Soviet Godfather - v5 Chapter 276

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On December 31, 1990, less than 12 hours had passed since the ringing of the New Year’s bell at this moment. On the construction site of the Tyumen oil field, tens of thousands of people gathered here waiting for a historic moment. Sergey Sha, wearing a safety helmet on his head, stood quietly on the muddy and icy ground. Despite the cold and freezing fieldwork, everyone was full of excitement.

Several heavy cranes not far away dropped a section of the pipeline into the air and then slowly moved to the gap in the last section of the Eurasian natural gas pipeline. The welding workers who have been waiting there are already eager to try.

Despite the severe cold wind in Siberia, it still cannot stop people’s enthusiasm. The Eurasian natural gas pipeline project that runs through the east and west of the Soviet Union will soon be completed ahead of schedule. Hundreds of thousands of Soviet construction workers have been fighting for this for more than half a year. Now the media organizations across the Soviet Union are quietly waiting for this sign. Almost everyone in the Soviet Union knows how much improvement the Soviet Union’s economy will be in the future once this natural gas pipeline is fully connected.

Just a few days ago, the three major international rating agencies raised the sovereign credit rating of the Soviet Union. You know, not long ago, four republics declared their independence from the Soviet Union! However, political instability did not have any impact on the strong rebound of the Soviet economy. Since some regions want to withdraw from the Soviet Union, and the laws of the Soviet Union have made explicit provisions on this, everything can be advanced in accordance with legal procedures. It’s going to rain, my mother is going to marry, let him go. This kind of thing is not a big deal for those who still love this country.

At the last meeting of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Soviet Union, Sergeysha and Ligachev’s Marxist-Leninist program group had a frank communication with Yakovlev’s democratic program group. After this discussion, It re-established the way forward for the CPSU in the future, and inherited and carried forward the socialist starting point theory put forward by General Secretary Andropov under the ideology of abandoning the first-stage transformation. Concentrate all the work of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union on economic construction. At the same time, in order to deal with the risk of the disintegration of the Soviet Union, strengthen the relationship between the Soviet Union and the party organizations of the Republic. Even if the Soviet Union does split in the future, the CPSU cannot be split.

At this meeting, both the Marxist-Leninist programmatic group represented by Ligachev and the Yakovlev democratic programmatic group made certain concessions. This is because facts have proved that Ligachev’s political views are no longer possible, and Yakovlev’s political views will cause the CPSU to face a split. Therefore, returning to the starting point theory is of great significance to the CPSU, because it means that the CPSU has another tangible goal that it can fight for.

As part of the economic reform, Sergey Shah has begun drastically reforming the domestic zombie company Venus. In dealing with these companies that have accumulated debts that are no longer able to generate profits for the country, Sergei Sha chose to completely privatize, clean up and rectify the property rights of these companies, and use the funds raised by privatization to properly arrange the original employees. .

The Soviet Union was originally a high-welfare country. Medical care, education, and housing were completely free. The market-oriented reforms are only concentrated in the industrial and agricultural production sectors. Even if future employees are unemployed, there will be no major problems with their livelihoods. Xie Liaosha did not dare to reform those industries that are related to domestic livelihood issues. This is because if these industries are messed up by private capital, they will cause strong dissatisfaction among the people. After all, it’s nothing to drive without a car, but if you don’t have a house to live in, you don’t have food to eat, you can’t afford to get sick, and you can’t afford to go to school, the people must overthrow the government. Not possible.

When the final welding work was completed, the entire construction site rang neatly and loudly “Ula!” The workers who have struggled for more than half a year embraced each other excitedly. In the most critical situation, the Soviet Union still insisted on building this natural gas pipeline, known as the eighth wonder of the world. Just before this pipe was run through. Japan and South Korea in East Asia, Britain, France and Germany in Western Europe have signed new natural gas cooperation agreements with the Soviet Union, and the newly established Eastern European Unified Market Organization has also signed a 10-year cooperation agreement with the Soviet Union. The natural gas of the Soviet Union became the most stable source of energy in East Asia and Europe.

The construction army recruited by Sergei Sha will not experience large-scale unemployment due to the completion of the natural gas pipeline, because in fact, another oil pipeline that also connects the Komsomolsk and Leningrad is about to start. In addition, the international oil pipeline from Kuwait to Syria contracted by the Soviet Union is also on the agenda. In the energy infrastructure construction industry alone, the demand for labor is in short supply. Not to mention other industries in the Soviet Union.

The reversal of the economic environment finally allowed the reform of the CPSU to find the right direction. For the Soviet Union, energy and heavy industry are still the Soviet Union’s best industries. The Soviets are not suitable for producing things that are directly oriented to the consumer market, such as electronic products and other gadgets that are now popular in the world. However, in the petrochemical industry, construction machinery industry, as well as petroleum exploration equipment, mining equipment and other aspects, the Soviet Union still leads the world.

Out of the need to save government expenditures~www.mtlnovel.com~ the CPSU collectively decided to significantly reduce defense expenditures. The four new-generation aircraft carriers originally built in Ukrainian shipyards were put on the international trading platform. Countries such as India and Brazil are very interested in this. When the Soviet Union proposed that the four aircraft carriers could be purchased through barter trade instead of foreign exchange, even China and Argentina participated. The Soviet Union’s trading model is an innovation in the world. It sells high-value-added industrial and military products in exchange for low-value-added agricultural products, resource products, and primary industrial products. In this way, the threshold for transactions can be lowered, and it can be exchanged.

So at the beginning of 1991, the Soviet Union reached an agreement with India to exchange aircraft carriers for rice and tea, Brazil for coffee and soybeans for aircraft carriers, Argentina for beef for aircraft carriers, and China for a new type of international arms exchange for light industrial products. transaction. After the completion of these four transactions, while meeting its own needs, the Soviet Union also exported these goods to Eastern Europe and other European countries. This incident opened up a whole new path for the Soviet arms trade. Some African countries and Latin American countries suddenly discovered that the threshold for purchasing weapons in the Soviet Union is not high. What used to be obtained with a large amount of US dollars now only needs their own minerals. And agricultural products are enough, which is too much trouble.

Under Sergeisha’s control, the Soviet Union did not default on debts from beginning to end, and the London Club of international creditors had agreed to the plan to convert most of the Soviet Union’s bonds into investment. The biggest crisis in the Soviet economy was finally over.