Servant of the People in Kyiv

Eve is of average appearance, but tall and thin with a good figure. She is a 23-year-old college graduate who just started working this year.

However, he was able to directly enter the State Education Commission as soon as he started working, which shows that he definitely does not come from an ordinary family.

Haniyev treated Eve very politely and thanked her before entering the lounge.

There were already nearly ten people sitting and talking on the leather sofa inside. When they saw Haniyev come in, everyone stood up and looked.

Director Kvit also stood up, folded his hands on his stomach, and said, "Deputy Director Haniyev has arrived. Come, let me introduce you. This is our ninth deputy director, Victor..."

After Kvit introduced Haniyev, there was a round of welcoming applause in the lounge. It was obvious that the eight deputy directors had already known about Haniyev's existence.

Kovit suppressed the applause with both hands, pulled Haniyev and began to introduce the deputy directors one by one. Because Haniyev had met with the eighth deputy director Lyudmila Vlasova yesterday, Kovit skipped her and only introduced the remaining seven people.

After getting to know his colleagues in the leadership team, Haniyev had only one feeling: the State Committee of National Education was a nursing home.

Except for himself and Lyudmila Vlasova, the seven deputy directors in front, six men and one woman, are all elderly people. The older they are, the older they are. The seventh deputy director, Rasputin, is 52 years old, the sixth deputy director is 53 years old, and the older they are, the first deputy director is a 64-year-old man.

As if sensing Haniyev's change of mood, Kvit said with a smile, "This is the current situation in our central ministries. The principals are younger than the deputies, and deputies mostly gain experience. If you work in our ministry for ten years, you could probably make it from ninth deputy director to first deputy director."

Haniyev laughed dryly, and understood in his heart that now old cadres are unwilling to retire to local positions. Moreover, they can enjoy leadership treatment in their positions, but they will be far behind after retirement. Leading cadres also try not to retire. This has led to various ministries and commissions of the central government being filled with older deputies. They just want to stay in their positions for a few more years and enjoy the treatment of central leaders.

How can such a party and country not perish?

Haniyev looked at the many deputy directors who were just sitting in their positions and doing nothing, and felt unhappy about their old but calculating character. He knew that in the current Soviet Union, not only were the grassroots cadres corrupt and seeking privileges, but the senior leaders were even more corrupt. These old guys who were obsessed with power and position were living examples. The more of them there were, the faster the Soviet Union would be destroyed.

With the burden on his heart, Haniyev's smile became a little unnatural. Just then, Haniyeva came in and said, "The meeting time has come. Directors, please enter the venue."

Kvit waved his hand and said, "Let's go, let's have a meeting."

Ten leaders of the National Education Commission walked out of the lounge and into the auditorium, and sat on the rostrum according to their rank.

Haniyev was the youngest member of the committee's leadership team, but also ranked the lowest, so he sat at the very edge.

There were thousands of people in the audience. In the front row were the principals and secretaries of various departments, secondary institutions, some universities, and key high schools. In the back were the staff of various departments and offices of the ministries.

The meeting was chaired by the Eighth Deputy Director Lyudmila Vlasova, who made some brief opening remarks before Director Kovit delivered the important speech.

Kovit started his speech with the General Secretary's reforms and spoke at length, and finally began to introduce the new deputy director Haniyev.

"Now, please allow our young and promising deputy director, Comrade Haniyev, to speak a few words to everyone."

Amidst warm applause, Haniyev turned on the microphone in front of him and said, "I am grateful to the organization for its trust and cultivation, and to the Party for its tempering and education. My abilities have been continuously improved, and I have unknowingly become a deputy provincial cadre in Ukraine. The comrades present here should have heard of my name and have some understanding of me.

I was born in 1960. After graduating from White Church State Agricultural University in 1980, I joined the Kyiv State Forestry Committee. Later, the organization valued me and sent me to the Highland State Farm in the Chernobyl area as the first secretary. It was my first time in a leadership position, and by chance, it coincided with the Chernobyl nuclear leak. At that time...

