Chapter 248 Carve up Poland

In the middle of last year, Lech Walesa was elected the first democratically elected prime minister of Poland. He is full of confidence in Poland under the leadership of Solidarity. He believes that he can lead Poland to completely get rid of years of bad governance and build a democratic and free Poland.

But when Walesa adopted a tough attitude towards the Soviet Union and expelled members of the Gorky Brotherhood within the Solidarity trade union, everything began to develop in an unmanageable direction. Although the Americans provided one billion U.S. dollars in financial support to the new Polish government, Lech Walesa made a treacherous betrayal of the promise he made to Seryozha. He not only restricted the Gorky Brotherhood's large-scale commercial acquisitions in Poland, but also completely offended the Soviet government. The Soviet government not only canceled a series of preferential policies for Poland, but also cut off trade with Poland. And the Gorky Brotherhood directly pulled out of the Polish market.

When all this happened, Walesa was very disapproving, because he believed that the Americans would not let Poland fend for itself, and American companies would flood into the Polish market like a flood, bringing a lot of jobs to the Poles. , and Poland's economy will take off like a rocket. But the facts slapped Walesa in the face severely. American companies are not flooding Poland, not even a single one. On the contrary, Leningrad, across the sea, has gathered a group of powerful European and American companies to settle here.

Although the economy has not improved, prices have taken off like a rocket. Due to the withdrawal of the Gorky Brotherhood, both Glencore and the Soviet Mediterranean Trading Company ceased commercial activities in Poland. The goods on the market began to get tighter and tighter. When Walesa was in power for half a year, the prices were even twice as high as before he was elected. What makes the Polish people even more dissatisfied is that because the Soviet Union interrupted the natural gas and energy trade with the Polish government, residents in most parts of Poland spent an unforgettable and heart-wrenching winter. Heating supply. Even the capital Warsaw is the same.

Successive mistakes in governance have made many Poles disappointed with Lech Walesa's ability to govern the country, but the prime minister was elected by himself. Unless Lech Walesa has any corruption problems, he will have to wait until the end of his term with tears in his eyes. Anyway, freedom of speech is now liberalized, and Walesa still refuses to resign as prime minister. So among the Polish people, people began to ridicule Walesa in the same way they ridiculed Jaruzelski, the first secretary of the Polish United Workers Party in the past.

This year if you catch a Pole on the street and ask him what song is trending lately. Most of them will be happy to sing you two new songs, and the streets will soon gather a crowd to sing along. One of these two songs is called "Wawensa, where did my 100 million yuan go?" ", and the other is called "You Never Trust an Electrician". It can be seen from the title of the song that these two songs are satirizing Walesa's poor governance skills.

These two songs quickly became popular throughout Poland, and sometimes even radio programs would play these two songs at the strong request of listeners. The people tried their best to use their ingenuity to disgust Walesa. Even when Walesa held a press conference, some reporters asked whether they knew these two songs. Walesa's expression at the time was so embarrassing as to die.

Political reform cannot fundamentally eliminate the difficulties facing the economy. Because economic problems must be solved by economic means. Leningrad, across the sea from Gdansk, Poland, is an excellent proof. Since the launch of the Leningrad Special Economic Zone project a year ago, hundreds of thousands of soldiers who had withdrawn from Afghanistan laid down their arms and became construction workers for the Leningrad Special Economic Zone. The Leningrad Special Economic Zone has a new look. Especially after the commissioning of the natural gas terminal and petrochemical projects in the Leningrad Special Economic Zone, more and more merchant ships sailed to and from the Baltic Sea route.

It is not that there are no understanders among the Poles. After they were completely disappointed with Walesa, they turned their attention to the model of the Leningrad Special Economic Zone. Speaking of it, the Solidarity trade union is not entirely a political party of the working class. It is actually more like a loose political alliance. In fact, the Solidarity trade union has many people from the intellectual class and religious circles. They quickly realized how much Walesa was capable of. As a result, within the Solidarity trade union, some opposition figures gradually appeared.

These people clearly recognized how unreliable the promise of the Americans was, and at the same time realized that Poland could not completely separate from the Soviet Union and the connection between the Gorky Brotherhood. When Walesa's support rate inside and outside the party began to record lows repeatedly, these opposition groups finally couldn't help but stand up and raised objections to Walesa's poor governance policy.

Faced with domestic high prices and tight supply, as well as industries shut down due to lack of energy. The Polish leadership had to reconsider its relationship with the Soviet Union and its attitude towards the Gorky Brotherhood.

So, under the repeated invitations of Solidarity and Lech Walesa, Yuri, who left the United States in anger, was invited back to Poland to participate in the reception and commemorative activities of the Polish government, and the Soviet Union also received goodwill from Poland through various channels Actions.

Seeing that Poland's attitude had softened, Seryozha no longer continued his blockade policy. He sent his confidant Nastya to Warsaw to make contact with the Polish government. On Yuri's side, there was also goodwill from Lech Walesa. After repeated weighing, in order not to let the Polish market fall into the hands of others, Seryozha finally changed his attitude towards Poland.

Poland's request was quickly conveyed to Seryozha. Perhaps the development of the Leningrad Special Economic Zone is too fast. They want to cooperate with the Leningrad Special Economic Zone and use the Leningrad Special Economic Zone to revive Poland's economy.

After all, Poland is a big country in Eastern Europe, and there are still some good things, such as the Polish FSO Automobile Company, which is famous for producing Polonaise, and the rich copper and zinc resources in Poland. urgently needed industrial raw materials. So when Wawensa changed his attitude, Seryozha no longer had the same knowledge as him.

So under Nastya's single-handed arrangement, Gorky Volkswagen quickly came forward to discuss with the Polish government the cooperation intention to acquire FSO Automobile Company. Seryozha intends to keep the Polonaise brand as a sub-brand of Volkswagen. In addition, Glencore and Mediterranean Trading Company have also resumed business relations with Poland. Glencore will acquire several large copper and zinc mines, and Mediterranean Trading Company will resume exporting natural gas and oil to Poland.

The impoverished Polish government did not look forward to the rescue of the Americans, but first looked forward to the partition of the Gorky Consortium.