The thin man with a sharp nose immediately caught the attention of the audience. Everyone listened to him with interest. He talked about the struggle sweeping the country and called on young people to unite around the * * * production party. He speaks like a real speaker, and uses many words such as "orthodox Marxist" and "social chauvinist", which is obviously incomprehensible to the audience.
When he finished speaking, the audience burst into warm applause. He let Xie take the message and walked first.
What Xie feared really happened. He will never speak.
"What do you say? What are you talking about? " He thought hard and wanted to say it, but he couldn't find the right words. He felt embarrassed.
Ignati Yeva dismissed him from his post. She whispered to him from behind the desk, "Let's talk about organizing the branch."
Seryosha immediately talked about practical problems: "Comrades, you all heard it just now. Now we need to set up a branch. Who is in favor of this proposal? "
The meeting was silent.
Rita came out to help. She told everyone about the youth organizations in Moscow. Xie stood awkwardly.
He was annoyed that the people present at the meeting were so indifferent to the establishment of the branch. He throws unfriendly glances at the audience from time to time. People didn't listen to Rita carefully.
Mr Livanov looked at Rita contemptuously and whispered something to Lisa. The senior girl sitting in the front row whispered with powder on her nose and her sly eyes were going round and round. In the corner near the entrance to the stage, there are several young Red Army soldiers. Seyosha saw the young machine gunner he knew there. He sat on the edge of the stage and looked at lisa su Harikko and Anna Ademovskaya in very fashionable clothes with hatred. They talked to the boys who were after them like nobody's watching.
Lida found that no one was listening to her, so she hastily ended and let Ignatieva go on. "Ignativa spoke unhurriedly, and the meeting was finally quiet.
"Young comrades," she said. "Each of you can seriously think about what you heard here. I believe many comrades among you are willing to take an active part in the revolution, rather than stand idly by. The door to the revolution is open. It's up to you to participate or not. I hope you can also talk about it. If a comrade wants to speak, please speak. "
There was another silence at the meeting. Suddenly, someone in the back row shouted, "Let me say something!"
Mishka Lev Chukov squinted a little and looked like a bear. He squeezed into the stage.
"Since this is the case and I am helping the Bolsheviks, then I won't sayno. Seryosha knows me and I signed up for the league."
Xie took it and smiled happily. He rushed to the center of the stage and said, "Comrades, did you see it? I told you, Mishka is one of us, and his father is a switchman. Mishka played truant when the train ran over him. Although he didn't finish high school, he understood our profession as soon as he said it. "
At this time, the venue was noisy. A middle school student named O 'Kushchev asked to speak. He is the son of a drugstore owner with a strange flying head. He stepped onto the stage, adjusted his uniform and said, "I'm very sorry, comrades." I don't know exactly what you want us to do.
Want us to engage in politics? So when do we study? We must finish high school. If we organize a sports association, a club, where we get together and read some books, that's another matter. But now we are asked to engage in politics and will eventually be hanged. Sorry, I don't think anyone wants to do such a thing. "
Laughter rang out from the meeting place. Mr Kushchev jumped off the stage and sat down. At this moment, the young machine gunner came out to speak. He pulled his cap to his forehead, glanced angrily at the audience and shouted, "What are you laughing at?" You bastards! "
His eyes are like two red-hot coals. He took a deep breath, shaking with anger, and then said, "My name is Ivan Zarki. I have never seen my father or my mother. I have been a helpless orphan since I was a child. Begging during the day, lying under the wall at night, hungry and cold, no place to live. Life is not as good as dogs. Compared with you ladies and rich children, it's completely different!
"The Soviet regime came and the Red Army took me in. The platoon treated me as their own son, gave me clothes, shoes and socks, taught me culture, and most importantly, taught me the truth of being a man. It was they who educated me and made me a Bolshevik. I won't change my mind until I die. Now that I have a clear mind, I know why I want to fight: for us, for the poor, for the working class regime. But what about you? But like a herd of stallions, they keep barking here. Where do you know, at the gate of this city, two hundred comrades died and left us forever ... "Zardari's voice clanged like a taut string. "For our happiness, for our cause, they gave their lives without hesitation ... Now people are bleeding and dying all over the country and on various battlefields. At this time, you will come to have fun. " He suddenly turned around and said to the person who presided over the meeting, "And you, comrades, find them, find such a group of people to come to the meeting." He pointed his finger at the audience. "Don't they understand? No way! A full man knows that a hungry man is hungry. Only one person here answered the call because he was poor and an orphan. Without you, we will still do it. " He shouted at the audience angrily. "We are not here to beg you, what's the use of people like you! You are only suitable for eating machine gun bullets! " He shouted the last sentence angrily, jumped off the stage and walked straight to the door without lifting his eyelids.
None of the people who presided over the meeting stayed for the party. On the way back to the Revolutionary Committee, Seryosha said gloomily, "It's a complete mess! Zaki is right. Looking for these middle school students to come to the meeting backfired and became angry. "
"Nothing strange." Ignatius and Eva interrupted him and said. "There are almost no proletarian youth among these people. Mostly petty bourgeoisie, or urban intellectuals and ordinary citizens. Work should be carried out among workers. You should pay attention to sawmills and sugar factories. However, today's conference is still rewarding, and there are also good comrades among the students. "
Rita agrees with Ignatie Yeva. She said: "Seyosha, our task is to instill our thoughts and slogans into everyone's mind. The party should make all workers care about every new thing. We will hold a series of mass meetings, seminars and congresses. The political department of the division is going to open a summer amphitheater in the station. The publicity train will arrive in a few days, and the work will be fully rolled out immediately. Remember, Lenin said: If we can't attract millions of working people to participate in the struggle, we won't win. "
It was already late at night, so Sheila took Rita back to the station. When he left, he held her hand tightly and let go after a while. Lida smiled slightly.