After the Chernobyl residents were properly treated and the regional administrative system was abolished, the organization promoted me to First Secretary of Yalta City. I knew this was a testament to the Party and the Soviets' love and training, and I dared not slack off in the slightest...

When I arrived in Yalta, I...

In August 1987, I was transferred to the African Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Moscow...

Now, with the organization's trust, I've been promoted to the rank of vice-provincial governor, serving as the ninth deputy director of our National Education Commission. I have some experience in local administration and have received high praise from the General Secretary for my economic reforms. However, I'm still a newcomer in the field of education. I hope to play a role in the education sector as the General Secretary promotes reform, so that Ukraine's educational capacity, level, and foundation can keep pace with the reforms. I need the guidance and help of all my colleagues...

Thank you all. My future work will still require the support of the director, deputy directors, and colleagues..."

Since he stopped serving as the First Secretary of Yalta, Haniyev has rarely had the opportunity to speak at conferences. However, he has indeed received tremendous training in recent years, which has made his language organization skills and ability to control the situation at meetings no less than any department head. So after Kovit gave him the opportunity to speak, Haniyev did not get stage fright. He started by talking about his own work and occasionally inserted some small stories that demonstrated his abilities to mobilize the enthusiasm and interest of the audience.

Haniyev's speech lasted for more than an hour, but the speaker did not seem tired and the audience was in high spirits. Only the deputy directors on the rostrum had already begun to doze off due to their old age and lack of energy.

After Haniyev finished his speech, thunderous applause broke out in the venue. People were very interested in and had a good impression of Haniyev.

Many veteran officials in the audience applauded and said, "A young man has come to the Education Commission, and an outstanding one at that. Perhaps Deputy Director Haniyev can achieve many new achievements!"

Many young cadres were inspired and talked about it after listening to Haniyev's talk about his career and promotion trajectory.

"Deputy Director Haniyev's arrival has given us young cadres hope. I think it's time to kick out those old guys who are just sitting there doing nothing and make way for us young people!"

"That's right, if we don't allow young people to take the lead, how can we lead this country well? We must make more use of young cadres in reform..."

The meeting ended after Kvitovich's final summary speech.

According to previous meeting procedures, participants can have free meals in the cafeteria designated by the Education Committee after the meeting. Since the meeting is held at the University of Kyiv, lunch must naturally be eaten in the cafeteria of the University of Kyiv.

However, directors, deputy directors and directors are different from ordinary cadres after all. They have to go to the second floor of the school cafeteria to eat high-end meals with rich dishes and alcoholic beverages, and they don’t need to pay a penny for it, either individuals or ministries. If the free meals for ordinary cadres during meetings are an invisible benefit for party members and cadres under the leadership of the Soviet Union, then the leaders eating high-end meals is a manifestation of privilege and corruption.

Haniyev had known about this phenomenon for a long time, because it was an open secret that senior officials had special treatment.

Accompanied by the president of Kyiv University, ten leaders, more than thirty directors, and leaders from ten secondary institutions and schools sat down in a private room on the second floor of the restaurant.

This is an independent hall with only five round tables. Next to it are independent toilets and washrooms. One wall is a wine cabinet with crystal glass doors, which is filled with famous domestic and foreign wines.

Kvit, Haniyev and their group sat at the innermost round table, which was occupied by ten leaders of the Education Commission and the president of Kyiv National University. The rest of the directors and presidents also sat at other tables.

The president of Kyiv National University, Ognye Orlovsky, was the previous director of the Education Committee. His rank is equal to Kovit's and his seniority is older than Kovit's. The only function of the Education Committee is to manage some of the business of the National University, but he and Kovit usually get along on an equal footing.

