This story was told to me by her immediate witness, the incomparable Alexander Shirvindt. Somewhere in the late 1960s, a large Krasnoyarsk mine was awarded the Order of Lenin and some Transitional Flag. Miners are rich people – they wrote out an acting brigade from Moscow on this occasion. They sent a special plane to the capital, so that the artists could be taken right to the beginning, so that everything could be delivered without delay - a concert, a banquet on a full coil, then artists for one hundred rubles each (the ragged grandmothers were!) A special trip home!
However, the weather failed, the plane still delayed a little, and the direct order was broken: after the delivery immediately sat down at the tables. They were already walking around, and there was a scream: "The artists were brought! Come to the concert!” And the miners who are not in the guests, the owners themselves: what they did not drink, we will get after the concert! They fell straight from the tables into the hall. Five minutes of battle!
The concert was conducted by Oleg Milyavsky. “Come to us in Moscow,” he confidently burst into the microphone, “you will see the beautiful arbat streets and fountains of the VDNH, the famous University on the Lenin Mountains...” Suddenly in the middle of the hall stands a man who has clearly overtaken and says, “Hey! “Tell me about abortion!” “Ha ha ha! “Take the room, you give it!”
Milyavsky waited for the Gogot and continued: “...Famous University on the Lenin Mountains, you will walk through the Garden Ring...” All the same man from the hall spoke: “On abortion! “Tell me about abortion!” The hall just rolls out of the hood. Milyavsky: “...You will walk through the Garden Ring, you will walk through the beautiful Moscow Boulevards.” The man: “What do you know about abortion?” Milyavsky: “Dear friends, a comrade asks you to talk about abortion... Of course, I know about abortion. And you know about abortion, and everyone knows about abortion... It is a pity that only one person did not know about abortion...” And Milyavsky, knocking his finger in the direction of the screamer, severely concluded: “His mother!”
The room is not to wrap, but to wrap! The man, who at one point lost the success of the public and even insulted in his best feelings, shouted: "I will kill!" He was on the stage to beat Milyavsky. Well, here, of course, he was caught, dragged to the exit...
Milyavsky, pointing out the following, said: "Dear friends, if anyone else is interested: this is called "abortion!" The concert, they say, was an incredible success.