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　　 In order to make Monsanto's genetically modified products go on sale as soon as possible, Kalim spared no expense to provide various attractive services, such as free aircraft spraying operations, and promotional methods such as donated agricultural insurance. Monsanto’s genetically modified seeds are unique in the world today. It has formed its own technical barriers. If any other company wants to enter this field, it must not use Monsanto’s registered gene fragments. This gene fragment comes from the only grass plant that Roundup herbicide cannot kill, petunia. In other words, other seeds cannot use petunia gene fragments to develop herbicide-resistant genetically modified products.

　　Because it is a product recommended by the Farmers Association, the price is cheap and the service is attentive, so many farmers have signed contracts with Monsanto. With Griffith's assistance, Monsanto immediately occupied the 30th South Dakota market and won the first good start since its listing.

　　 Until now, Monsanto’s molecular biology breeding department has not made a profit. However, this does not affect Sergei's respect for this department. Under Selesha’s suggestion, Kalim further increased his support for the Molecular Biology Laboratory. Begin to conduct genetic modification research on all vegetables, fruits, and even economic crops on the market in order to enrich the content of the product line and expand the company's profitability.

Sergei found a new piece of land near the Gorky Automobile Plant as a construction site for a joint venture with Volkswagen Group’s automobile manufacturing plant. He used the management experience and contacts of the construction workers’ new city project in the past to find a suitable construction unit, plus this It is a national key project with sufficient funds. So it quickly entered the construction phase. In order to facilitate the control of this automobile factory, Sergei Shah selected some trusted people from the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation of the Communist Youth League and the Gorky Automobile Factory to arrange for this automobile factory. Because Sergei Sha did not really intend to hand over the car factory to the Soviet government, but to transform the existing car product line in the Soviet Union to better occupy the Latin American market.

Since Churbanov returned to Moscow, the judicial organs of the Soviet Union have not visited again. Although the emperor is far away in Sochi, Moscow is a place where high-ranking officials and dignitaries gather. If Ligachev wants the prosecutors to search with great fanfare The residence of Churbanov would have a bad influence, and the old courtiers who stayed by Brezhnev would not agree with it. So Moscow is much safer than Sochi, at least Ligachev dare not let the prosecutors really take Churbanov away.

　　 But the local officials who did not live in Moscow had a bad luck and became Ligachev's punching bag in Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Georgia and other places. Following in-depth investigations by the judicial authorities, a series of corruption cases were reported to Ligachev. This time, under the guidance of the principle of openness, basically Ligachev will deal with it together, and it will be published together in the newspaper. And also because of the principle of openness, reports on the Soviet leaders in the past have also begun to be critical. Gorbachev and Yakovlev did not have the courage to criticize Lenin, but the media did not take into account the mistakes and faults of Stalin, Khrushchev, Brezhnev and other leaders during their administration. Criticism, such as Stalin's national policy, Khrushchev's great power chauvinism, and Brezhnev's condolences to corruption. This makes the image of these leaders who were originally aloof in the hearts of the people begin to waver.

Both Gorbachev and Yakovlev thought this was a good thing, but these public reports caused dissatisfaction with some minority groups in the Soviet Union. Dissatisfied with the cleansing policy. In the past, due to propaganda reasons, most people did not know about it, but once this matter was discussed publicly, it was tantamount to detonating a nuclear bomb on the ethnic issue of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. . But these cannot be compared with the impact of the Chechen issue. You know, Stalin exiled most of the Chechens and Ingush people to Central Asia. This wound has now been opened again. Those Chechens and Ingush people who have already settled in Central Asia demanded to return to themselves. Hometown.

　　 Yakovlev’s policy has awakened the diminished national consciousness in the Soviet Union. Many ethnic minorities have begun to care about when their nation was incorporated into the Soviet Union. This inevitably involves the cruel history of the early Soviet Union and even the Tsarist Russia period. Since Gorbachev no longer restricts the people’s right to associate, some groups to study ethnic issues began to be established in these areas, such as some Baltic History Research Associations, and Chechnya History Research Associations~www.readwn.com~Georgia Historical Research Association and other groups. They are mainly studying their own past history independently of the traditional Soviet history, which means that the history of these peoples is no longer part of the entire history of the Soviet Union, but an independent history separated from the history of Tsarist Russia and the Soviet Union.

Ligachev, a conservative party, was angry at Yakovlev’s discussion of the negligence of Stalin Brezhnev and other leaders. He thought it would hurt the party’s authority among the people, but with Gorbachev’s support , Yakovlev has become a new generation of bishops in gray, and the ideological field has been separated from the purview of the Secretariat. As an intellectual who has lived in Europe and the United States for ten years, Yakovlev has always felt that Lenin and Stalin's economic policies have big problems. He always wants to change it and create a new set of theories.

Sergei has been watching this struggle in the ideological field. He feels that this discussion has begun to develop in an uncontrollable direction. The elites of various ethnic groups in the newspapers have condemned the chauvinism and invasion and expansion of Tsarist Russia and Russians. This in turn made the majority of Russian elites feel very angry. They began to discuss the various restrictions that Russians were subjected to after the establishment of the Soviet Union, such as the unfair treatment in party membership, employment, and education. Even some Russian economic experts believe that it is because the government has invested too much in minority areas that caused problems in the Soviet Union's economy.

　　 Just as the discussion in the newspapers became more and more heated, the Uzbek cotton case became the first Ligachev case to be executed. Dozens of local officials in charge of Uzbek cotton affairs were escorted back to Moscow by Ligachev's men for investigation. ...