Chapter 246 Visiting the Gorky Factory

Counting it, Seryozha hadn't been back to Gorky for several years. It wasn't that Seryozha didn't want to go back, but that he never had the time. Just after Seryozha finished the preliminary planning of the Komsomolsk Special Economic Zone, Seryozha asked Yulia to arrange a trip for her to inspect the Gorky Automobile Factory.

Seryozha is well aware that all industries in the Soviet Union are currently depressed, but there are three industries that can always generate stable income for the country and have strong market competitiveness. These three industries are military industry, resources industry, and automobile industry.

As early as a few years ago, by helping drug dealers in Latin America to launder money, Sergey accidentally opened up huge markets for the Soviet auto industry from Mexico to Colombia and Bolivia. Relying on the advantages of simple maintenance, durable operation and durable leather of Soviet cars, Soviet cars have gradually gained a firm foothold in the low-end car market in Latin America over the past few years. With the easing of relations between the Soviet Union and China, Soviet automobile products have also begun to be exported to China, which is the best development opportunity for the entire Soviet automobile industry. In the future, with the fall of the Iron Curtain, countries such as the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe will be impacted by the developed commodity economy from the West. The best opportunity for the development of the Soviet automobile industry was fleeting. Whether or not he could seize this opportunity to take the Soviet automobile industry to a higher level was the most concerned issue for Sergei.

When Seryozha returned to the Gorky Automobile Factory again, he was warmly welcomed by the workers. As a big man who went out of the Gorky Automobile Factory, Seryozha was well known in the entire Gorky Prefecture. Because of the fact that Seryozha has done a lot for the common people over the years, Seryozha has a very good reputation among the people.

But Seryozha didn't come here to strengthen friendship with everyone, he came here to find fault and give opinions. Seriosat specially seconded several experts in automobile production management from Volkswagen to accompany him to visit the Gorky Automobile Factory. With careful inspection along the way, Serezha discovered many problems. However, he did not directly raise these questions in front of everyone. He just listened with his ears and looked with his eyes without saying a word. When he encountered a problem he didn't understand, Sergesha would not ask questions like the person in charge of the Gower Machinery Factory. Instead, he humbly asked the German consultants behind him for advice.

"Minister Ulyanov, is it because we didn't do a good job?" Seeing Sergey's face all the way, the person in charge of the Gorky factory felt like a pain in his back. Over the past few years, the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation has given Gorky Factory a lot of benefits, not only helping them develop the Latin American and Chinese markets, but also helping them introduce powerful partners like Volkswagen. Relying on the joint venture car produced by Volkswagen, the Gorky Automobile Factory lived very well, but they also became inert because of this. During the visit just now, Sergei found that there were many problems in the Volga automobile production line and the GAZ automobile production line of the Gorky Plant. For example, the workers are undisciplined, the production efficiency is low, the quality of the products has dropped sharply, the utilization rate of raw materials is not high, and so on. This made Seryozha very angry.

Seryozha did not respond. He saw two workers working on the production line not far away. One of the older workers was doing his work seriously, while the younger worker seemed to be working hard. live, but his eyes drifted to Seryozha's side from time to time. Seeing this, Seryozha walked over unhurriedly.

"What are you doing?" Sergei asked suddenly as he walked to the two of them.

"Ah!" The older worker seemed to be very serious, and was taken aback by Sergey's sudden question, while the young worker had already noticed Sergey's arrival, and looked like Sergey from a long distance away. say hello.

Seryozha went up to them, shook hands with them, and asked their names. The older master worker was called Lavrinenko, and the younger one was called Kozhdub. Both are workers who install the car seats.

During the conversation between Seryozha and the two, someone had already stepped up to take over their jobs. This allowed Lavrinenko to finally answer Serezha's question with peace of mind. After Sergesha asked them about some of their work, they began to chat about the history of the Volga Automobile at the Gorky Plant.

"Comrade Lavrinenko, when did you come to work at the Gorky factory?"

"Me? It seems that I was here when the factory was first built. It was desolate at the beginning, and we had to live in tents in winter. The conditions at that time were really difficult!" Lavrinenko seriously recalled .

"Do you still remember the scene when you produced the first generation of Volga?" Seryozha asked again

"Of course I remember that we dedicated the car to Comrade Stalin, and later our car won a gold medal at the World Expo in Brussels. We were all so happy..." Lavrinenko said excitedly.

"Comrade Kozhdub, do you like Volga cars?" Seryozha suddenly asked the young worker.

"I like it, of course I like it, after all, we assembled it ourselves!"

"How about comparing it with Volkswagen's cars?"

"Well, Volga is still very good..." Kozhdub said somewhat cautiously.

"Tell the truth!" Seryozha smiled, encouraging Kozhidub to speak out his true thoughts.

"I still prefer the public!" Kozhdub replied honestly.

Everyone present heard the conversation between Seryozha and the two workers, and the leaders of the Gorky factory had already noticed that Seryozha was dissatisfied with the Gorky factory. But in the end that dissatisfaction, they still don't quite understand.

"Do you know why the first batch of cars produced by the Gorky factory won the gold medal at the International Industry Fair when it was first established, but after decades, our own workers look down on our products?" Sergey suddenly asked Gorky asked the factory managers.

"Our work is not done well, Secretary Ulyanov!" The person in charge of the Gorky factory quickly admitted his mistake.

"This is just one aspect, my comrade. You have to know how many countries could produce cars in 1935, but how many countries can produce cars now? The bottom line is that the environment has changed, but we have not changed. You Do you know the consequences of continuing like this? Sooner or later, our Volga will completely withdraw from the market. Comrades at the Gorky factory, don’t think that you can stop making progress because you are doing well with joint venture cars. I promise you those who are now Refrigerator factories, washing machine factories, and television factories that can’t pay wages all think so. They think that as long as the products are produced and the quality is good, everything will be fine. It is this kind of thinking that makes them lose their jobs. If you produce If the product doesn’t even like your own workers, then you are wasting resources and making garbage..."