grin reached both of their ears when they left Sepentai’s office!” The assembly was noisy like a disturbed chicken coop. It is not known how this scandal, which crossed every boundary, would have ended if the chairman of the collective farm had not taken the reins of the government into his own hands. “Stop making noise!” He got angry. “What are you talking about: ‘You’re a Shurshit, he’s Shurshit?’ Well, let them be, is it really hurting anyone? These days, every Soviet person is free to change to any nationality they want, when they feel like it.” He paused and waited, checking the effect of his words on the people, and when the noise subsided, he spoke calmly. In a pleading tone, he told the people about what was planned to improve the life of the villagers, then, after discussing the village, he switched to the domestic and foreign policy of the state, drawing general attention to the problem of national relations, finally, making sure that the people were slowly forgetting about the cause of the unrest and calming down, said to the newcomers: “I welcome you to your new home! May you live happily!” And then cut the prepared red ribbon with scissors. Looking back at the ribbon in his hands, the huddled crowd poured into both seven-story buildings. And only then did the chairman of the collective farm, wiping his sweaty forehead, head towards his car. But before this, he understood, that he gave the people a reason to swear at their head of department, Barakatov, from the bottom of their hearts. In the morning after breakfast, Pashat, the chairman of the collective farm, and Sepentai sat down to write a report to the district committee of the party: “A Report to the District Committee of the CPSU, The workers of the ‘Socialism’ department, branch of the ‘Communist’ collective farm, belonging to the Zhetisai region, are supporting the policy of the party and government to eliminate the differences between town and countryside in every way possible, they undertook an honourable obligation to build two seven-story buildings. According to the plan, it was envisaged that all construction work would be completed in full within a year. As a result of the heroic work of the residents of the branch and the involved workers, two sixty-four apartment buildings, that is, one hundred and twenty-eight apartments, were put into operation seven