So during the meal, Orlovsky always regarded himself as the host and did not give much face to Kvit and several other deputy directors. He was just very kind when talking to Haniyev and made it clear that he hoped Haniyev would come to Kyiv National University more often to guide the work in the future.

Haniyev naturally would not refuse Orlovsky's kindness and invitation, and agreed after expressing his gratitude.

It was already three o'clock in the afternoon when they finished their meal. Many directors and deputy directors had drunk a few more glasses and were already red-faced and talking nonsense. Kvit was worried that they would make a fool of themselves, so he had the drunk leaders and cadres sent back.

The table suddenly became empty. Kvit smiled and said, "Although the General Secretary's alcohol ban hasn't been explicitly lifted, everyone knows it's no longer a concern. As long as it's not excessive drinking, it's within the permitted range. So, none of us are excessively drunk, right?"

Haniyev smiled slightly, and Vlasova nodded. "Yes, we are all senior officials. How could we drink too much? We just had a couple of drinks to cheer up Deputy Director Haniyev."

Kvit nodded and said, "Let's talk about it at the ministry tomorrow if there's anything."

As Kvit stood up, this luncheon, which symbolized the corruption in the Soviet Union, finally came to an end.

Chapter 174 Division of Work

When Haniyev went to work the day after the Education Committee held a meeting, his colleagues kept greeting him as soon as he entered the hospital, and Haniyev also tried his best to talk to them and get to know them.

After entering his office, Haniyev was just about to make a cup of coffee with the new coffee pot Eve had bought for him when Eve, wearing a navy blue suit, pushed the door open.

"Deputy Director Haniyev, we have received a notification from the Secretariat that a team meeting will be held in the Chairman's Office at 3:00 PM this afternoon. Please attend on time."

Haniyev knew that this team meeting was held for him, and according to the rules, this meeting must assign tasks to him.

When the meeting started in the afternoon, it turned out just as Haniyev had expected. This was a completely routine operation within the system.

After two opening remarks, Director Kvit set the tone.

"Now that Deputy Director Haniyev has arrived and has gotten to know everyone on the Education Commission, it's time to assign him some responsibilities. I spoke with all the deputy directors yesterday, and they're all willing to assign some areas to you. Deputy Director Haniyev, what are your thoughts and prospects for the job?"

Haniyev, who had been on the job for two days, had already gotten a good understanding of the Education Committee's work and did have some ideas. When the director asked him about it, he said directly, "I do have some ideas. I don't want to be in charge of finance, personnel, or party affairs. I mainly want to be in charge of Kyiv University, the Department of Basic and National Education, the Textbook Administration, the Teacher Training Center, and other departments, focusing on university education, teacher training, and our textbooks."

Kvit was quite surprised to see that Haniyev did not ask to inspect the most lucrative positions in the Inspectorate, Finance and Personnel, and Secretariat. He thought that as a young cadre who had been rising rapidly and a man of courage and action, Haniyev would definitely want to take over the departments with the most power and benefits when he arrived at the Education Commission. He did not expect that he only asked for a few business departments.

Not only Kvit was surprised, but the eight deputy directors were also surprised. They were all mentally prepared that as long as Haniyev did not go too far and just asked, they would give up the departments they were in charge of. However, they did not expect that Haniyev only asked to be in charge of some ordinary business departments.

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that although Haniyev came with a fierce momentum, he was not a greedy guy.

Under Kovit's coordination, the division of labor among the eight deputy directors was slightly adjusted, and then Haniyev was given twelve business departments, most of which were second- or third-rate small ones. The really decent ones were the five departments and second-level institutions of Basic and National Education Department, Textbook Management Department, Soviet Education Press, Advanced Teacher Training Center, and Basic Teacher Training Center. The others were thirteen higher education institutions headed by Kyiv National University, Kyiv University of Science and Technology, and Kyiv Polytechnic University, which had higher standards.

If we exclude the Kyiv universities under Haniyev's charge, his division of labor in the Education Commission is actually very weak. However, Haniyev, who already has an idea of ​​how to carry out the work, is happy to do it and is ready to make a difference in the departments and schools under his charge.

