Аннотация: The Dialogue on political practicalness
The Dialogue on political practicalness
- When I left library today, the biography of Ho Chi Minh, the legendary leader of Vietnam, has caught sight to me, - the Readeress has reported.
- It's nice! - the Reader reacted without special attention.
- Of course, I could not to read it completely. I looked through pages of minutes five, - the Readeress continued.
- And what? - the Reader demonstrated the courtesy, with thinking about something.
- A certain idealization of the heroes and circumstances in which these heroes acted is peculiar to authors of biographies. But nevertheless I have paid attention to quite frequent citing verses. There was an opinion, maybe, superficial that the Vietnamese are a poetic people.
'Когда закончится победою война,
Мы тост поднимем и отведаем вина.
Пускай в семье родной сегодня многих нет,
Зато все вместе встретят новый, мирный тэт!
"When war will end with a victory,
We will toast and taste the wine.
Let in the native family a many of relatives today aren't present,
But all together we will meet a new, peaceful Tet!
The address of the President to the people with a New Year's quatrain became national tradition from that day."
The President's address to the people with the new year's quatrain became the national tradition! Eugene Kobelev writes this in the biography of Ho Chi Minh [the biography published in Russian, 1979, 1983]. I was impressed by this tradition.
The Reader looked at the Readeress with interest. The Readeress was continuing own reflections:
- When we talked about books about China, the theme of poetry, it seems, did not arise - as a topic of our conversation. Although ... Chinese poetry is classical poetry ... it's common knowledge.
- The Chinese politicians are practical politicians. But we don't have to oppose a poetry to a practicalness! - the Reader spoke.
- Ho Chi Minh was a practical politician, - the Readeress has agreed. - He paid to diplomacy, negotiations, achievement of compromises much attention. However, the international situation in 1945-46 was extremely adverse for the Democratic Republic of Vietnam. According to the Potsdam agreement the USA and England had to carry out disarmament of the Japanese troops. In Vietnam there were foreign troops on the legal basis. The foreign policy positions of China and of Vietnam were qualitatively different.
- The Ho Chi Minh's reputation as the adherent of communism, his reputation of the communist not promoted to the negotiations between him and the western powers? - the Reader have asked the rhetorical question.
- With whom did the Chinese communists, China under their leadership have armed conflicts? - the Readeress answered a question with a question.
- We can't be considered as especially big experts at such formulation of the question. The conflicts happen different level. Some frontier guard will shoot near border - too it is possible to call it with a certain share of convention the conflict.
- If we talk about the most famous events of this kind, the Vietnamese Communists, Vietnam under their leadership participated in armed conflicts with France (1946 - 1954) and with the United States (1959-1964-1973). Anyway, Vietnam has earned respect all over the world.
- Somehow, the significant conflicts of China after 1911 neither with France, nor with the USA, nor with other western power (European or American) aren't remembered to me.
- Someone will tell that China at the same time played on two (at least) boards. The Chinese communists a long time were "close" to the USSR, and Chiang Kai-shek - to the West.
- Yes, seemingly, there were no significant armed conflicts after 1911 of China with the western powers. But time has come ... The armed conflicts on the Damansky Island (Zhenbao Island) (1969) and in the relations with Vietnam (1979) - are the well-known historic facts.
- Vietnam was in the situation of armed conflicts with France (1946 - 1954) and with the USA (1959-1964-1973). China had the conflict of not a large scale with the USSR (1969) and the noticeable confrontation- with Vietnam (1979).
- Generally, I not absolutely understand logic of our dialogue ... Vietnamese are poetical, but the Chinese poetry - classical. Both Ho Chi Minh, and the Chinese politicians differed in practicality ... Well-known historic facts ...
- Reflections aloud. A spontaneous movement of a thought. "The Plato's dialogues".
- And Russia is poetical?
- "... And something terrible is in this rapid flitting by, where the vanishing subject doesn't manage to become a distinctly visible, - only the sky over one's head and light clouds and the moon fighting with them seem are motionless. Ah! troika, bird of a troika! who has invented you?"
- From the whole poem - several lines? All right ... And Russia is practical?
- "Do you remember how we with you lived in misery, had dinner to foreign's account, and how once a pastry-cook has seized me by a coat collar concerning the eaten down tarts to the account of income of the King of England? Now absolutely other a state of things. They lend for me as much money as it needed - No Limits. They are an awful originals. You would have died of laughter."
- From the whole comedy in five actions - a several lines only? All right ... We pass to the theme "Gogol's Creativity"?
- Yes!
July 19, 2018 23:15
Translation from Russian into English: July 21, 2018 04:48.
Владимир Владимирович Залесский 'Диалог о политической практичности'.