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However, in the Soviet Union during this period, there happened to be a very strange phenomenon-there was a shortage of goods, and the shelves of stores were empty. ticket".All in all, all in all, it is that ordinary people have money but can't buy things, and large sums of rubles have no value except in banks.The only thing people who run border trade know is that doing business with Lao Maozi is very easy and very profitable.Most of them have no cultural background, and some of them only need to speak a few simple words in Russian, such as "Hala Shao" (good), "Oqin Ha La Shao" (very good), "Dallas Vijay" (hello) , "Dawalishi" (comrade) and other simple expressions, and then you can count on your fingers.Those old men are very generous, so generous that they are so stupid that they will spend forty or fifty rubles to buy an inferior down jacket that is not worth 30 or [-] yuan in China; they are willing to take out thousands of rubles at a time and buy it. The whole slab of pork you just put on the shelf; they'll fight each other over for a carton of canned fish.

Relying on mountains and Chishan, relying on water to drink water, then relying on the border, it is naturally self-evident, and the shrewd Chinese began border trade smuggling activities.

Compared with their small businesses running border trade, Ye Laosi can be said to be a big deal, but he also has a weakness, that is, his identity is very sensitive.I had no choice but to get a fake passport and a fake identity. Thanks to his youthful rebellion, he got in touch with a lot of people, he was mixed up in various religions, he was a full-fledged playboy, cynical, and tainted with the atmosphere of a gangster. This made Ye Laosi dumbfounded. It took several years of military service for the disciple's temperament to be covered up, otherwise he might be heroic at the beginning. [

We all know that the more the country prohibits private sales of goods, the more profitable it will be, and this will not change at any time.The Soviet Union is located in the extreme north. Tobacco and alcohol have always been indispensable consumer goods in the lives of Soviet people. The national policy strictly restricts the sale of tobacco, but it cannot prohibit private trade. Therefore, smuggled goods have become smokers to relieve their addiction the only way.

Just take tobacco as an example. On the black market in the Soviet Union, the price of a constant weight ounce (the international common weight unit: 28350 grams per ounce) of medium tobacco is between 80 and 150 rubles. Ordinary tobacco sold for tens of grams of one or two hundred yuan would probably be beaten to death.As for finished cigarettes, the price on the Soviet black market was even higher.During this period, the most cigarettes sold on the black market in the Far East of the Soviet Union were basically from domestic sources. Domestic packs of "Daqianmen" and "Dafuzi" cost 120 cents a pack, and the black market price was 150 rubles a piece; A pack of "Beidaihe", "Evergrande" and "Shanhaiguan", the black market price ranges from 470 rubles to [-] rubles; From four hundred to [-] rubles a piece.As for the "Three Fives", "Hilton", and "Marlboro" made abroad, there is no fixed price on the black market, because there is a price market, and even if someone has the goods, they dare not sell them on the black market— —Smuggling western cigarettes, if you get caught, you won't be fined.

Ye Laosi first smuggled tobacco, alcohol and light industrial products for civilian use. There is no need to worry about being investigated by his own people in China, because the higher authorities turn a blind eye to it, and all he has to do is to lay out the route from the Soviet Union, and then It's completely unblocked.At the beginning, Ye Laosi didn't have such great ambitions, and for the sake of long-term interests, he acted more cautiously. After all, the Soviet regime was still there, and no matter what, it was still on other people's territory. However, as time went by, he His ambition is getting bigger and bigger, and his courage is getting bigger and bigger.

With the expansion of Ye Laosi's ambition, his perception of the whole life is that this is a game on the gambling table. Since he has entered this game, there is no day when he will quit. Anyone who wants to win this game, You must continue to win money and increase your bets until one day you become a dealer.

The channel opened with money, dare to do anything, as long as you can afford the price.Ye Lao Si came in with a purpose, and he dared not forget his original intention.That was to get close to the Soviet military for what he needed.

However, if they didn't take him to win over the corrupt, the Soviet soldiers were really poor and they came to the door themselves.This also allowed Ye Laosi to clearly see how serious the corruption in the military was. If he could see the whole leopard at a glance, he would know the extent of corruption in the entire Soviet Union.

It is not easy to be a soldier in the Soviet Union these days. The salary is not only pitifully low, but also often owed. The large-scale corruption of the Soviet army is not without reason.For an army that is about to become fully corrupt, the most important thing is to be able to get money and get the most money in the shortest time, regardless of the source of your money.