After the team meeting, Haniyev, the ninth deputy director, finally had a clear division of labor and the right to manage his own area of ​​jurisdiction.

After returning to the office, before Haniyev could even get comfortable in the chair, Andrei Avakov, the director of the Department of Basic and National Education, who had received the news, came to report to Haniyev with his three deputy directors.

After chatting with several people for more than 20 minutes, the director and deputy director of the Textbook Management Department also arrived.

On this day, Haniyev was only busy receiving the heads of the departments under his charge. Through chatting with them, he gained a deeper understanding of the business of each department and also got to know the heads of each department.

On the way home from get off work, Haniyev felt that he only needed to wait until the next day or the day after to call a meeting with the heads of various universities to familiarize himself with the job, and then he would be able to truly get into the role.

After getting acquainted with the heads of these departments and universities, Haniyev felt that he could start doing something.

It turns out that Haniyev is a person with very strong adaptability. Although he knew that going to the central department in Moscow was just a gilded job, he still chose to go to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, wanting to achieve some results. In the end, he did achieve two results in just two months.

First, he invested in the gold mine in Burkina Faso, through which he established a close relationship with the Potanin family and also gained long-term benefits for himself.

The second is that it helped Sankara avoid the disaster of a coup that should have killed him and ended his regime, and even consolidated Sankara's power through the great revolution, allowing for a more thorough implementation of socialist transformation and construction in Burkina Faso. This not only helped the cause of socialism, but also really helped the African people, and added a close friend from Africa to the future Ukraine.

However, due to the collapse and change of the Soviet ideology and Gorbachev's promotion of comprehensive Westernization reforms, the Soviets did not consider Haniyev's achievements in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as achievements.

Now, thanks to Sherbitsky's help, Haniyev was promoted to the deputy provincial level in Ukraine and served as deputy director of the State Committee of National Education. Although Sherbitsky meant for Haniyev to stay in the central government of Ukraine, learn more and do less, and wait for the opportunity to be deputy governor of several eastern provinces, Haniyev is not a person who can sit idle.

During his two days at the Education Commission, Haniyev wandered around the offices of various departments and learned about the work of the Education Commission. After meeting Sergei yesterday, he began to think deeply about his work and felt that he must do something in the Education Commission to benefit the Ukrainian people.

Therefore, after careful consideration overnight, Haniyev decided the business he would be in charge of and set preliminary work goals.

As a person who traveled from the Khitan of later times, Haniyev was well aware of the importance of education to a country. The disintegration of the Soviet Union not only had its own problems, but the infiltration of Western ideology into the Soviet Union was also an accelerator, which was bound to penetrate into the field of education to varying degrees.

The great leader of the East once said: If the line is wrong, the more knowledge you have, the more reactionary you will be.

Intellectuals played an important role in the disintegration of the Soviet Union.

Haniyev knew that professors and students in many universities in Moscow and Kiev were pioneers in demanding the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the resignation of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, but the education department was completely unaware and unprepared for this phenomenon, and even condoned it. This showed that the Soviet education department had long been riddled with holes. Either the old people in power did nothing, or those in power also yearned for the West and competed to become traitors to the Soviet Union.

Haniyev asked to be in charge of the university in the hope of infiltrating the enemy, understanding their movements, and using these people when needed.

In addition to the universities in Kiev, Haniyev was also worried that the teachers in Kiev's primary and secondary schools were also against the Soviet Union. They lived with the students day and night, and through the influence of what they saw and heard, they would soon turn hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian students into people who hated the country and the Soviet Union. As for the textbooks used by the students, although Haniyev had never seen them, since Khitan had poisonous textbooks, the Soviet Union probably had them too.

