Soviet Godfather

Vol 5 Chapter 240: Turbulent Eastern Europe

Poland and Hungary, which betrayed from the socialist camp, were naturally boycotted by the socialist countries headed by the Soviet Union, but the United States was quite interested in them. No, Walesa has just been elected as the new Prime Minister of Poland, and the new US President Bush took the initiative to visit Hungary and Poland.

In Hungary, Bush promised to grant Hungary the most-favored-nation trade status, while also providing Hungary with an annual aid of US$1 billion. This makes the Hungarian government, which is suffering from economic downturn and insufficient supply, very considerate. Bush’s approach is also effective for Poland. As an old friend of the United States, the Solidarity trade union in Walesa has forfeited the benefits of undertaking Americans and Americans over the years. . However, the preferential treatment in international trade gave the Polish government and Walesa a reassurance. For Walesa, who has just emerged to take power, Bush’s guarantee seems to have put a safety lock on Walesa’s first term as prime minister. At least in terms of economic construction, Walesa believes that he can turn things around.

The discoloration of Hungary and Poland affects not only these two countries. Since the opening of the Austrian-Hungarian border, a large number of East Germans have fled to West Germany through the Austrian-Hungarian border. At the same time, in East Germany, repeated strikes and demonstrations pushed East German leader Honecker to the crater. Even the ruling party of East Germany, the German Unification Socialist Party, appeared to let Honecker step down. voice. This is simply another version of Hungary's removal of Kadar.

The strikes and demonstrations demanding reforms are like the plague spread from one country to another. In Romania, the six former leaders of the Romanian Communist Party openly opposed the dictatorship of Ciosescu. Although the Romanian secret police is well-known in the socialist camp, it is almost as famous as the KGB, but people are not afraid of danger and rush to join the anti-Ziosescu camp.

In Bulgaria, the party is full of calls for the resignation of the first secretary of the Bulgarian Communist Party, Todor Zhivkov. Zhivkov has been the first secretary of Bulgaria for a long time like Kadar, although Bulgaria has been the first secretary of Bulgaria since the 1960s. Reforms are underway, but until now, Zhivkov's reforms have not brought any benign changes to Bulgaria. Both party comrades and ordinary people have lost patience with Zhivkov. But Zhivkov was still unwilling to retreat from the position of first secretary.

In Czechoslovakia, people publicly held a parade to commemorate the victims of the Soviet invasion of Prague two decades ago. The death of a college student at the event triggered even greater riots. In Yugoslavia, the relationship between Kosovo and Serbia is simply another version of Georgian time. Even Albania, which had broken relations with the Soviet Union, was in turmoil.

The blooming color revolutions have already caused the socialist camp to falter. The growing democratic separatism in the country even left the Soviet Union without a stable political environment for economic construction. People are addicted to political activities such as protests and demonstrations. Who will farm the land, who will work in factories, and who will teach in schools?

The Soviet Red Army stationed in Hungary and Poland has become unsustainable. The outside of their camp is now surrounded by the local army. A little carelessness may lead to armed conflict. The American guarantee gave Hungary and Poland the courage to say no to the Soviet Union. They even gave an ultimatum to the Soviet government, demanding that the Soviet Union withdraw within a time limit.

-----This is a gorgeous dividing line--

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----This is a gorgeous dividing line---

Cut the garrison, otherwise they will send their own troops to help the Soviet garrison leave their homeland. Sergei couldn't see the cheesy faces of Hungary and Poland. He personally called Gorbachev and asked the garrisons stationed in the two countries to raise the alert level. Sergei was moved with affection and reason, because the Soviet Union was about to enter the cold winter, and nearly 200,000 troops stationed in the two countries could only live in tents in the cold Siberian wind if they returned home now. Gorbachev remained unmoved, but in the end Shevardnadze negotiated some settlement costs from the two governments.

When the Polish garrison returned to Leningrad by boat, Selesha personally went to the dock to greet him. There was no welcome crowd at the scene, because they were not the victors of the expedition for the country. Now they are just withdrawing troops expelled by Poland, and they have a similar mood to those who returned from Afghanistan.

Sergei gave a speech at the scene, and he thought that these people promised that they would have their own jobs after returning to China. Although the Leningrad Special Economic Zone is still blank, they can build their own homes with their own hands.

Almost overnight, Selesha had another 200,000 construction workers, who set up tents around the roads in the city that had just been built in Leningrad. In order for everyone to live in relatively warm board-built houses when winter really arrives, Sergei Sha has sent countless orders to almost all factories in the country that can produce board-built houses. He even mobilized wagons to transport the board to Leningrad to build houses~www.readwn.com~ At the same time, the cadres of the Leningrad Special Economic Zone, such as Yeltsin and Nastia, are all in front-line management of board building construction. jobs.

Under Yeltsin’s excellent management, the resettlement work and construction work have always gone hand in hand. The first phase of the Leningrad Petrochemical Project and the Leningrad Natural Gas Terminal have finally completed the construction work and officially started production. The resettlement housing project was also successfully completed. The Leningrad Special Economic Zone finally has some decent demonstration projects.

The completion of the first batch of projects gave foreign investors a reassurance, especially the completion of the natural gas terminal, which made Leningrad the largest natural gas trading market in the Baltic Sea and the Nordic region. Almost on the second day of the completion of the natural gas terminal, the upstart American Enron, a natural gas power generation company in the U.S. market, signed a ten-year supply contract with Soviet natural gas Konzern led by Chernomyrdin, with a total contract value of more than 100%. One hundred million U.S. dollars.

This news made Gorbachev admire Selesha for a while, and it also made Gorbachev even more convinced that the Leningrad Special Economic Zone was the correct way to reform the Soviet Union's economy. Gorbachev trusted and relied more on Selesha, and at the same time eased his hostility towards Yeltsin.

Under the temptation of money, Selesha finally fulfilled his guarantee. Before the first snowfall in the Soviet Union, all the workers in Leningrad lived in slab construction houses. The workers knew that they were not in the snowstorm. Who is shivering in the tent? Although it is still cold in the board building, they at least have some hope. Now every time Sergei came to inspect the construction situation, a large number of people came to greet him spontaneously. Sergei enjoyed this feeling in his heart, even if he earned tens of trillions of dollars in Japan, he did not work on the construction site. Our children tied a red scarf around his neck to make him happy.

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