"The fact is that we have lost absolute control over public opinion. Stymov's helpless words fell on Abisevic's ears, and the political giant's eyes were re-examined at the newspaper in hand.

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the republics were in fact faced with a change in political system. The shift from the CPSU system to the Western electoral system means that the regimes must reposition their public opinion power.

In the past, in Soviet times, the tool of public opinion was a mouthpiece, a drummer, and a clarion call for mobilization. For the Soviet political system, no major decision-making, or no important change in the political situation, could be initiated purely from the media of public opinion.

Even for Abisevic, he never thought about how lethal public opinion could become.

In fact, such an article that simply advocates the reconstruction of the railway line in southern Kazakhstan is nothing more than an outline of a campaign.

Immediately afterwards, a tide of public opinion quickly blew in Almaty. At the end of October, under the influence of the autumn monsoon, a terrible sandstorm struck Tobe, a small city south of the Moynkum Desert.

Such natural disasters are not uncommon for Kazakhstan, and in the Soviet era, the government's strong executive power was able to better protect the people in the disaster area and restore the production and life of the population in the disaster area.

However, for Kazakhstan, which has just regained independence, things are not so simple. But of course, it is not only tens of thousands of citizens in Tobena who are sad in Kazakhstan today, but tens of millions of Kazakhs are struggling to make ends meet.

However, to the astonishment of the nascent Kazakh regime, a small disaster caused an uproar in society.

The Almaty Daily reporter was the first to rush to the disaster area, followed by a helicopter equipped with various live broadcast equipment and satellite communication tools.

The situation in the disaster area has been sent out in a steady stream. Lacking water and food, thousands of wailing and screaming patients have turned community hospitals into veritable hell.

Shepherd boys who have lost their parents, camels, cattle and sheep that have died in the desert, and homeless residents whose homes have been destroyed by storms.

It was when the Almaty Daily published a photo with a full-page headline on the front page.

A shepherd boy half-buried in the desert, with a vulture standing next to him waiting for his death. Then came the inside story of a suicide attempt by a front-line photojournalist due to a huge sense of guilt.

News about Tobe fills almost all Almaty media, newspapers, magazines, radio and television stations, as well as gossip by word of mouth.

The Almaty Daily became the conscience and hero of Almaty, as for the villain...... Do you still need to ask?

Under the tremendous pressure of public opinion, the Kazakh government had to come up with the only reserves of resources to support the disaster areas in Tobe.

A strategically placed army on duty was mobilized, and the advance detachment arrived in Tobe by helicopter transporting supplies.

The army then assembled in Karaganda, a transportation hub in central Kazakhstan, and took a two-day train to the city of Khantau at the confluence of the Atyrau Desert and the Moynkum Desert in the south, at the pass of the Gertau and Aitau mountains, and then collected various vehicles to form a convoy and set off for Tobe.

It should be said that the Kazakh government has done everything in its power to make the most correct decisions possible.

Even if any leadership team is changed, it is impossible to make better planning arrangements under such conditions.

However, this disaster relief operation can only be said to have been labeled as a tragedy from the beginning. The relief teams that arrived in helicopters were looted during the distribution process.

The soldiers who wanted to maintain order were portrayed by the cameras' cameras as ferocious jackals, tigers and leopards.

Knocked to the ground, of course

"The people's cry". The scene of the mess has become the best torture tool for the torture authorities to rescue the disaster. The follow-up operation of the large army is not unpleasant, and it only took two days from the maneuver to Karagan to the loading of relief materials and the arrival of Hantao, which is definitely the mobility efficiency of the elite troops.

But in the past two days, they still can't outpace the efficiency of the reporters in causing the tragedy. What's more, arriving from Kantau to Tobe, but it is necessary to cross the southeast of the Moyinkum Desert, which has just been ravaged by sandstorms, and there are only a handful of difficult marches of this level in the history of the world's marches.

From the perspective of military operations alone, Kazakhstan's rapid deployment force is worthy of the name of elite.

It's a pity that the enemy they face is more powerful than they can imagine. The power of the lead and the camera was far more powerful in this war than the machine guns, cannons, and rockets.

As more and more media rush to Tobe, every tree and grass swallowed by the desert is a tragedy, let alone a little girl with no eyes and a ragdoll bear standing on the deserted street.