These primary and secondary school teachers and the possible toxic teaching materials will cause endless harm. They will destroy the already unhealthy worldview and values ​​of Ukrainian children and adolescents, turning countless Ukrainian children into people who lack souls, patriotism and national cultural belonging, and even lead to a large number of Western tools and remotely raised running dogs.

Haniyev felt that he could not stop the disintegration of the Soviet Union and Ukraine's independence, but he could not allow the anti-China party, Soviet traitors, traitorous spies to collude with the Americans both at home and abroad to constantly slander, defame and insult the heroes and spiritual core of the Soviet Union.

The emergence of the Soviet Union was a great progress in world civilization. Ukrainians and Russians have sacrificed for the common progress of mankind. Countless Ukrainian martyrs have died generation after generation to defeat fascism and build the motherland. The spirit of these people is a precious asset. They are firmly bound to the history of the Soviet Union. If the Soviet Union is completely denied, then the countless heroes in Ukrainian history will also be denied. They are not only heroes, but also the ancestors of Ukrainians. If the efforts and achievements of these people are denied, Ukrainians will lose their spiritual civilization and cultural foundation.

The greatness of the Soviet Union is unquestionable, and its shortcomings are unconcealable, but it is very difficult for reactionaries to view the Soviet Union dialectically and objectively.

If we allow those who hold a certain degree of discourse power to vent their anger and slander the Soviet Union at will, the young people of Ukraine as a whole will forget the efforts and sacrifices of their ancestors in the next ten to twenty years and will not be able to find their own destiny.

What Haniyev wants to do is to do his best to preserve Ukraine's values ​​that have been passed down for hundreds of years in the "great changes unseen in a century" for the Soviet Union. He does not want this country and nation to fall into self-contradiction. Only if Ukraine remains firm in its thinking, faces history squarely, and does not develop morbid thinking, can it have a better future.

After spending two days getting acquainted with the leaders of the departments, bureaus and centers under his charge, Haniyev began to conduct research at a university in Kyiv every day on February 27. After half a month, Haniyev finally had a clear and comprehensive understanding of all the universities in Kyiv.

Although Haniyev had not yet seen, heard, or grasped the development of the anti-Soviet, anti-supply, and national independence movements in various universities at this time, he knew that these voices had already appeared to varying degrees in recent years.

Haniyev also didn't know how many of the leaders of the departments and schools under his charge were dissatisfied with the Party and the Soviet Union, how many were loyal to the Soviet Union, and how many had become believers in the Western world and its values. He felt that he had to quietly find out the truth. Only by having a thorough understanding of the situation in Kyiv's major universities and education departments could he prescribe the right medicine according to the circumstances and reverse and change the negative phenomena in the education of children and adolescents in Kyiv and even the whole of Ukraine.

Chapter 175: Soviet Poisonous Textbook

Haniyev is not afraid of the disintegration of the Soviet Union or the independence of Ukraine. What he is afraid of is the collapse of Ukrainian values ​​and the next generation of Ukrainians becoming self-unbalanced, forgetting history, and having no roots in their hearts.

According to the original historical development, after Ukraine's independence, in order to get rid of the influence of the Soviet Union and Russia, it completely denied the Soviet Union, which was equivalent to denying two or three generations of ancestors. It also regarded all those who resisted the Tsarist Russia in history as national heroes, regardless of whether these people were gangsters or criminals.

This has a terrible impact on young Ukrainians and will ruin countless generations of Ukrainians.

Precisely because he wants to prevent this phenomenon from happening, Haniyev actively strives for the right to manage relevant departments in order to gain a deeper understanding and seek a breakthrough.

Perhaps because there were a few days less in February, or perhaps because Haniyev's life was too full, time quickly entered March.

March 8th is Women's Day. Women across the country have a day off. At the same time, each work unit will distribute some supplies according to its own situation.

The State Committee of National Education is a central ministry of Ukraine, so it is naturally not short of money. Therefore, all female colleagues in the committee were given 100 rubles and some daily necessities.

