Chapter 2 Open Discussion
Shortly after Seryosha visited Yakovlev, Yakovlev sent Gorbachev his first report after taking office, asking the government to write historical and ideological issues. Deregulation, the implementation of open, democratized political reforms. Want to read · 1ka book nshu ·
Yakovlev's report was published in Izvestia, an organ of the CPSU Central Committee, and sparked widespread discussions among officials.
Yakovlev is a person who is not afraid of threats. As early as more than ten years ago, he would rather give up his bright future and openly criticize Brezhnev's foreign policy in the newspaper as a big country chauvinism.
Yakovlev's article was like throwing a brick to attract jade, which stirred up a thousand waves for a while. After seeing that Gorbachev had no intention of punishing Yakovlev, many more excessive remarks also appeared in the newspaper .
Seryozha understood the background of this change very well. Over the years, the top leaders of the Soviet Union have been exploring the path of reform, but the successive deaths of leaders made all reforms seem to have come to a dead end. Now the bureaucratic class and intellectual class in the Soviet Union are getting more and more confused about the path of reform, and everyone has been arguing endlessly about the direction of economic and political reform in the future.
Yakovlev's article was originally intended to serve as a catalyst, but his views were too radical. In addition, Gorbachev did not make any accusations, so the bureaucracy and intellectuals Taking Yakovlev's remarks as the correct path, he began to imitate and surpass, so in the following days, more and more radical remarks appeared in newspapers. One Reading·1kanshu·
Gorbachev saw the phenomenon as a start to improving freedom of speech in the country and praised it. He indicated that the cultural department lifted the ban on the famous banned film "Agonia" in the Soviet Union, and then the people of Moscow rushed to the theater to watch this film. For a while, everyone seemed to feel an atmosphere of freedom that had never been seen before. .
Seryozha had a personal experience of these changes. Because the attitude of the top Soviet leaders towards cultural products has changed, Yulia’s business can also be done with a little more freedom. She came to Moscow to ask Seryozha for more investment, hoping to continue to expand his business. The video rental business went to all parts of Ukraine, and Seryozha happily gave Yulia a new investment.
The resolute actions of Gorbachev and Yakovlev made Seryozha dare not delay the task of promoting the youth science, technology and culture center to the whole country. In order to firmly hold the Youth Science, Technology and Culture Center in his own hands, and at the same time make the most of the preferential policies given by Gorbachev, Seryozha intends to establish the Youth Science and Technology Culture Center nationwide in the form of an enterprise. conduct business.
Since the Youth Science and Technology Cultural Center is more similar to a financial investment institution at the current stage,
Therefore, the necessary risk control mechanism is still necessary. Seriosha does not want to introduce a large number of inferior projects to the Youth Science and Technology Cultural Center just because it is promoted to the whole country, so he copied some of the rules and regulations similar to the loan business of Western commercial banks. As a system and process for attracting investment as a youth science and technology cultural center. What Seryozha did not notice was that his unintentional move made the Youth Science and Technology Cultural Center a real commercial bank within the Communist Youth League. And within the Communist Youth League, due to the encouragement of high-level officials, more elites who devoted themselves to business began to appear, and these are all things to come.
Because of the guarantee of the commercial system, Seryozha's first step was to open branches of the Youth Science and Technology Cultural Center in the district-level youth league committees of the two major cities of Moscow and Leningrad. Khodorkovsky soon applied for a new investment from the Youth Technology and Culture Center to start his second venture in a different line of business, while Berezovsky's devoted himself to auto parts. in the trading industry.
In a market with a low degree of marketization like the Soviet Union, Khodorkovsky and Berezovsky, the pioneers, naturally went smoothly. Some looked down on these small businesses, and he didn't put his mind on it. Seryozha is now considering how to temporarily borrow the huge foreign exchange reserves of the Foreign Trade Bank before the signing of the "Plaza Accord" for the plan to hollow out Japan.
The accounts of Foreign Trade Bank have now been counted by the accounting team trusted by Sergey. The bank now has more than one trillion U.S. dollars in foreign exchange reserves. With this money, Sergey doesn't have to mortgage all his assets. A huge amount of funds has been obtained through leverage, but Seriosha does not have the guts to use all of his foreign exchange reserves to implement this operation. He plans to use about 100 billion US dollars of funds for early deployment. In this case, there is a problem in front of Seryozha, that is, how to transport the 100 billion funds from the Soviet Union to the banking system abroad?
The central bank supervises the funds of the Foreign Trade Bank on a quarterly basis. Basically, every quarter, people will be sent to check the accounts. It takes three months as a cycle. Within this cycle, Sergesha must ensure that the funds can freely enter and exit the Soviet Union's borders and foreign financial systems. This is a big problem that Seryozha never dealt with.
Since he couldn't think of any good ideas for a while, Seryozha could only do something he was sure of first. At this time, Comrade Hammer, who hadn't been in touch for a long time, suddenly called him.
"Seryozha, I just came back from China. I have done what you asked me to do. Do you want to know how the other party replied to you?" Comrade Hamer said on the phone pretending to be an official.
"Old Comrade Hamer, since you have good news, don't sell your officials. Tell me how to get our products into the Chinese market!" Sergey asked impatiently.
"They agreed to use Hong Kong as a transit point for trade. Your goods can be sold to their state-owned enterprises in Hong Kong. Of course, if the relationship between your two countries improves in the future, you can also enter the Chinese market directly!" Ha Mo explained to Seryozha.
"That's really great, I am very grateful to Comrade Hammer! By the way, when will you come to Moscow again! Our Secretary Gorbachev wants to see you again!" Seryozha warmly invited.
"Wait until the weather gets warmer!" Hammer agreed casually.