Chapter 125 The Polish Guest
The official reason for Seryozha to come to the Czech Republic this time is to inspect the automobile industry here. The famous automobile manufacturer Skoda is located in Mdala, a small town near the Czech capital Prague. Perhaps because of the long-term living in the Gorky Automobile Factory, Seryozha has always had a soft spot for the automobile industry. In fact, measured by the industrial level, the overall quality of Soviet automobile products is still good. Durability is the biggest advantage of Soviet automobiles. You must know that after two thousand years, on the border between China and Mongolia, there are still old-fashioned GAZ vehicles transporting goods between the two countries, so Sergesha does not think that the Soviet Union's automobile industry has reached the point of no return .
However, whether it is the Gorky Automobile Factory, the Volga Automobile Factory, or the Likhachev Automobile Factory in Moscow is still in the hands of the state. According to Gorbachev's reform ideas, these three automobile companies will get more in the future. However, when the country's Planning Economic Commission issued a production plan, these factories still had to do their best to meet the needs of the country.
This also means that the state-owned enterprises in the Soviet Union will not only have to withstand the test of the market economy in the future, but also bear the burden of the planned economy. This is a typical dual-track system. In this case, although the factory managers have obtained a certain degree of production autonomy, they also bear a great burden, because they need to raise the capital and technology required for production by themselves. This is a typical example of wanting the horse to run fast while also wanting the horse not to eat grass.
Seriosha would bet that there are not many state-owned enterprises that can play well under the dual-track system. However, it is still a good opportunity, a good opportunity for Seryozha to inherit the legacy of the Soviet automobile industry.
A gap has been opened in the private economy in the Soviet Union. Which youth science and technology cultural center established by Sergey in the Communist Youth League will be the biggest beneficiary of this policy, but these small businesses have no energy for Sergey to follow. He's thinking about bigger issues. That is to find a suitable overseas auto industry group, control it through Blackstone, and then in turn acquire these car companies in Eastern Europe like Skoda and Gorky. The target that Seriosha valued was Volkswagen, a famous automobile group in the Federal Republic of Germany.
During the New Year's holiday, Sergey didn't want to be busy with work, but the Czech officials paid too much attention to him, the minister who came on vacation, so Sergey had to be busy with entertainment, but Sergey Sha still turned down all evening activities and concentrated on staying with his family.
Seryozha likes this kind of ordinary life. As early as a few years ago, because of Andropov's anti-corruption and other changes in the domestic environment, Seryozha sent his most beloved people to Switzerland. Because he was not sure whether he would be implicated in it, this was a last resort to protect himself, and it was also for this reason that Serezha never got married. Seryozha hopes that everything will return to normal after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
During Seryosha’s stay in the Czech Republic, he learned about the changes in the domestic situation through Yulia. This New Year’s holiday, Ligachev was not happy at all, and Gennady Jana, the top head of the national trade union system, Yev became the fire chief and flew to Donetsk,
Gorky and others went to quell the workers' protests there.
Because of the principle of openness, Gorbachev tied his hands and feet and could not prevent Yeltsin from expressing his views. In fact, what Yeltsin is most afraid of is the KGB and the Bureau of Internal Affairs, the violent organs of the Soviet Union. In order to prevent these two departments from jointly suppressing the petitions and protests of Moscow citizens, Yeltsin used his power to start a large-scale abolition of the KGB and the Internal Affairs Bureau in Moscow. department preparation.
The development of the matter was completely beyond Sergey's expectations, and now his Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation is considered safe for the time being. As long as no one knows that Seryozha is planning all this behind the scenes, then Ligachev will not push Seryozha to his opposite for the time being.
Just when Seryozha thought that the holiday would be peaceful forever, an unexpected guest made Yuri and Ivankov busy again.
The visiting guest was none other than Walesa, the leader of the Polish opposition. Now Yuri and Ivankov have regained their free identities, and the United States has lifted their arrest warrants. The main reason is that they are regarded as key members of the Vatican and the Polish opposition.
The Polish opposition was far less important to the Gorky Brotherhood than the Italian Mafia and Medellin Group, but Seryozha knew that they were the most promising. It should be just two years later that the communist regimes in Eastern Europe will fall one after another like dominoes. Among them, the communist regime in Poland was the first to fall.
"Dear Yuri, my comrades! I'm sorry to disturb you during the New Year, but I recently read some good news from the newspapers. I think maybe the opportunity of our solidarity union is coming." Wawensa looked forward to it Said a little nervously.
"Chairman Walesa, if you have anything to say, just say it, you are welcome between us!" Yuri guessed from the expression of Walesa, most likely he came to borrow money. Although the Solidarity trade union has a good reputation, it has been fighting the Polish government for eight years from 1979 to now. In the past eight years, the momentum of the Solidarity trade union has been worsening day by day. Under the joint suppression of Poland and the Soviet Union, this organization has reached the point where it can barely survive. Those countries are no longer supporting them, because they are not optimistic about the future development of the Solidarity trade union. Apart from the Pope in the Vatican, the only one who can help the Solidarity trade union is Seriosha's Gorky Brotherhood. But the Gorky Brotherhood was only using Solidarity. It never occurred to me to engage in activities against the Soviet government with them.
"Yuri, I heard from the newspapers that there is a strike in Donetsk in the USSR. I think this is an opportunity. So I would like to get some help from you to help us carry out another nationwide strike. We will let the Force the Polish government to accept our proposition." Wawensa pleaded with his scalp reflected, he felt that he was simply a beggar now, begging everywhere. Although she has won the Nobel Peace Prize, Lech Walesa's background as a hydropower worker made her not favored in the political circles in the West, but a strike meant that a large number of workers had no income. Without the support of the funder, she wanted to plan a A nationwide general strike in Poland is nothing short of a dream.