The female colleagues happily received the supplies and went home after get off work, while Haniyev called the directors of the Basic and National Education Department and the Textbook Management Department to prepare to go to the National Education Press, a second-level institution of the Education Commission, for research.

The Soviet National Education Press and Publication Agency is a second-level agency under the State Committee of National Education. Its business is to publish, print and distribute newspapers and periodicals on education. The Ukrainian National Education Press and Publication Agency is in charge of the Republic of Ukraine.

Almost all schools across the country subscribe to the newspapers and periodicals of the National Education Press, so the benefits are quite good. Teachers in the national education system also have to publish their papers in these periodicals when they are evaluating their professional titles. It can be said that the National Education Press is a department that controls the future of most teachers.

Moreover, the printing and publishing of textbooks across the country are all done in the printing factory under the National Education Press. This department is a unit that Haniyev attaches great importance to. After investigating the university, Haniyev chose this as the first stop.

The Department of Basic and Ethnic Education is responsible for the city's national basic education and education for ethnic minorities, while the Department of Textbook Management is responsible for the country's textbooks. These two departments also need to cooperate with the National Education Press in terms of functions. Naturally, Haniyev had to call them along when he came to investigate, but the director of the Department of Textbook Management was the eighth deputy director concurrently, so the accompanying personnel could only be accompanied by the first deputy director who was in charge of the work.

The National Education Press is located in the Podysky District in the northwest of Kyiv. As the ninth deputy director, Haniyev was given a black Volga bus by the Secretariat in his second week of work. He usually drives this bus to and from work. Originally, the Secretariat wanted to assign Haniyev another driver, but he refused.

The Department of Basic and National Education and the Department of Textbook Management also had several buses. Logically, two buses would have been enough for the two departments and Haniyev, who had a total of seven or eight people. However, after Haniyev got on the first bus, the directors and the first deputy director of the two departments got on the next two buses respectively. Then the other deputy directors and staff of the two departments got into the other two buses. A total of eight people took up five buses, and there were also five drivers from the Secretary's Office.

Haniyev sighed inwardly after watching from the rearview mirror: This behavior of deliberately wasting resources for the sake of comfort and pomp reflects the Soviet officials' sense of privilege. If you are a capitalist regime that adheres to the law of the jungle and that those with power want high positions, generous salaries and high treatment, that would be fine, but we are a socialist country. From the beginning of the establishment of the regime, we have always said that everyone is equal and serves the people. But now the people's servants enjoy high enjoyment, while the people who are served have to eat moldy bread. How can the people not hate it?

After criticizing the bureaucratic behavior of the leading cadres of the Education Commission in his mind for a long time, Haniyev fell asleep in the car in a daze.

"Deputy Director Haniyev, Your Excellency, Deputy Director, has arrived."

The driver's gentle call woke Haniyev. He rubbed his face, sat up, and asked, "Where are we?"

"To the National Education Press."

Haniyev glanced down at the navigator's watch on his wrist and whispered, "I've been asleep for almost half an hour."

The president and vice president of the National Education Press and others had already known that Haniyev was coming to inspect, and had been waiting in front of the door. The accompanying personnel got out of the car early.

Seeing that Haniyev was still not coming down, Andrei Avakov, Director of the Department of Basic and National Education, stepped forward and opened the car door for Haniyev. He smiled and said, "Deputy Director Haniyev, we are here from the National Education Press."

Haniyev thanked the people and got off the car without explaining that he had fallen asleep and was not being pretentious. He glanced at the dozen or so people who came to greet him and recognized the president, Nevsky.

After extending his hand and shaking hands with the leaders of the newspaper office one by one, Haniyev asked, "I'm here today mainly to see the recent business performance of our newspaper office and the printing and distribution of newspapers, periodicals, and textbooks. Is this convenient for you?"

When the leader asks whether it is convenient or not, the subordinates can only say it is convenient regardless of the actual situation.