today's ones.
l can't be sick these days.
l can't die!
Yourfather needs only
ten years, as for a communist.
There's nobody around me.
They are not people.
They are scums.
They are loafers, bureaucrats.
And what about Nikolay Podgorny?
He seems to be loyal to you.
Who is loyal? Podgorny?
He must hide somewhere,
so l wouldn't see him anymore!
And Shelepin? He's 40, l think.
Shelepin is well-educated.
l offered him to be
a secretary ofthe Leningrad committee.
But he took offence.
He considered that as a demotion.
He was in the centre,
and he wanted to staythere,
l might get sick
and he will replace me.
-And what about Leonid llyich?
-About who?
Nice fellow.
Do you know howwe used
to call him?
A ballet dancer.
He turns where the life turns him.
They all think he's Punch.
But he sticks to me,
and l need that.
That's exactlywhat l need.
He's gonna rule the personnel.
That's when he can revenge!
l will rule them through him.
To rule the personnel,
not the country.
They solve everything,
whoeveryou are.
That, a moustached one,
knew everything.
losifVessarionovich knewthat.
He could rule people skilfully.
And as for me...
During the war,
l find out about the situation,
l report to comrade Stalin
that Germans are gonna be on the 16th.
Time passes, the situation changes.
He calls for me,
l'm coming, reporting.
Then he tells me ''About turn!''
l turned around and found myself
faced to the wall.
20 minutes passed.
An hour passed.
l'm a human, l'm a state person.
And then he says again:
''About turn!''
l turn around and he says:
''Come to the window.
Where are your Germans?''
Can you call him a human?
No, son, l can't die now.
l need ten years.
But l can stand it.
Last night Colonel Glushko
shot himself.
What was the reason?
Do you know?
No.
Maybe it has something to do
with yourworking?
Like what? Don't think so.
Okay. We'll figure that out.
And you put in order
all the papers about this case,
and turn them in to me.
And go to the vacation.
lt's not easyto find
an appropriate man on his position.
Did you hear an agricultural joke?
Let's keep thejokes for a while.
Let's discuss our business first.
Did you decide to do it?
Not yet.
How long are you gonna think?
You don't know Nikita!
He only looks simple.
He wrung many necks.
Molotov, Beriya,
Koganovich, Zhukov.
You can be left with nothing,
you knowthat?
We all can be left with nothing.
Yes. Two of us. To Moscow.
Stop chicken out, Leonid.
Nikolay asked all North
committees secretaries.
They all are against Khrushchev.
l take Ukraine upon myself.
You can charm Georgia,
Uzbekistan.
They're your people.
The plenum will be ours.
Look at us, we can do it!
You're all with me,
but till the first militiaman comes.
What red hair!
- How is it going, the red-haired?
- Everything's fine, Leonid llyich.
l had a red-haired once
in my motherland.
She was a dashing girl.
She used to write poetry, bythe way.
And do you write poetry, red-haired?
Oryou onlywrite reports?
l write reports in verse.
Bon appetite!
- Nikolay Grigoryevich.
-Yes?
- The telephone call foryou.
- Later.
Yes.
ls he yours?
That fellow? Yes, he's mine.
He's approved.
We've been three years together.
Look,..
check Vorobyov
in the South ofthe Krasnodar Territory.
He's not the one.
Zarabyan needs to be checked too.
And the others too.
This is how
a very important person must talk.
Don't devour my everyword.
Leonid llyich, now it's time
for a new agricultural joke.
Please.
Thejoke is:
A Chukchi man comes back home
from his hunting.
He comes into his house and sees
his naked wife and a naked geologist
on the bearskin.
And the Chukchi man asks:
''Dear comrade geologist,
what are you doing with mywife?''
And the geologists answers:
''Don't you see?
l fulfil the Nikita Sergeevich decree.
l apply corn in the North.''
Excuse me, father.
- Do you remember?
-About what?
You promised me to