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Chapter 909: Saving Big Brother (First update, please subscribe)
Li Yian doesn’t care about the Nobel Prize or not. What he cares about is... electric cars!
lithium battery!
"With lithium batteries, electric cars are not far away!"

After returning to the official residence from the laboratory, Li Yian still seemed a little excited.

How can I not be excited!

Lithium batteries are the first step to breaking the hegemony of the petrodollar.

"With lithium batteries, we can wait until the oil crisis comes and take advantage of the situation to undermine the status of oil as a pillar energy source!"

In fact, the role of electric vehicles is not only to break the hegemony of the petrodollar, but also a more important role - to undermine the pillar energy status of oil.

Although oil is the basic raw material of the chemical industry and the annual demand is huge, automobiles account for 24% of global oil consumption. This data highlights the important position of automobiles in the energy field. Moreover, petrochemicals mostly use the remaining raw materials produced in the process of cracking fuel.

If 80% of the cars in the world use new energy vehicles, the demand for gasoline will be greatly reduced, which will inevitably lead to a sharp drop in its price and reduce the importance of oil.

In this case, while there will be no "oil tycoons" emerging in the Middle East, there will also be a side effect - the Soviet economy will not be able to be highly tied to oil.

"Without the huge increase in oil prices after the oil crisis, the Soviet Union would not have made unexpected wealth from oil. Without this unexpected wealth to temporarily cover up the basic economic problems, the Soviet Union would have to promote economic reforms instead of taking drastic measures and destroying self-sufficiency after the situation became irreversible."

In another world, why did the Kosygin Reform in the Soviet Union stop? Wasn't it because of the oil wealth? When the reform was first effective, the oil crisis brought a lot of wealth, making the Soviet Union intoxicated with the good times brought by the oil crisis, and watching with glee as Western capitalist countries suffered from the oil crisis.

This allowed Soviet leaders to follow the old path without having to worry about institutional reform and opening up the economy. In the end, the Soviet economy became heavily dependent on oil and foreign exchange. When international oil prices fell, the Soviet Union's good fortune gradually came to an end. The Soviet economy, which was already on the verge of death and was covered up by the inflow of oil and foreign exchange, not only showed red lights, but all the problems that had been covered up in the past broke out!

At the same time, under various economic blows from the United States, the Soviet Union's economic situation deteriorated. At this time, they had neither the funds nor the time for reform. Ultimately, the economic collapse led to the disintegration of the Soviet Union.

Without the windfall brought by the oil crisis in the 70s, the Soviet economy would not have been highly tied to oil.

"That is to say, whether they like it or not, the Soviet Union must reform its economy and unswervingly implement Kosygin's reforms, even if it means pain, because they have no choice! This is likely to completely change the fate of the Soviet Union!"

After figuring this out, Li Yian leaned back in his chair and couldn't help but exclaimed in amazement.

"Oh my God, I'm going to save Big Brother." Save the Soviet Union!

There has never been any savior in the world, but now, Li Yian finds himself moving towards becoming a savior.

In another world, one of the important reasons for the collapse of the Soviet Union was its economic collapse, and this collapse was not without reason - the economy stagnated and remained rigid for decades.

According to later generations, the Soviet Union’s only chance to save itself economically was Kosygin’s economic reforms!

It’s a pity that Kosygin’s reforms ultimately ended in failure!
What was the reason for the failure of Kosygin's reforms?
"The state-owned enterprise giants, led by the military-industrial complex, state-owned big stores and collective farms, obtained huge profits from the new wave of economic plans and the global energy crisis. By exploiting the member states and exporting low-end crude processed products and energy chemicals, they created the "economic prosperity" in the mid-70s, which made the conservative forces completely monopolize the economic system. While constantly encroaching on the economic structure, they formed a severely expanded "state-owned oligarch" rent-seeking group, which seriously hindered the economic development and transformation of the Soviet Union. This abnormal development made it difficult to guarantee the livelihood of the people in the late Soviet Union. People suffered in the industry-oriented model of economic stagnation and spent more than years of gloomy and inactive low-quality life. During the Khrushchev period, the Soviet Union held a tough view with an idealistic color, believing that the political and economic advantages of the Soviet Union would be further released and eventually surpass capitalist countries. In the late Brezhnev era, a desperate and negative mood permeated the Soviet Union. Everyone knew that the whole society was just waiting for death, and only the sales of vodka grew steadily..."

Recalling another world and the analyses of countless economists and sociologists, Li Yian's brows slightly raised, the corners of his mouth turned up, and he even felt very excited.

"Without oil and foreign exchange, they had to reform. At that time, the Soviet Union had the time, money and ability to carry out reforms. In this way, the crisis in the 1980s would not have occurred. Even if a crisis broke out, it would not have been a systemic crisis that ultimately destroyed the entire Soviet Union..."

In fact, he was always very cautious, even careful, in dealing with the Soviet Union. There is a saying in Europe: After shaking hands with a Russian, check carefully to see if any of your fingers have been broken off.

This is the experience accumulated from hundreds of years of dealing with the Russians. It is still unknown whether it is correct, but one thing is certain: we must be cautious.

But saving the Soviet Union, or rather, keeping the Cold War going.

For Nanyang, there are only benefits and no disadvantages.

"As long as the Soviet threat exists, the United States must win over Southeast Asia!"

Thinking of this, Li Yian made a deduction on paper, just like the protagonist of the book "Starting Deduction, American Tycoon" he read before crossing over, and began to deduce the future...

(End of this chapter)