Many little-known plots and details disclosed in The Fate of the Presidents of KGB (written by Leonid Melychin, a famous Russian writer and political commentator), among the 24 security department leaders including Putin, shelepin impressed me deeply. Shelepin became famous at the age of 24. In the autumn of 1941, shelepin, then secretary of the Moscow Municipal Committee of the Communist Youth League, was in charge of military sports. The famous Zhuoya was sacrificed after shelepin approved her to join the guerrillas. Later, shelepin won the Red Star Medal and was soon transferred to the Central Committee of the Youth League of * * *. On December 25th, 1958, 4-year-old shelepin became the chairman of the National Security Council. After the 22nd National Congress, he was elected as the secretary of the Central Committee. During his tenure as chairman of the KGB, shelepin resolutely condemned the repression in 1937, and he tried to rehabilitate those who suffered injustice. These strategic events are not much to say; I think it is particularly worth mentioning the tactical incident mentioned by the author of this book, that is, after becoming a member of the Central Presidium, shelepin made a tactical mistake. What kind of tactical mistakes did shelepin make? There are roughly a few: first, no guards. Brezhnev once asked this question: Why didn't shelepin travel with guards? Shelepin said: Do we need protection? Second, oppose the appearance of portraits everywhere. Shelepin said that he was ashamed that he was standing on the Lenin's Mausoleum and the workers were holding his portrait during the parade. Why should the portrait of the leader be displayed everywhere? The members of the Central Presidium were silent. At this time, suslov, the secretary of the Central Committee, interjected: This is a tradition. This reflects the prestige of the party. Third, pay for the renovation of the apartment according to the order. Shelepin moved into an apartment, which has been renovated. He asked how much it cost. After finding the documents and showing them to him, he ordered his assistant to pay according to the order. The emergence of such unprecedented events made members of the Politburo indignant: shelepin embarrassed them so much! Do you want them to pay for everything now? Fourth, you are welcome to support the newspaper. The * * * Youth Pravda published a sharp article to expose some activities of Solyanik, the captain of the Odessa whaling fleet, who won the favor of the authorities. The Central Secretariat decided to severely punish journalists. Shelepin was the only one who immediately said, Why? Can anyone deny these facts? Fifth, it is opposed to the members of the Politburo honoring themselves. While working in the KGB, shelepin himself gave up the rank of general. Moreover, shelepin also said that members of the Politburo were divorced from the masses. Sixth, in the Politburo, it is proposed to reconsider a series of privileges provided for leaders. This involves wages, villas, special supplies, cars and so on. Shelepin, who is a honest and frank, is not good at beating around the bush. So, members of the Politburo are afraid of him and start to avoid him. Because of these things, shelepin set himself against other members of the Politburo and made these people his enemies, which was shelepin's tactical mistake. In these shelepin-style things, some have direct interests with other Politburo members, and some seem to be only shelepin's own business, but they also have indirect relations with others. You don't want privileges, but privileges are already stipulated by the system; You don't love interests, but interests are also vested in you by the system; You love the masses, but let the workers give a portrait or something, isn't it divorced from the masses? You don't want to be corrupt, but decorating a house with public funds is not a big corruption, is it? Power corrupts people, and shelepin's friends believe that shelepin is an exception. Well, you are an exception, you are different, you are incompatible with others, and you don't want to be assimilated. Then, what awaits you is doomed to be rejected. As the famous German writer Hesse said: Power itself also lurks the seeds of destruction and danger. Soon, Brezhnev kicked shelepin out of the Politburo. Interestingly, shelepin, a former chairman of the KGB, was kicked out of politics and immediately placed under the surveillance of the KGB. His conversation was eavesdropped at any time, everything was monitored, and his every move was recorded. In such an institutional environment, no matter how angular a person is, he can always find a millstone to grind him into powder. Shelepin was sent to retire in 1984. Shelepin's pension is very small, and he lived in poverty in the last few years. If he got the rank of general when he was working in KGB, his pension would be considerable. Ten years after retirement, shelepin died of a heart attack in 1994. Does character decide fate, or does quality decide fate? Fate finally played a cruel joke on shelepin: shortly before his death, he went back to his hometown of Voronezh and found the house where he lived. He wanted to go into the house where he grew up, but the hostess didn't agree, because she couldn't remember who shelepin was.