Chapter 211 Leningrad Special Economic Zone

According to the course of history, there are still three years before the Soviet Union will become a historical symbol. However, whether there will be a butterfly effect during this period is totally unpredictable for Sergey, but now Sergey can no longer turn back, once his embezzlement of the Soviet Union’s trillions of assets is exposed, even shooting him ten times will not be enough to appease the Soviet people of resentment. But now that he has embarked on this path, Serezha simply does not do anything, and simply plays with a bigger one.

Judging from Sergey Sha's many years of experience as an official, if he wants to put the country's money into his own pocket logically, he must continuously manage and plan various projects and use the country's finances under various names. Only when the state's money is put into circulation and enters the field of circulation can Seryosha have a chance to make a move. The highest state of corruption does not lie in how much money you take that does not belong to you, but when you try your best to embezzle the wealth of the people of the whole country, the people of this country are still thanking you.

When Seryozha and his subordinate officials visited the resettlement work of the withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan, what greeted him was not complaints and dissatisfaction. Instead, flowers and applause. The emergence of board-built houses did indeed allow these young people who returned from the battlefield to have tiles to cover their heads in a very short period of time, so that they would not be homeless in the severe winter of Siberia. At the same time, these young people are extremely grateful for the jobs provided by Sergei. Now the unemployment rate in the Soviet Union has repeatedly hit new highs, and the state finances can no longer afford the inefficient production and operation mode of the entire country. Although there is no such thing as unemployment in the national system of the Soviet Union, one after another state-owned factories have begun to stop operations, and workers can only take indefinite vacations at home. This is actually unemployment in fact. Many of these people are three generations of grandparents. The whole family works in the same unit, and the shutdown of the factory means that they can only receive less than half of their previous income from the factory, and the price level in the Soviet Union is no longer what it used to be.

Those returning home soon learned that life back home might not be as easy as it was in Afghanistan. Practical issues such as housing and work were suddenly placed in front of them. In contrast, board-built houses are not so bad.

Gorbachev's current reforms are completely out of order, and the domestic economy is simply in disarray. On the contrary, the joint ventures introduced by Sergey Sharif at the beginning developed fairly prosperously in the Soviet Union. So now Gorbachev is starting to rely heavily on Sergey again. In order to encourage Seryozha to introduce more foreign funds to help the Soviet Union develop its economy, on the one hand, Gorbachev worked hard to improve relations with Western countries, and on the other hand, he relaxed restrictions on foreign investment and encouraged foreign companies to come to the Soviet Union. Come.

Gorbachev asked Sergey to do everything possible to introduce foreign capital to the Soviet Union. And Seryozha also felt that this was a great opportunity. Sergey's current assets are roughly estimated to be close to 4 trillion U.S. dollars, but Sergey's financing ability is simply not comparable to that of established consortiums such as Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley. After all, credit for hundreds of years is not so easy to establish. But what the financial war fights is capital, and the dollar is the bullet. And once a war starts, it doesn't matter whether the weapons are borrowed or bought. Financing ability will determine the success or failure of a consortium. The financial sector has always been winner-take-all. Super consortiums such as Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley have grown step by step on the corpses of their peers.

Gorbachev asked Seryozha to focus on attracting investment, but Seryozha thought why not make good use of this opportunity and make good money for him in the end? During this period of time, Seryozha has been calculating how much property the Soviet Central Bank still has. However, after careful consideration, Sergey gave up his plan to move the Central Bank of the Soviet Union, because Sergey now has a better plan. Can bypass the Central Bank of the USSR to earn more foreign exchange.

Seryozha's plan was to borrow money from foreign investors on the credit of the Soviet state. Let the national reputation of the Soviet Union help the Gorky Group win more funds, no matter how strong the reputation of Goldman Sachs is,

The credit of the Soviet regime is not as strong. After all, the sovereign credit of the Soviet Union has always been very good, and there has been no debt default. But when the Soviet Union finally disintegrates, this debt will become an unclear account among the republics of the Soviet Union, and it is not Seryozha's concern to whom this debt will fall on in the end. In any case, the money would be safely in Seryozha's pocket in the end.

Now that the debt situation of the Soviet Union is not particularly bad, it is a good time to start. After deciding on the plan, Seryozha submitted an application for a visit to his superiors. After all, the world's financial center is not in the Soviet Union. If you want to sell the Soviet Union's national debt to foreign investors, you have to go to London.

So Seryozha summoned his staff overnight to formulate a national investment plan with a total investment of 500 billion U.S. dollars and hand it over to the Kremlin. The plan was brought to the Politburo by Gorbachev for discussion. After repeated discussions by the Soviet Union's highest decision-making body, the plan was finally passed with only one vote. Seryozha explained to Gorbachev that the funds were for the creation of the Soviet Union's first special economic zone in Leningrad. Because Leningrad is located on the Baltic Sea and is very close to the three Nordic countries and Germany, Seryozha intends to use this special economic zone as a window for the Soviet Union's economic reform, just like the Chinese did a few years ago. At that time, the Leningrad Special Zone can attract investors from Western Europe, especially Germany, and can also accumulate experience for the reform of the Soviet Union. What surprised Seryosha was that this time Ligachev also voted for it.

So at this meeting of the Politburo, the first special economic zone in the Soviet Union, the Leningrad Special Economic Zone, became the national strategy of the Soviet Union. A master plan is also on the agenda. Naturally, Seryozha was obliged to serve as Secretary of the Party Committee of the Leningrad Special Economic Zone, and Seryozha did not forget to use this opportunity to push his secretary Nastya for many years to the position of the chief executive of the Leningrad Special Economic Zone.

Just after the Leningrad Special Economic Zone was announced to the public, Seryozha boarded a plane and went to London to issue the Soviet Union's national debt, while Nastya was in charge of dispatching personnel from the Communist Youth League system and the Soviet Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation to Leningrad for the implementation. Preparations for Special Economic Zones. Nastya was not polite to Serezha, he directly wanted to leave Goldman and Pugachev, who had grown up rapidly in the Workers' New Town project and had become Serezha's capable men. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for the ruling party. After getting the consent of Seryozha, Goldman, Pugachev and Nastya went to Leningrad together to make a plan for the Leningrad Special Economic Zone. Work together with new cities in the world.