Chapter 238 The Road to the Baltic Sea
When the storm came, everyone tried every means and means to survive. The same is true for banks. When a large amount of non-performing loans suddenly appear in the banking system, the first thing they want to abandon is their customers. They dissolve on sunny days and take up umbrellas on rainy days. The ruthlessness of banks is vividly displayed at this moment.
The loans of those big companies are better. They are the customers that the bank will always strive for. Unless they are in a desperate situation like the Seibu Group, otherwise, the bank will never fall out with such a company. The most unlucky ones are actually those small and medium-sized enterprises that Japan is proud of. They are the first customers in the banking industry to turn their faces.
In the past few years, Japan’s real estate and stock market have taken the lead in the world, and many people have been dazzled by the fast money brought by the stock market. Many well-developed small and medium-sized enterprises have even given up their own businesses and started to speculate in land and stocks. With the help of the east wind of Japan's economic take-off, they naturally made a lot of money. So everyone became more and more courageous, and many people began to try their best to use various methods to borrow funds, because according to the current rising speed of the property market and stock market, even if they borrow usury for investment, they can make a lot of money. Such a desperate investment of all his wealth.
But the change of face of the bank made these people fall from hell to the bottom all of a sudden. No one thought that the ebb tide would come so quickly. When the bank took its own customer list and notified its loan customers to cancel the contract one by one, people couldn't believe it was true. How can I afford a house without the support of the bank. Even the white-collar workers of some big trading companies cannot afford the housing prices in Tokyo. Not to mention the ordinary people whose income is in the middle and lower classes, many of them even borrow money from financial companies for their down payment.
Japan's National Assembly is still fighting for power and profit, and even the TV has broadcast several times the scenes of members performing all-out martial arts in the sacred National Assembly. In the Japanese securities market, those unknown hot money from all over the world are frantically shorting Japanese bank stocks. The decline in bank stocks has even triggered a decline in other Japanese industry stocks. Just a few months ago, there was a boom Those star stocks are now pressed on the limit board almost every day when the market opens, and they cannot be sold at all.
In the society, news about some people who lost their real estate due to bank duress and finally went to a dead end also began to appear in the newspapers frequently. Unexpectedly, in the first year after entering the Heisei period, the entire Japanese society fell into chaos from top to bottom.
Although there are some unpredictable and prophetic elements in it, Sergei still feels a sense of accomplishment. The plan to carve up Japan has finally come to fruition. The rich chaebols started a life-and-death contest. All the shady funds hidden in Switzerland, Panama and other places all over the world for many years jumped out at this moment. While taking advantage of the bursting of the Japanese bubble, they were also fighting for a legal identity for themselves.
Now that the overall situation has been decided, Seryozha can finally breathe a sigh of relief. Even if all those Western fools have withdrawn their funds, the Leningrad Special Economic Zone can continue to be built. However, although its own problems have been solved, the internal and external political environment of the Soviet Union is still not optimistic.
Just when Seryozha was concentrating on the Japanese plan, Poland held the first general election after national reconciliation. In this election, Walesa actually defeated Yalu, who promoted the round table meeting to successfully solve the Solidarity issue. Zeelski became the first non-Communist Prime Minister of Poland after World War II. Originally, Seryozha should be happy for Wawensa, but the all-pervasive Americans actually contacted Wawensa through the Holy See,
Promised to carry out a series of economic aid to Poland, under the material temptation of the United States, the Gorky Brotherhood, which has been supporting the Solidarity Union all these years, was abandoned. At this moment, Seryozha also experienced the ungrateful and ruthless side of the Poles. The series of benefits that Walesa promised to the Gorky Brotherhood at the beginning are now all counted. Close comrades become strangers who maintain a friendly face.
Poland is on the border of the Soviet Union. Facing Poland, which the Americans are temporarily unable to control, the torrent of steel from the Soviet Union only needs to cross the border a little and walk around the land of Poland. But Gorbachev did not have the courage, he chose to give Poland freedom. This is simply to let those communist comrades in Eastern Europe fend for themselves.
In fact, Gorbachev doesn't blame him for not caring about Poland, because now the Soviet Union has to face a bigger trouble. That is, the party organizations in the three Baltic countries openly expressed their desire for independence to the central government.
Yakovlev's openness policy made the ethnic minorities in the Soviet Union begin to re-examine their own history, and after Gorbachev came to power, he has been unable to effectively manage local power, which has also provided the ground for the rise of separatism in some ethnic minority areas . The first secretaries of the party committees of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania are all locals. They are very dissatisfied with the rising number of Russian immigrants and the Soviet Union's national integration policy. So just before the bloodshed in Georgia, when the Georgian opposition was at its worst, the expulsion of Russian citizens in Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania also began to heat up.
However, Georgia's counter-insurgency actions had a great deterrent effect on the separatists in the three Baltic countries. Therefore, they gave up the idea of directly confronting the government and instead adopted a peaceful strategy to express their will for independence. So some nationalists proposed to hold the Baltic Road protest.
The so-called Baltic Road is that people hold hands and connect the capitals of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania in the form of a human chain. People coordinated in various ways and at four o'clock in the afternoon, everyone joined hands for a fifteen-minute protest. During the entire event, no one went on hunger strike, and no one sat in to demonstrate. Everyone just held hands and sang patriotic songs. But Seryozha saw it very clearly, this is clearly the color revolution that Americans like most, this kind of protest and demonstration is almost harmless, and the cost of participation is extremely low. But the international impact it caused was not small. After Georgia's lesson, neither Sergeusa nor Gorbachev dared to use force rashly anymore, but Sergey was still extremely disappointed with Gorbachev, and now Sergey really felt that he should Let Yeltsin return to politics earlier.