Foreign agents in Krasnostalinsk

  In the city of Krasnostalinsk (Red Stalinsk) there lived a number of people who were dissatisfied with the policies of the general ruler and criticized him. They listened to foreign Radio "Liberty" and watched foreign films with Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger. And they criticized the palaces and yachts of the friends and relatives of the general ruler.In their newspapers they asked the general ruler: “Where did you get the money? You, they say, sawed up and sold the city's factories to the capitalists. You promised and did not pay the workers wages. You sold the bins of your homeland to the eastern padishahs - that’s where you got the money from! Now the children of the padishahs drive armored cars along our avenues and nothing happens to them for it. And we can’t even ride scooters along our avenues at night. They say you are violating equality.”
  The general ruler did not like such newspapers, and he decided to give the intellectuals the title of foreign agents. Because they were influenced by the Collective West. Because only enemies can dislike it when children of padishahs rush through the streets in armored personnel carriers. It’s only the enemies who don’t like to breathe in the exhaust fumes from their bosses’ comfortable cars. It is the enemies who disgrace the bosses with publicity and do not allow them to get rich and sell former factories. They are against freedom. They do not allow the population to be deceived freely.
  Foreign agents now had to wear a foreign agent's cap and a special patch on their clothes so that people and law enforcement agencies could immediately see that in front of them was a person who criticized the general ruler and his friends.
  But some foreign agents broke the law and did not buy themselves a foreign agent’s cap or put a patch on their clothes with the sign of a foreign agent. They gathered under the guise of playing dominoes in underground apartments and read the banned writers Gianni Rodari, Gaidar, Tolstoy, Gorky, Turgenev and Schweik, read the banned magazines "Murzilka" and the newspaper "Pionerskaya Pravda". And also the Gulag Archipelago and Dostoevsky, although it was simply undesirable. And they also looked at the forbidden artists Shishkin and Levitan.
   But the general ruler turned a blind eye to all this. His hobbies shifted to flying in supersonic airships and swimming in aquadiscotheques. He also liked Solzhenitsyn, Levitan and Gorky together, but he hid it. He was shy and modest.
   The security forces were proud that they were exceeding the plan for fines. For this, the government gave them awards and apartments in new houses.
   But there were other journalists, not foreign agents, who wrote the truth that the general overlord liked. About how the general overlord raised the country from someone’s knees and how people suffer in the decaying collective West and how good it became for everyone when we stopped building communism and turned it back into feudalism and how good it is to be a slave to the feudal lords and generally sit in prison - there is food and a roof over your head and confidence in the future - that tomorrow will be the same as yesterday and today. And how we will soon conquer everyone and take revenge on everyone for their successes and for the fact that they do not want to recognize our greatness.
   And that the great national ruler is eternal and immortal, like Kashchei and Baba Yaga, and this makes everyone feel good, except for the democrats from the Decaying West, but we will soon take revenge on them all for this and steal from them again all the technologies and computer programs together with intellectual property and the right to buy anything and buy off anything. And no one knows whether the general overlord is still alive, because they think that instead of him, the state is ruled by a hologram, photoshop and artificial intelligence. And the enemies of the ruler in the person of the people are denied entry into the server cells. Because the elite caste are traders of the earth's subsoil and programmers.