Siheyuan starts from a better life

Chapter 1135 Death of the Mao Bear
After returning to the Ukraine Hotel, Jiang Yan returned to his original lazy life. When he had time, he would listen to the reports from Huang Yang and others, chat with Arov and others, and attend some parties. As for the rest of the time, he basically stayed at home all the time. He was quite a homebody.

December 24th. Jiang Yan was very abnormal today. He sat quietly on the large balcony right after dinner, staring at the Kremlin in the distance and the Soviet flag on it.

Two glasses of red wine were poured on the table next to him. He wanted to see off this red giant that had existed for seventy-four years.

Jiang Yan and his generation have complicated feelings towards Mao Xiong. After all, Mao Xiong was once a brother who shared weal and woe with the Flower Country, and was also the first country to recognize the New Flower Country. After the establishment of the New Flower Country, Mao Xiong's assistance to the Flower Country was the largest assistance between countries in history, allowing the Flower Country to initially establish a complete industrial system. However, due to various conflicts later, Jiang Yan's feelings towards it are quite complicated, but the fall of Mao Xiong is undoubtedly beneficial to the country as a whole.

Thinking of this, Jiang Yan couldn't help but speak softly in Russian.

"Hey, comrade. Do you know where Leningrad and Stalingrad are? I can't find them on the map."

"No more, no more. We have failed. The White House and the capitalists are riding on our heads again. If you want to chase the red star, go to the East. Cross the Dnieper River, over the Ural Mountains, and at the end of the Siberian Plain, there is still a spark of fire."

Then Jiang Yan spoke again in a low voice in Chinese.

"Comrade, I have come to the place you mentioned. This is no longer a spark, but a raging fire that will set the prairie ablaze. I believe that one day it will burn across the Dnieper River, through the Himalayas and illuminate the entire Asia!
"The red star will never disappear. It is in Paris, Moscow, Washington, Berlin, London, New Delhi, and BJ. In the dirty slums, in the iron and fire factories, in the wrinkles on the faces of farmers, and in the bright eyes of teenagers. The iron alliance was broken, but the remaining sparks drifted to the east, to that place. With the efforts of the people, it created a solid barrier and founded an army of steel."

The louder and more resonant the sound became, the setting sun shone on Jiang Yan's face, and there was an indescribable feeling.

Half a month ago, Boris went to Belarus and, without telling Gorbachev, signed an agreement in Belovezh with the leaders of Ukraine and Belarus, announcing that the Soviet Union would cease to exist and the Commonwealth of Independent States would be established to replace it.

As seven o'clock in the evening arrived, Gorbachev officially announced his resignation on TV, putting a huge end to the Soviet Union, and handed over the nuclear arsenal briefcase symbolizing the supreme commander to Boris.

The Soviet flag not far away also fell slowly under the care of the sunset, becoming history and part of people's memory. Suddenly, Jiang Yan felt that the surroundings became dead silent, so quiet that it was a little scary. Everything was silent, as if all the sounds had disappeared.

But soon, a burst of crying suddenly rang out!
This was like a fuse, and countless cries suddenly emerged, the cries became louder and louder, deafening, ghosts wailing, and the whole city of Moscow became a sea of ​​crying. For all the former Soviets, this Christmas Eve was not peaceful, because their greatest support was gone.

Seeing the red flag being lowered, Jiang Yan sighed softly. It couldn't be said that he was sad, but his mood was a little complicated at this moment.

The Soviet Union is China's best teacher. It once divided our country, guided our revolution, assisted us, fought side by side with us, but also hurt us.

China told it, I want to buy missiles, but I have no money, so I have to pay off the debt with oil; it said, just come and pick up the goods!
Hua Xia said to it, I want to learn how to build and operate railways, but I have no money, so I have to use mines to pay off my debts; it said, just come and learn, I guarantee you will learn it!
China told it, I want to learn steelmaking, manufacturing, chemical synthesis, uranium enrichment, airplane building, and intercontinental missiles;
Some people will probably think, Hua Xia is crazy, right? Who would help you like this?
However, there was one country that actually did this for China, and that was the Soviet Union.

The Soviet Union assisted China in building 156 large projects worth 94 billion rubles, turning our country from an agricultural country into an industrial country. There were many large machines, but the Soviet Union only built two, one for them and one for us.

It took Britain 50 years, Germany 35 years, the Soviet Union 20 years, and China only 5 years to transform an impoverished agricultural country into an industrial country capable of building airplanes and tanks. The Soviet Union's aid to China was the only organized and comprehensive industrialization of an agricultural country in human history. They even helped to develop nuclear weapons. It was truly unique.

Even if they died, the Soviets were telling China what the fate of a red superpower heading towards so-called capitalism would be for the free world: a divided country, a poor and weak nation, and no future. The second largest superpower in the world, the pillar of the red camp, one of the two poles of the world, the whole of Europe was trembling under the Soviet steel torrent!
Moscow in January 1992 was still surrounded by a bleak and withered winter. A heavy snow had just fallen yesterday. The streets, street lamps, and roofs were all covered with thick snow, but there was no sign of any sanitation workers. The snow was left to be trampled on by hurried pedestrians, and the snow became more and more solid.

Jiang Yan, Arov, Kadanf and Gaidar were walking casually on the street with heavy expressions. The sound of their footsteps on the snow was particularly harsh in the empty and silent street.

After a long time, they arrived in front of a grain store. Only then did Jiang Yan realize that people were queuing in a long queue in front of the grain store, which was two or three hundred meters long.

But the strange thing was not this, but that there was no more noise as usual, because the grain store was almost empty. The women still did not give up, and went to the grain store one by one, and when they were told that there was no grain, they shook their heads and left quietly, or squatted on the ground after walking a few steps, holding their heads and crying, because they could not face their hungry children.

They knew that there was no food in the grain store, and even ten days ago, there was no food in the grain store, but they had no place to go except to queue here numbly. This was the place with the greatest hope. If there was no hope here, then other places would be surrounded by despair.

"Now, the whole of Moscow, even Russia, is paralyzed. People have long lost interest in work. All they think about all day is how to get food, supplies, and clothes."

"Jiang, I need your help. This is also what Boris meant." Kadanfu looked at Jiang Yan seriously and spoke word by word.

"Jiang, I don't understand. Everything was going in a good direction before. The stores were filled with a wide variety of goods. How could it suddenly become like this!" Gaidar said painfully.

Jiang Yan sighed helplessly again. An oversupply of goods does not mean prosperity, but the beginning of an economic crisis.

(End of this chapter)