Chapter 151 Restarting the Cotton Case

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In order to get Monsanto's genetically modified products on the market as soon as possible, Karim spared no expense to provide various attractive services, such as free aircraft spraying operations, and promotional means such as free agricultural insurance. Monsanto's genetically modified seeds are unique in the world today, and it has formed its own technical barriers. If any other company wants to enter this field, it must not use the gene fragments registered by Monsanto. This gene fragment comes from the only grass plant that Roundup herbicide cannot kill, petunia. In other words, other seeds cannot use petunia gene fragments to develop genetically modified products resistant to herbicides.

Because it is a product recommended by the Farmers Association, the price is cheap and the service is considerate, so many farmers have signed contracts with Monsanto. With the assistance of Griffith, Monsanto instantly occupied 30 markets in South Dakota, winning the first good start since its listing.

Until now, Monsanto's molecular biology breeding division has not been profitable. However, this does not affect the importance Seryosha attaches to this department. Under Seryozha's proposition, Karim further increased his support for the Molecular Biology Laboratory. Start to conduct genetically modified research on all vegetables, fruits, and even commercial crops on the market, in order to enrich the content of the product line and expand the company's profit points.

Seryozha found a new piece of land near the Gorky Automobile Factory as a construction site for a joint venture with the Volkswagen Group. He used his management experience and connections in the construction of the Workers’ New City to find a suitable construction unit. It is a national key project with sufficient funds. So it quickly entered the construction phase. In order to facilitate the control of this automobile factory, Seriosha selected some people he trusted from the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation of the Communist Youth League and the Gorky Automobile Factory to arrange for this automobile factory. Because Seryozha did not really plan to hand over this automobile factory to the Soviet government, but wanted to transform the current automobile product line in the Soviet Union to better occupy the Latin American market.

Since Churbanov returned to Moscow, the judicial organs of the Soviet Union have not come to the door again. Although Sochi is high in the mountains and the emperor is far away, Moscow is a place where dignitaries gather. If Ligachev wants prosecutors to search Churbanov's residence would have a bad influence, and the old officials who were left behind by Brezhnev would not agree. So Moscow is much safer than Sochi, at least Ligachev dare not let the prosecutors really take Churbanov away.

But those local officials who did not live in Moscow had bad luck and became Ligachev's punching bag in Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Georgia and other places. With the in-depth investigation of the judiciary, a series of corruption cases were reported to Ligachev. This time, under the guidance of the principle of openness, basically whenever Ligachev was investigated and dealt with, the newspaper would publish one. And because of the same principle of openness, reports on the past leaders of the Soviet Union also began to show a tendency to be mainly critical. Gorbachev and Yakovlev did not have the guts to criticize Lenin, but the media did not take into account the mistakes and faults of Stalin, Khrushchev, Brezhnev and other leaders during their ruling period. Criticism, such as Stalin's ethnic policy, Khrushchev's great power chauvinism, and Brezhnev's connivance of corruption. This has shaken the image of these leaders who were originally high in the hearts of the common people.

Both Gorbachev and Yakovlev thought this was a good thing, but these public reports aroused the dissatisfaction of some ethnic groups in the Soviet Union, such as the three Baltic states, who were against Stalin's annexation of the three countries during World War II. In the past, due to propaganda reasons, most ordinary people did not know about it, but once this matter was discussed publicly, it would be tantamount to detonating a nuclear bomb on the Estonian Latvian-Lithuanian ethnic issue .

But none of these can be compared with the impact of the Chechnya issue. You know, Stalin exiled most of the Chechens and Ingush to Central Asia. Now this wound has been opened again. Those Chechens and Ingush who have settled down in Central Asia have asked to return to their hometown.

Yakovlev's policy awakened the weakened national consciousness in the Soviet Union, and many ethnic minorities began to care about when their nation was incorporated into the territory of the Soviet Union. This inevitably involves the cruel history of the early Soviet Union and even Tsarist Russia. Since Gorbachev no longer restricted the people's right to associate, some groups studying ethnic issues began to be established in these areas, such as the historical research associations of the three Baltic countries, the historical research associations in Chechnya, and the Georgian historical research associations. They are mainly studying their past history independently of the traditional Soviet history, which means that the history of these nations is no longer part of the entire history of the Soviet Union, but an independent history separated from the history of Tsarist Russia and the Soviet Union.

Ligachev, a conservative, was angry with Yakovlev for discussing the mistakes of leaders such as Stalin and Brezhnev. He believed that this would hurt the authority of the party among the people, but with the support of Gorbachev , Yakovlev has become a new generation of gray cardinals, and the ideological field has been separated from the remit of the Secretariat. As an intellectual who has lived in Europe and the United States for ten years, Yakovlev has always felt that there are big problems in the economic policies of Lenin and Stalin, and he always wants to change and create a new set of theories.

Seryozha has been watching this struggle in the ideological field. He feels that this discussion has begun to develop in an uncontrollable direction. The elites of various ethnic groups in the newspapers have denounced the chauvinism and invasion and expansion of Tsarist Russia and Russians. This made the vast majority of Russian elites feel very angry. They began to discuss the various restrictions imposed on Russians after the establishment of the Soviet Union, such as unfair treatment in terms of party membership, employment, and education. Some Russian economic experts even believe that it was because the government invested too much in ethnic minority areas that caused problems in the Soviet Union's economy.

Just when the discussions in the newspapers were getting more and more heated, the Uzbek cotton case became the first case that Ligachev took out. Dozens of local officials in charge of Uzbek cotton affairs were escorted back to Moscow by Ligachev's men for investigation. ...