Ligachev did not come forward in the end under the persuasion of his secretary, and he directly told his subordinates to take the case first, and talk about the rest later.
What Ligachev really meant was to put this matter on hold for the first time, and wait until he had a chance to discuss it with Gorbachev.
Yeltsin and Sobchak, who were at the gates of the court, became the heroes of the Muscovites, and the people cheered their names with Goldman.
Yeltsin, a heartfelt supporter, felt that he had done a great deed, and the depression in his heart for most of the past six months had been swept away, and he had already made a move, and it was up to Ligachev to continue.
In a few days there will be a plenum of the Central Committee of the CPSU in 1987, and Yeltsin will not give Ligachev any face at all at this time.
And although Seryosha is not a member of the Central Committee, this time he will attend this meeting as a national representative of the CPSU, he can see it, but he does not have the right to speak at the congress, and only when the group discussion is held, Seryosha will have the opportunity to speak.
Seryosha didn't have much to expect from this meeting, he was still worried about Chulbanov's arrest, Chulbanov knew a lot of things about Seryosha, and Seryosha had to get in touch with Chulbanov as soon as possible.
At Seryosha's suggestion, Komsomolskaya Pravda compared the Chulbanov case with Yeltsin's lawsuits, making a comparative report.
Emphasis was placed on the legality of Ligachev's misappropriation of funds from the workers' new city for other purposes.
Because the impact of the Yeltsin case was so great, almost all the media, except for the Central Party newspaper Avista, focused on the trial of the Yeltsin case during this period.
And ignoring the upcoming plenum of the Central Committee of the CPSU.
Yeltsin is now locked behind closed doors, preoccupied with his speech at the plenum of the Central Committee of the CPSU, at which he will once again question Ligachev on the legal basis of misappropriating funds for the construction of the workers' new city.
So in the midst of the uproar of the media, the plenum of the Central Committee of the CPSU, which attracted much attention, was held.
During this time, firstly, in order to avoid suspicion, and secondly, he was busy with Chulbanov's case, so Seryosha and Yeltsin did not communicate in depth.
When he walked into the meeting, he did not know that Yeltsin was actually planning to attack Ligachev and Gorbachev at this meeting.
Yeltsin, as an alternate member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, sat high on the rostrum, and all members stood up and sang the Internationale as the loud international anthem sounded.
In the background of the rostrum is a huge portrait of Lenin.
When these ceremonial ceremonies were over, the moderator of the congress began to speak, after which General Secretary Gorbachev stepped to the front to summarize the work of the past year.
The order of speeches at the meeting was based on the ranking within the Politburo, followed by Ryzhkov, the top leader of the government, followed by Ligachev.
In his speech, Ligachev affirmed the achievements of the country in the economic sphere over the past year, focusing on the Volkswagen joint venture project introduced by Seryosha, which was nothing new, and Seryosha listened drowsily, thinking about how to deal with Chulbanov's affairs.
Just after one big man after another spoke, it was finally Yeltsin's turn to take the stage to speak, and his first words shocked the audience.
"I don't agree with Secretary Gorbachev and Secretary Ligachev, they should go to the streets of Moscow, go to our stores, and see what our economy is really like.
I'll just give you a small example, my family buys everyday necessities in a different place than everyone here, I never go to the special shops for high-ranking cadres, my wife, like most citizens of Moscow, go to the most ordinary state stores every day to buy daily necessities.
I worked late every day, often coming home at nine o'clock, but I always found that when I came home, I always arrived just in time for dinner, at first I thought that my wife was deliberately waiting for me to come back for dinner, until I asked once, it turned out that it took him a full four hours from the end of work to the front of the food store to get the ingredients for our dinner" "Secretary Gorbachev, do you really know about these situations, and I want to tell you that the waiting time is two hours before proceeding with the economic reform program that you have personally drawn up.
I want to know what we have done this year, is our economy not getting better, but getting worse, wake up comrades, you are deceiving yourselves" "Not long ago, I filed an indictment with the Moscow District Court for the illegal misappropriation of funds by the State Economic Council for the Moscow Workers' City project, and until now there has been no official answer from the Central Secretariat, so I would like to ask here today where our money is being spent."
Yeltsin's speeches went too far, and Ligachev and Gorbachev, who were on the rostrum, were speechless when asked.
Yeltsin's former colleague Ryzhkov was frightened, he felt that he had some personal relationship with Yeltsin, so he stood up, walked to the podium and turned off the microphone, and then whispered to Yeltsin: "Enough Comrade Yeltsin, there are foreign ambassadors in the audience, can you save us some face?"
Yeltsin's speech just now was a bit impulsive, but many of the things he said were indeed true, and some comrades from the grassroots level in the audience had a deep understanding of the phenomena mentioned by Yeltsin.
With a few sparse applause, some brave grassroots party members expressed their respect for Yeltsin, and then more applause rang out, and some impulsive young delegates even stood up and gave Yeltsin a standing ovation.
Seryosha did not expect Yeltsin to do this, he always thought that Yeltsin was a mature politician and would not act so impulsively.
All along, Seryosha has been using Yeltsin to constantly set up obstacles for Ligachev to prevent Ligachev from attacking his Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation.
This time Yeltsin did something that no one had ever done in the decades-long history of the CPSU.
Yeltsin may have taken into account that there were also representatives from Eastern European countries attending the meeting, so Yeltsin stepped down despite Ryzhkov's repeated persuasion.
When he stepped off the podium, he let out a long sigh and walked out of the room.
Almost all the delegates along the way looked at him, some stood up to greet him, others glared at him coldly.
When he passed by Seryosha, Seryosha also stood up and grabbed Yeltsin and said to him: "Why be so impulsive?"
"You don't understand, some things have to be done" Yeltsin shook hands with Seryosha and walked away without looking back. t1706231537: