything to hell , demanding from members of the Central Committee of the RSDLP (b) consent to the requirements of the Kaiser command. Ultimatum Ilyich was worse than German. The Bolshevik Sinclite voted for the Brest world, and the leader graciously remained at the post.

How many times I wanted to resign Stalin, you can get out of the account. The last time in his life, he announced his intention to rest in October 1952 at the Plenum of the Central Committee of the KPCC, which was preceded by the XIX party congress. The story about this event was left in the book "through the eyes of the man of my generation" Konstantin Simonov, who was elected at the congress as a candidate for members of the Central Committee:

"Stalin, standing on the rostrum and looking into the hall, spoke about his old age and that he was not able to fulfill all the responsibilities that he was entrusted to ..."

Hearing Stalin's request to free him from the duties of the Secretary General, Malenkov, Simonov writes, reacted first:

“Malenkov’s face, his gestures, his hands expressively gestured were a direct prayer to all those present immediately and decisively refuse Stalin in his request. And then, drowning out already from the back of Stalin, the words:“ No, we ask to stay! ”, Or something in this spirit, the hall hummed the words:“ No! It is forbidden! Please stay! Please take our request back! "

"Immediately and decisively!" And then the most important thing follows:

"... Malenkov's face, I remember this well, was the face of a man who had just passed a direct, real mortal danger ..."

Why did Malenkova survive mortal horror? Yes, because it was he, Malenkov, who was considered the successor to the father of the peoples.

Khrushchev’s resignation was forced, but formally he himself asked for liberation, and she was satisfied - this is the only case. According to a number of informed people, Leonid Brezhnev repeatedly asked for retirement, but each time was discouraged by colleagues in the Politburo. Voluntarily resigned the powers of the USSR President Mikhail Gorbachev - for the lack of a state that he could lead. Finally, Boris Yeltsin did not wait for his second term, but he did not write statements anywhere, but simply issued a decree and announced the people about his decision.

So, before, it happened that the leader wanted to leave or pretended to be, but they didn’t give him, they persuaded him to stay, since there was always an opportunity. Now the situation is diametrically opposite: the leader wants to stay, it is not necessary to persuade him, but there is no legal opportunity. However, not moderately, the retired artists are still persuaded .

Here is the representative of the people of Tkachikha Elena Lapshina correctly raised the question at the congress of "United Russia". “There are many large bosses in the hall,” she said from the rostrum. “Let's think of Putin to remain our president after 2008.” The call of a noble weaver met a hot response. “The hall smiled joyfully,” the Russian newspaper reporter reports , “applauded, and the president was embarrassed to pray.” Prayer here.

No, you heard? Do not "leave," but "let's figure out how to leave." The very essence of the problem is captured. That is, large bosses and art masters must mobilize their creative potential and come up with a procedure, script, a plan, how to preserve his post to the president. And then everything is himself. The question is: why does he, as the letter said, conducts a “wise state policy”, which “allowed Russian culture to gain a new life”? Do not tell the president about how "we highly value your huge achievements in all areas of Russia's life." You are not surrounded by care - come up with, create, and do not drip annoyingly! But they did not come up with anything and continue to vine.

Either the case is the abbess of the Spaso-Eleazarovsky Monastery Igumen Elisaveta. She writes to the president without Equal: "The people are a child, but he feels with his wise heart, whom the Lord chooses, and believes the chosen one."

Ah yes mother igumen! What are the elections? The Lord chose. And the people are a child, with him a short conversation. After all, this is a concept. Only a remark to the message: why does she turn to the anointed "Your Enindering"? Here's how :

"The dinner was already over, the sovereign got up and, eating the biscuit, went out onto the balcony. The people, with Petya in the middle, rushed to the balcony.

• Angel, father! Hurray, father! .. - the people and Petya shouted, and again women and some men are weaker, including Petya, cried with happiness. A rather large biscuit frag, which the sovereign held in his hand, broke off, fell on the railing of the balcony, from the railing to the ground. Closest the stood coachman in the subdivision rushed to this piece of biscuit and grabbed him. Some of the crowd rushed to the coachman. Noticing this, the sovereign ordered to give himself a plate of biscuits and began to throw biscuits from the balcony. Petit's eyes were filled with blood, the danger of being crushed even more excited him, he rushed at the biscuits. He did not know why, but it was necessary to take one biscuit from the king’s hands, and it was necessary not to succumb. He rushed and knocked down an old woman who caught a biscuit. But the old woman did not consider herself defeated, although she lay on the ground (the old woman caught biscuits and did not hit her hands). Petya knocked her hand with his knee, grabbed the biscuit and, as if afraid to be late, screamed again "Hurray!", Already in a hoarse voice. "

The authors of the appeal to the president have long been overeated by biscuits of all varieties, and still cannot get rid of the instinct of the struggle for royal mercy.