Siheyuan starts from a better life

Chapter 1003, Moscow 2
The Ukraine Hotel is still some distance away from the airport. Along the way, Jiang Yan carefully observed the current situation in Moscow through the car window. He could see that Moscow is a bit depressed now.

But this is not surprising. In fact, after their new leader came to power in 1985, he implemented comprehensive reforms in the political and economic fields, changing public ownership to private ownership and distributing the equity of large state-owned enterprises to the people. Each person could get a stock certificate worth US$25, but the people used it to exchange for alcohol.

At that time, the Russians mainly exported resources such as oil in exchange for money, and imported food from abroad to meet their daily needs.

That is to say, the Russian economy has experienced a recession this year, falling 2.6 percentage points from the previous year. Society is in extreme chaos, prices are soaring, and there are more people queuing up to assassinate the president than those queuing up to buy bread.

Just now, Jiang Yan passed by a bread workshop and saw a long line of people.

But all this has nothing to do with Jiang Yan. Jiang Yan even thinks that a fallen Russian bear is not a bad thing for his country, but a good thing.

As for the fact that the Eagle Sauce and Western society regard our country as an opponent in the future, Jiang Yan just smiled slightly. Our country has a civilization of 5,000 years, and they can bring us down. This is simply a joke.

Although the phoenix in nirvana has a period of weakness, once it gets through it, it will sing in the sky.

Although the Ukraine Hotel is named after Ukraine, it is not located in Ukraine. Instead, it is located on the banks of the Moscow River, across the river from the government building.

Now it is the welcoming guesthouse of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Bear. Of course, if a senior leader comes, he has other places, which were not open to the public before, but have been open to the public since the 80s, and private bookings are allowed.

In later generations, this hotel was also a high-end hotel in Moscow, and it was a four-star hotel at that time.

The Moscow Hotel is a typical Stalinist building. The decoration inside the hotel was also the most luxurious style at that time. The highest point of the hotel is about 200 meters high, overlooking the entire Moscow scenery.

There are seven more buildings like this in Moscow. They are also nicknamed the Seven Sisters of Moscow, a series of Stalinist architecture buildings located in Moscow, which were built during the last decade of Stalin's rule.

The architectural style of this period, like other art forms, showed strong ideological characteristics - praising the ideal social order of communism: tall, majestic, spectacular, and symmetrical in layout, and had a profound impact on the architectural styles of Eastern European countries and other socialist countries in the world.

They have perfectly symmetrical structures, stepped podiums, exterior walls inlaid with high-grade stone, and towering red stars on the tops of their towers, reminiscent of medieval Gothic churches in Western Europe and the magnificent Baroque palaces of 19th-century Tsarist Russia, as well as the shadows of the ancestors of modern skyscrapers such as the Woolworth Building and the Empire State Building in New York. Stalinist architecture combines all of the above to form a unique new socialist style.

1947年9月7日，为向莫斯科建城800周年献礼，8处建筑工地同时举行奠基仪式，但最终只有“七姐妹”完工，包括2座酒店、2座政府办公大楼、2座公寓和1座大学主楼。

The Ukraine Hotel is one of the hotels, and the other hotel is the Leningrad Hotel. This hotel stands on the Komsomol Square, close to the Leningrad Railway Station, and can be regarded as a genuine Russian-style building.

There is a saying in later generations that if you haven’t seen the “Seven Sisters” in Moscow, it means you haven’t been to Moscow.

The train carrying the goods would take about ten days to arrive, so Jiang Yan and his companions strolled around Moscow.

Of course, when they went out, there were people sent by the government to follow them throughout the journey. Even so, Jiang Yan and his team could see many different scenes. Perhaps it was because the hero was old, although the Mao Bear had not disintegrated, the internal situation was indeed not good.

The situation in Moscow was worse than they had imagined. It was winter and everything was bleak. The shops were empty and many people spent the whole day doing nothing on the streets. There were no jobs, no food, no daily necessities, nothing. Anyone who saw it would feel that this was a country on the verge of collapse.

Jiang Yan even saw that in some inconspicuous corners, some women took out some leather coats, refrigerators, freezers, televisions and other clothes and household appliances from their homes to set up stalls to sell.

However, we can also see many flower-growing family traders. They are hurriedly and carefully selling some food and daily necessities. It has to be said that the people of our flower-growing family are quite courageous. The road of trade has begun, but now is not the craziest period.

However, the current environment in Moscow is not good. Jiang Yan saw that these traders, while making a lot of profits, had to endure the extortion of some hooligans and police. In other words, in Moscow at this time, hooligans and police can be equated, the only difference is the clothes.

However, there are differences. For example, if thugs hit Jiang Yan and his companions on the head, they would usually be beaten and thrown out, but for the police, Jiang Yan would have to spend money to avoid disaster.

Two days later, Andre came to Jiang Yan with a man who looked like their leader.

"Dear Dawalish Jiang, this is our Minister Sergei who is in charge of foreign companies' investment in the country." Andre introduced to Jiang Yan.

"Hello, Minister Sergei."

"Dear Dawalishi, hello, welcome to Moscow." Sergii looked at Jiang Yan with a smile.

During these two days, they have conducted a comprehensive investigation on Jiang Yan. Through their investigation, they know that the man in front of them has many businesses in the Flower-Growing Family. These businesses are running well and bring in huge profits every year. Moreover, this man in the Flower-Growing Family has extraordinary power. More importantly, he not only has businesses in Jiaobenji, but also has corresponding businesses in Hong Kong. His overseas businesses are even larger than domestic businesses, and the total value of those overseas businesses is tens of billions of dollars.

What Jiang Yan didn't know was that in the early 80s, the Russians had once again taken the initiative to invite foreign capitalists to invest here. However, over the past decade, basically no capitalists were willing to come. Even Akio Morita, who was the most afraid of offending the Russians, declined the Russians' request to manufacture Sony televisions.

In fact, this has something to do with the history of the Russian Federation. When the Russian Federation was first established, it allowed foreigners to start companies, but things changed later.

That year, a new generation of leaders came to power and the attitude of the Russian Federation towards foreign investment underwent a fundamental change. Stalin believed that except for some technologies that the Russian Federation had no way of mastering, such as high-tech projects like aircraft engines and automobile engines, the Russian Federation could be self-sufficient in other areas, even if the quality was a little lower and the style was a little uglier.

So, they decided to use the method of "buyout" to expel most of the foreign-funded enterprises from Russia. Of course, if Russia had honestly assessed the value and paid the money, then perhaps there would not have been so many problems later. However, Russia played a magical operation here. After assessing the value of these foreign-funded enterprises, Russia gave them rubles, and did not allow these foreign businessmen to exchange rubles into US dollars, pounds or gold.

You know, under the system of the bear, can't the ruble be printed as much as it wants? This is almost the same as robbing for nothing.

(End of this chapter)