Ever seen army smuggling?The first time Ye Laosi saw the whole division smuggling was really spectacular. It turned out that it was carried out secretly, but it was completely made public this year.

The "mainstream faction" in the Kremlin has completely denied the Soviet Union's achievements in decades of construction, rejected Marxism-Leninism, and leaned towards the West. This has led to confusion in the thinking of the Soviet leadership and aroused the dissatisfaction of the "traditional" military forces.In order to force the Kremlin to back down, the military forces dominated by the traditional faction began to sway the leadership of the central government, and the Soviet Central Committee lost its dominance over the army. This resulted in the expansion of the authority of the local military region.On the other hand, in order to force the "traditional faction" to back down, the Kremlin tightened military expenditures and cut off financial allocations for the military, which caused financial difficulties for local military regions and unsustainable military expenditures. This has become the most direct cause of corruption in the military.An army that has relatively independent authority but lacks military spending is terrible. Therefore, to a certain extent, military business collusion and wanton corruption are already the best choices. At least it is better than military riots, smashing and looting. Burning is much better.

Just in March of this year, the situation in Moscow deteriorated sharply, and the power struggle among the three factions entered a feverish stage. At the just-concluded extraordinary session of the Russian Federation People's Congress, the "radicals" disregarded the Kremlin's ban on , blatantly provoked a 10-person parade, demanding the dissolution of the National People's Congress and the Supreme Soviet.The outbreak of this incident completely shook the foundation of the central and local governments of the Soviet Union, causing panic everywhere in the Soviet Union, and the governments of states and cities far away on the border were no exception.Almost every government official knows that now is the time to "stand in line".But having said that, the Far East near our border is not the same as other places in the Soviet Union. This is the frontier, where the army is most powerful. Here, the guns in the hands of the soldiers are far more powerful than Moscow’s policies and regulations, so , The local government compromised with the local garrison.

Immediately afterwards, a series of major events occurred in Moscow that could shock the entire Soviet Union, and the occurrence of these events made everyone in the Soviet army in the Far East feel insecure.Undoubtedly, compared with ordinary people in the country, these high-ranking generals understand the changes in the world better. The successive large-scale demonstrations of tens of thousands of people in Moscow made them sensitively aware that the current Soviet regime It's already in jeopardy.And the so-called "mainstream faction" and "traditional faction" in the high-level government have repeatedly compromised and retreated from the "democratic program faction", which obviously intensified the sense of crisis of these generals. The idea of ​​making money and thinking about future plans began to envelope the hearts of various military forces.

As a soldier, it is his job to defend his family and the country. This is not wrong at all, but soldiers also have family members, and everyone has to eat and support their families. People say, "Raise a soldier for a thousand days, and use it for a while." Obviously, This soldier has to be raised, "only let the horse run, not let the horse eat grass", this horse will also rebel, not to mention that there are hundreds of thousands of soldiers under the Far East Military Region with weapons in their hands.

However, in the face of the delayed funding from the Ministry of National Defense, the heads of the major military regions have nothing to do.So, in desperation, everyone imitated the practice of garrisoning troops in various places in Eastern Europe, and issued an order to the commanders of their troops at all levels-"raise military salaries independently as much as possible". Living.

Of course, from the perspective of the entire Soviet Union, the high-level leaders have nothing to do with the issue of arrears of salaries to the troops.

As the saying goes: "Eat mountains by relying on mountains, and drink water by relying on water." What can this army live on?There is no doubt that it is smuggling and arms trafficking.

At that time, Ye Laosi hesitated for a while, and finally gritted his teeth, why the hell didn't he do it.At first, it was a small fight on the border of Eastern Europe. Eastern Europe was the first to be turbulent, so the forces of all parties in the West continued to infiltrate.However, this year, the entire Soviet Union was in turmoil, and the Far East was far away from our border. There was no reason to let this piece of fat go, so he started a business of smuggling arms.

At the beginning of this year, the financial difficulties of the Soviet government finally broke out in an all-round way, and the ensuing general corruption of the army finally came to the fore.For those ignorant people in the Soviet Union who advocated Western-style democracy and clamored for reform and reform all day long, the disaster they single-handedly caused was about to erupt. The dawn is revealed.

There are two most profitable things in this world. One is drugs, and the other is arms smuggling. Of course, keep the good things for yourself, and sell the others. Arms smuggling is not only about guns, but also planes, tanks, artillery, and even nuclear materials. (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to come to () to subscribe and reward. Your support is my biggest motivation.)

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