One heart-wrenching, sader, and heartbreaking story after another is played out in this city.

There is a mother who holds a puddle of water in her hand, but collapses at the door because of the lack of water, and her youngest son stands behind the mottled glass of the house, looking out into the street.

There is an Volga car that breaks down in the middle of the desert, and the whole family hugs each other to spend the desert night in the car, and when they find it, it has turned into a set of ice sculptures...... In the portrayal of the media, the city is probably only one beach and a little boy away from moving the world.

The pressure of public opinion faced by the Kazakh government can be imagined. When the convoy finally arrived in Tobe after four days, a skylight was opened in the Almaty Daily.

There are only two small sentences on the huge front page - not every day there are headlines, but every day you can read Kazakhstan here.

It is conceivable that Abisevic's face must have been green when he saw this issue of the newspaper. And then on the second page, the Almaty Daily published another article.

As the army enters Tobe to provide relief, many may have thought that this media feast has come to an end.

However, the Almaty Daily officially declared with such an article that the feast has only just begun!

"Every city in Kazakhstan has the potential to become Tobe". From Almaty to Tobe, take the southern route of the Atyrau Desert and the Moyinkum Desert, and the actual whole journey takes only 400 kilometers.

If Almaty had a direct railway to Taraz, a key town in the southern part of the Moynkum Desert, the relief forces would not have had to take a detour to the northwestern hills of Kazakhstan and then take a train south to Kampau, where they would have taken a bus to Tobe.

After going around such a circle, the entire disaster relief force has traveled more than 2,000 kilometers, and has even gone through three loading and unloading of materials.

The author of the article thus asks the question: Is this disaster a natural disaster or a man-made disaster?

If we had a southern railway that runs east-west through Kazakhstan, how much of the tragedy of Tobey could have been avoided?

At the end of the article, the author let out a deafening roar with all his might.

"Please speed up the railways of Kazakhstan and keep up with the disappearance of its people!" said Stepov, who publicly announced his resignation as head of the Cabinet of Communications on the first Monday after the article was published.

It can only be said that this public opinion system left over by the CPSU, due to its unique monopoly ecology, has long forgotten how they used propaganda and public opinion to knock the Tsar and Mensheviks to the ground and step on 10,000 feet from Vladimir to Uncle Iron Man.

As the time enters the winter of 1992, Kazakhstan, as a country with a nomadic economy, will inevitably have sudden situations of one kind or another.

And every thing that can attract people's attention can finally be extended to the reconstruction of the southern railway from a strange angle by the Almaty Daily.

At the same time, thanks to a series of reports on hot social news, the Almaty Daily has also established itself in the world of public opinion.

Kazakhstan's conscience, its citizens' role model, freedom of public opinion, public representatives, independent thinking, and a hat on the head of the Almaty Daily, which became a protective halo that made Abishevich helpless.

It was not that he did not think of making the newspaper bow down by forceful means, but then the public opinion circles quickly hugged each other.

A journalist who bites a dog is caught in a detention center, and as a result, almost all Almaty newspapers begin to report negative news about the POLI.

Under the guidance of public opinion, there are even signs of instability among the people of Almaty after the onset of winter.

With the collapse of the Soviet Union for a year, the rapid recession of the economy in Kazakhstan has actually made all the people at the bottom need [31] an outlet for catharsis.

It doesn't matter if it's stirring up waves, fanning the flames, or adding fuel to the fire. On the already unquiet lake, a group of media such as the Almaty Daily brought fire and strong winds, and the captain of the ship on the lake can imagine what kind of mood he is.

And the key node of this storm is coming. An article by Kunanbayev, deputy chief engineer of the Almaty Railway Design Institute, was published in the Almaty Daily.

From the point of view of a conspiracy theory, he analyzes the planning of railways in Kazakhstan during the Soviet period.

Then the inability of the Southern Railway to be completed was summed up as a conspiracy of the Soviet Union to take control of Kazakhstan.

At the end of the article, whether Kazakhstan can build a southern railway has become a sign of whether it can truly achieve independence.

Such suspicions were too fatal for Abishevich, the first secretary of the former Soviet Communist Party of Kazakhstan.