Chapter 202 Legalization of the Solidarity Union

"Seryozha, Walesa has agreed to meet Jaruzelski. What shall we do next?" Yuri asked Sergesha on the other side of the phone.

"Yuri, this meeting is very important. If you can, I hope you can lead this negotiation. Let's not rush for success all at once, first let Solidarity obtain legal political status in Poland, and then let us install People in the Solidarity trade union will gradually enter the leadership, and then the Solidarity trade union will be our vassal and puppet in Poland..." Seryozha urged on the other side of the phone.

In the past few years, as the proportion of grain trade in Gorky's internal income has become more and more important, Gorky has arranged a group of personnel to work in the Solidarity Union, because the Solidarity Union has a serious dependence on the Gorky Brotherhood. Therefore, many of these people arranged by the Gorky Brotherhood in Poland occupy key positions within the Solidarity Union. But now that the Solidarity Trade Union is about to see the dawn of victory, the value of these people will naturally rise. Sergesha will not let these chess pieces go.

Most of the leaders of the Solidarity union like Walesa came from the bottom. So when Jaruzelski invited them to talk, they didn't know what to do. And Yuri had served as the lower-level leader of the Gorky Automobile Factory many years ago, and he had been doing business in Europe and the United States for many years. His vision and experience were definitely among the best in the Solidarity trade union, so these things were not difficult for Yuri at all.

The meeting place was agreed to be the headquarters of the Polish United Workers Party in the center of Warsaw, the capital of Poland. On the day of departure, it began to rain heavily. Yuri, Walesa and other leaders of the Solidarity trade union were escorted by the Polish military police to the party building of the United Workers Party. From a long distance, one after another, the military police guarded the street heavily. Except for the police cars that opened the way, few other vehicles were seen on the road.

"Yuri, what are you thinking now?" Wawensa sat next to Yuri's seat, and he kept adjusting his shirt and tie, almost without stopping along the way. Yuri kept looking at the scenery outside the car window without saying a word. After all, it was Yuri's first time as a power broker, so many things had to be dealt with when things came to an end. But Yuri has already begun to accept and gradually adapt to this kind of work.

As Seryozha said when he talked to them. The Gorky Brotherhood is now one of the largest consortia in the world. For this business, money is just a number for everyone. Seryozha can leave the Soviet Union now and spend the rest of his life comfortably incognito. But once he did so, he would become an enemy of the Soviet Union and be wanted globally by the Soviet government and even later the Russian government. This kind of life that can never live under the sun is definitely not what Serezha wants. Seryozha hopes that everyone can enjoy their ill-gotten wealth openly like those big European and American conglomerate families, so the core members of the Gorky Brotherhood will inevitably be exposed to politics in the future.

The reason why Seryozha took a fancy to Poland is mainly because there will be a vacuum of economic power in the future. The socialist system established by the United Workers Party is about to collapse, and the old capitalist consortiums of the West have not yet reclaimed this land. Apart from the oligarchs born in Poland, Seryozha didn't know who else could control the economic lifeline of the country, and those oligarchs who were still in their infancy in Poland were not as powerful as Seryozha's nine cows. Sergey could make them bankrupt with just a flick of his little finger. How could Sergey miss such a good opportunity so easily?

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Yuri and Walesa walked into the headquarters building of the Polish United Workers Party with apprehension. They entered the building through a special passage, except for the reception staff

, almost no one along the way. When they were finally led into a large conference room upstairs, as soon as they opened the door of the conference room, a row of high-ranking officials wearing the uniforms of Polish army generals sat opposite them.

Yuri quietly glanced at the people present, and he soon discovered that sitting in the middle was the Chairman of the Polish State Council and the Supreme Commander of the Polish Armed Forces, General Jaruzelski.

Seeing that everyone from the Solidarity Union came to the venue, Jaruzelski slowly got up from his seat, walked towards Walesa, shook hands with him politely, and then introduced to Walesa the participation Politburo members of the United Workers' Party of Poland at the meeting today.

And Walesa also learned to introduce the leaders of the Solidarity Union to Jaruzelski. The opening atmosphere was good, and everyone was consciously avoiding talking about some unpleasant topics. After some familiarization and pleasantries, the representatives of both sides took their positions, and then Jaruzelski and Walesa respectively read out the statement documents that had been drafted earlier that contained their respective political positions. Next, the two sides started the first topic of the meeting, which was the legal status of the Solidarity trade union.

Jaruzelski did not dwell too much on the issue of Solidarity's repeated strikes. He said sincerely to Walesa: "The struggle between us has lasted for so many years, which has had a great impact on the stability and unity of Poland, and has seriously torn the Polish society. Our Polish United Workers Party hopes to end the current situation. This situation of confrontation has brought Poland back on the right track, so we believe that as long as the Solidarity trade union guarantees that it will always be loyal to the Polish people and will not be manipulated by foreign capitalist forces, we are willing to make the Solidarity trade union legal in Poland. group……"

Walesa showed some agreement with Jaruzelski's speech. Jaruzelski, who is sitting opposite him now, looks humble, polite, sincere and kind, not at all like the dictator who announced that Poland would enter a state of emergency martial law in 1981. This time, the Polish United Workers Party led by Jaruzelski made great concessions, which made Walesa a little bit unbelievable to his ears.

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A week later, the Poles saw the front page photo of Walesa and Jaruzelski shaking hands in the newspaper early in the morning, and a news that shocked the whole world was announced. The Polish government announced that Solidarity would become a legal political organization in Poland. They will take part in the next year's Polish elections as independent political parties. Many Western political commentators were so shocked that their eyeballs almost fell out. The mood of the Soviet government who heard the news was very complicated. Gorbachev knew how serious this matter was and what happened in Hungary a few months ago. He urgently called Foreign Minister Shevardnadze together. Discuss countermeasures. )!!