Soviet Godfather - v5 Chapter 241

Since Hungary and Austria agreed to open their borders, some smuggling organizations active in East Germany have found an absolutely safe smuggling channel, which is to receive Hungary, Austria and other countries to flee to West Germany. Since then, the people of East Germany have embarked on large-scale fleeing operations. Many families disappeared without a trace even overnight. In Berlin, a large number of houses were left vacant and became unowned. Many young men and women also live in grandiosely, turning it into their own nest of love.

The world is changing so fast. It was almost too late for the Socialist Unity Party of Germany to adapt. It took only a few weeks for Erich Honecker, who served as the first secretary of the Socialist Unionist Party of Germany for a long time, to go from the wise leader to the enemy of the people. Because after the mass exodus of the population, Comrade Honecker adopted policies of restricting going abroad and controlling news. These two policies have completely stopped the people who were already on the verge of the outbreak, and they have taken to the streets one after another. , Requiring relaxation of restrictions on travel abroad and news media. The degree of wealth of the East German people in the socialist camp is second to none. They resisted the government not because of material dissatisfaction, but in the final analysis because of the constant family ties between the two Germany. Almost every family has relatives who live on the opposite side of the Berlin Wall, and the act of smuggling to the other shore that had to face life-threatening is now suddenly opened by Hungary, and it will be a hundred times more pressure to seal this hole.

The opposition does not only come from the people. Within the Socialist Unity Party in Germany, there are many cadres who are dissatisfied with Honecker’s long-term position as the first secretary. In particular, Honecker ordered the cancellation of the mutual visa exemption with neighboring Czechoslovakia and the policy of prohibiting West Germans from entering East Germany. These two policies were the fuse for the outbreak of large-scale public protests. As the ruling party, the Socialist Unification Party of Germany must stand up to take responsibility and quell the anger of the people. On this issue, Comrade Honecker must never stay out of the way.

Under critical circumstances, Comrade Honecker urgently convened a Politburo meeting to discuss countermeasures. It is a pity that Honecker has now lost its prestige in the past. Even within the Politburo, there are many members who publicly accused Honecker, especially General Erich Milk from the military. He complained about Honecker’s felony in front of all Politburo members, claiming that if Honecker did not resign, he would be discredited.

It is precisely because of the loss of the support of the army that Honecker can only resign because of illness. His successor, Egon Krenz, was just a puppet fostered by the opposition led by Erich Milk. Fortunately, Comrade Honecker said goodbye to his job amidst the opposition and returned home to take care of his life.

However, Egon Krenz made some changes in response to public opinion. He first announced the pardon of East German citizens who fled to West Germany and those who participated in demonstrations. And tried to accept the request of the people to formally contact with the West German government. Seeing the olive branch thrown by East Germany, the West German government was very excited. They have seen the weakening of the Soviet Union’s control over Eastern European countries from a series of changes in Eastern European countries. If the Soviet Union does not over-involve East Germany’s internal affairs, can West Germany further improve its relations with East Germany? This idea is really tempting.

Things happened so quickly. Sergeisha, who had just resolved the 200,000 withdrawals from Poland and Hungary, now had to prepare in advance for a larger wave of withdrawals. And General Secretary Gorbachev is now busy meeting with US President Bush in Malta at the end of the year. Gorbachev eagerly hopes to improve relations with the United States, hoping that increasing trade with the United States will make the Soviet economy out of trouble. The trade treatment between Poland and Hungary now makes Gorbachev salivate. Sergei believed that Gorbachev had been stunned by the American sugar-coated shells.

Sergei is very dissatisfied with Walesa’s move to cross the river and demolish the bridge. He decides to give Walesa a little bit of color to let him know who is the boss. So after signing a ten-year natural gas supply contract with Enron, Sergei informed the Polish Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation that the price of natural gas and oil delivered to Poland will be raised to the same level as in West Germany from next month. Because Poland is no longer an ally of the Soviet Union, it is naturally not able to enjoy the preferential treatment of the socialist family.

After Selesha’s order was issued, Poland protested and blasted the chauvinism of the Soviet Union and the unforgivable crimes committed against Poland during World War II. Sergei didn’t bother to pay attention to them. He directly cut off the gas pipeline and the oil pipeline to Poland. He even detained all trains to Poland. At the request of Selesha, the Gorky Brotherhood also stopped the grain trade with Poland, and Selesha wanted Walesa to taste the bitter fruit he planted.

Now Seleosa’s natural gas terminal in Poland has started supplying ~www.mtlnovel.com~ The closure of natural gas supply to Poland will not affect trade with other Western European countries. Because natural gas can be transported to Europe by sea or through a gas pipeline through Ukraine, there is no place in the small Poland that can threaten the Soviet Union.

The Polish side is very dissatisfied with Selesha’s trade embargo measures, because they are now backed by the United States. Walesa even publicly claimed that cutting off trade ties with the Soviet Union was a farewell to Poland’s history of suffering. Sergey Shah did not respond. He is still organizing domestic enterprises to step up the production of more board-built houses for the withdrawal of troops from Eastern Europe that are about to return.

Sergei Shah has already learned from the Ministry of National Defense. If the Soviet Red Army stationed in Eastern European countries all withdraw to the country, it is estimated that millions of unemployed people will suddenly increase. The housing and work problems of these people are now on Sergei Sha’s shoulders, and they are heavy and breathless. How to create more than one million jobs at once? Now that the Leningrad Special Economic Zone has reached the limit of its capacity, it is simply impossible to settle the withdrawal of millions of Eastern European troops within a few months.

Sergei thought about it and felt that there was no other way but to continue to develop the heavy industry that the Soviet Union was good at. Sergei knew that the Soviet Union lacked light industry and needed to import agricultural products on a large scale from abroad. But the inefficiency of Soviet agriculture is not a problem that can be solved in the short term. On the contrary, vigorously developing private large-scale industries is a good way to relocate a large number of unemployed people. Think about the future Foxconn, almost a factory can accommodate hundreds of thousands of employees. However, Foxconn’s manufacturing is not suitable for the Soviet Union. The Soviets are more suitable for resource industries such as metallurgy and petroleum.

After adjusting his thinking, Sergei determined to emulate the industrial construction during Stalin’s period and build several industrial bases in regions with abundant domestic resources.