Siheyuan starts from a better life

Chapter 1119: Sharing Fruit

"Now that this topic has been discussed, let's discuss the appointment of subsequent government officials. Currently, a series of positions such as the Minister of Transport and the Minister of Civil Affairs are still vacant." Boris signaled Chubais to issue another document.

"What do you think about the position of Minister of Transport, Rutskoi?" Boris asked suddenly.

Jiang Yan's expression changed. What's this? Just a beating and then a sweet date.

Rutskoi pretended to think for two seconds, then said, "How about Sidorov, the current Deputy Minister of the Soviet Ministry of Transport?"

"What race is he?" Boris continued.

"The big hairy people."

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Listening to the discussion of these positions, Jiang Yan suddenly felt cold all over. He tried hard to shrink himself and not let others see him. If he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, he really couldn't imagine that the future ministers, governors, and presidents of the fraternal states of Mao were discussed one by one like a child's play.

It was just like kindergarten kids, lining up and eating fruit. Jiang Yan's heart was once again filled with a sense of unreality, like a dream. A group of children sitting in a villa, writing an outline and wanting to set up a government.

However, Jiang Yan remained silent, watching everyone quietly, watching them slide the fruits of victory into their pockets. After an unknown amount of time, the fruits were finally distributed, and Boris announced the adjournment of the meeting.

In order not to attract the attention of the Kremlin, Boris did not intend to hold a banquet to celebrate and just left. Others also left the villa carefully in batches.

Jiang Yan smiled at himself in his heart, he came and went in a hurry.

As soon as Jiang Yan left the villa, he was stopped by Kadanfu, and the two of them sat in his car together. Both of them were silent, and neither of them wanted to talk at all.

After a full twenty minutes, Kadanfu said in a somewhat dry tone, "I feel that he has changed. He has become more bureaucratic. He is only interested in power, but he wants to have a daring team and eliminate all the old bureaucrats. He also understands that to us, he is God and we must follow him. I have also changed. I don't even recognize myself anymore."

"To be honest, I hate myself right now, but there is nothing I can do but move forward."

"I think you are making fun of what happened today. To be honest, if you were one of us, you would have a place today." Kadanfu's words were a bit confusing, but Jiang Yan heard something different from his words. However, Jiang Yan didn't know what to say. He patted Luzhkov on the shoulder, but didn't know what to say.

However, Jiang Yan knew in his heart that Kadanov hoped to establish a country as free as the United States, while Boris was now using authoritarian means. It was a paradox in itself to want to implement democracy with authoritarian means. If he were a strong man like his successor Vladimirovich, perhaps the reform would succeed. Unfortunately, he was not. It could be said that Boris was still a little weak.

As for why Russia likes strongman politics, Russia's development history shows that Russia's most powerful or most respected period was when there were strongmen who ruled with great power. For example, Alexander the Great, Catherine the Great, Stalin in the Soviet era, and Vladimirovich now, are all strongmen who have been in power for decades. Moreover, under the rule of strongmen, Russia will be stronger and more cohesive. More importantly, Russians also like and worship strongmen.

Or it is because Russia is too large. Russia's territory is the largest in the world, more than 1700 million square kilometers, tens of thousands of miles from east to west. However, with such a vast territory, its core is located in a remote corner, in faraway Europe. Under such circumstances, the core area cannot effectively radiate to the entire territory. Therefore, in this case, it is necessary to concentrate power and have a strong hand to effectively rule the whole country. This is the most critical point. Therefore, Russia can only unify and effectively control its vast territory under the rule of a strong man. This is the key factor.

Another reason is that it is too poor. Although the country is large, its overall economic level is very backward, especially the vast Siberia, which is almost uninhabited and not as developed as Africa. In this case, the industrial base is weak, so the allocation of resources is particularly important. And the resources of Russia are concentrated in the uninhabited Siberia. Therefore, as a country, it is necessary to implement effective control to distribute wealth and resources. It is necessary to implement strong centralization so that the country can operate effectively. Otherwise, the local states that control resources will not be able to urinate in the same pot with the central government, so how can the country be centralized.

Secondly, the ethnic groups are too complicated. There are more than 100 ethnic groups in Mao, and Mao, as the main ethnic group, is not very strong. In the Soviet era, Mao accounted for only 51%, while there were more than 100 other ethnic groups. Even now, Mao accounts for more than 70%, and the population is still declining. Such a situation is likely to lead to instability.

And the most important thing is that the history of integration between these ethnic groups and Mao Zedong is only a few hundred years, which is far from enough, unlike our country, which has been integrated for thousands of years. So in this case, in order to unite the people, a strong and powerful figure must appear, become the hero of the entire country, and achieve complete control, which is also very important.

The last and most important reason is that after the rise of Russia, Russia fought for hundreds of years and fought with all the major powers in the world. Therefore, the situation around it is very dangerous. If a country is slightly weak or declining, it will be attacked by everyone, as was the case in the Gorbachev and Yeltsin eras. Therefore, Russia needs to gather internal strength at all times to deal with external threats, otherwise the country is at risk of collapse at any time. This is also very core. Therefore, it is difficult for Russia to implement democracy, and it can only go further and further on the path of strongmen.

Boris just didn't see the reason and wanted to promote the democracy of the Eagle Sauce, but it ended in failure. This also caused Russia to fall into an unprecedented decline. This was analyzed quite accurately by later scholars. Does Jiang Yan want to say it? Of course not.

Whether they are in chaos or not seems to have little to do with him, and as long as Da Mao continues to follow the route of his previous life, he can get the most benefit from it, not to mention that he now has the ability to gently push Da Mao's big ship.

And he will help. After all, there are still tasks to be done. We cannot let Da Mao become as weak as in history, otherwise we will be under tremendous pressure.

"Last time you talked about what's going on with the counterfeit and shoddy products of the flower-growing family appearing in Moscow." Jiang Yan decided to change the subject and talk about the issue that concerned him.

Kadanfu smiled and said, "This is exactly what I wanted to tell you. I guess you need to deal with it."

He said it lightly, but Jiang Yan was terrified when he heard it. He knew the negative impact of these counterfeit and shoddy products.

(End of this chapter)