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Оглавление– Permission to ask, Sir?
– What have you got, Hans?
– Have you ever been to other planets?
– Of course, Hans!
– In our System?
– What do you mean in our System? There is only one System, and there will never be another one! Have you forgotten the Anthem?
– No, sir, but there are planets so far away, to which the light travels millions of years…
– All planets and all stars in the System belong to the System! There is only one, and there will be no other one!
– But there may be some dissenting, I mean, underdeveloped planets, sir, who do not know about the System…
– Everyone and everything belong to the System and everything is the System, whether they know or don’t know, whether they want or don’t want! Who cares what they know or want? Damn whims! Today they do want, tomorrow they do not want, the day after tomorrow they will have a new bawler leader and they will start pumping rights!
– But it may happen, sir!
– Certainly, it may, Hans!
– They may be plotting something, sir, some mean conspiracy against the System…
– To surpass the System in deviousness, Hans? Are you out of your mind?
– And what about the Russians, sir?
– What Russians?
– Are they also part of the System?
– Of course, Hans! It’s Russian part.
– But their trickery is incomparable, sir!
– Exactly, Hans, it’s unrivaled through and through! With nothing!
– But if they are so shrewd, sir, they might be craftier than the System?
– As part of the System, they cannot transcend the System, Hans. What nonsense do they teach you in academies! Refresh the Hymn in your memory, there are answers to all questions in it, and report back in 20 minutes!
– Yes, sir!
