Chapter 276 The Soviet Economy Sees Improvement
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On December 31, 1990, it was less than 12 hours before the New Year's bell was ringing. On the construction site of the Tyumen Oilfield, tens of thousands of people gathered here waiting for a historic moment. Serezha wore a hard hat and stood quietly on the muddy and icy ground. Although the field work was freezing, everyone was full of excitement.
Not far away, several heavy cranes dropped a section of the pipeline into the air and then slowly moved to the last section of the Eurasian natural gas pipeline. The welders who have been waiting there have long been eager to try.
Although the cold wind in Siberia is fierce, it still cannot stop people's enthusiasm. The Eurasian natural gas pipeline project running through the east and west of the Soviet Union is about to be completed ahead of schedule. Hundreds of thousands of Soviet construction workers have struggled for half a year for this. Now media organizations across the Soviet Union are quietly waiting for this symbolic event. Almost everyone in the Soviet Union knows that once this natural gas pipeline is fully connected, it will bring much improvement to the Soviet economy in the future.
Just a few days ago, the three major international rating agencies raised the sovereign credit rating of the Soviet Union one after another. You must know that not long ago, four republics declared independence from the Soviet Union! However, political instability did not have any impact on the strong rebound of the Soviet economy. Since some regions want to withdraw from the Soviet Union, and the laws of the Soviet Union have clearly stipulated this, everything can proceed according to legal procedures. It's going to rain, my mother is going to get married, let him go. This kind of thing is no big deal to those who still love this country.
At the last meeting of the Politburo of the CPSU Central Committee, Seriosha and Ligachev’s Marxist-Leninist program faction had a frank communication with Yakovlev’s democratic program faction. After this discussion, It has re-established the future path of the Soviet Communist Party, which is to inherit and carry forward the socialist starting point theory put forward by General Secretary Andropov under the condition that the ideology of transformation has been abandoned. Concentrate all the work of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union on economic construction, and at the same time, in order to deal with the risk of the disintegration of the Soviet Union, strengthen the ties between the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and the party organizations of the republics. Even if the Soviet Union does split in the future, the CPSU cannot split.
At this meeting, both the Marxist-Leninist program represented by Ligachev and the democratic program of Yakovlev made certain concessions. Because the facts have proved that Ligachev's political ideas can no longer be realized, and Yakovlev's political ideas will make the CPSU face a split. Therefore, the theory of returning to the starting point is of great significance to the CPSU, because it means that the entire party of the CPSU has a real goal to strive for.
As part of the economic reform, Seriosha has begun to make drastic reforms to the domestic zombie enterprise Jinxing. In dealing with these enterprises that are heavily indebted and can no longer generate profits for the country, Seriosha chose to completely privatize, clean up and reorganize the property rights of these enterprises, and properly resettle the original employees through the funds raised through privatization .
The Soviet Union was originally a country with high welfare, medical care, education,
Housing is completely free. However, market-oriented reforms only focus on the industrial and agricultural production sectors. Even if future workers lose their jobs, these workers' livelihoods will not have any major problems. Seryosha dared not reform those industries that are related to domestic people's livelihood issues. Because if these industries are messed up by private capital, it will cause strong dissatisfaction among the people. After all, it’s nothing to drive without a car, but if you don’t have a house to live in, no food to feed yourself, and can’t afford to see a doctor or go to school, the people will overthrow the government. No.
When the final welding work was completed, the entire construction site resounded with a neat and loud "Ulla!" sound. The workers who have struggled for more than half a year embraced each other excitedly. In the most critical situation, the Soviet Union still insisted on building this natural gas pipeline known as the eighth wonder of the world. Just before this pipe runs through. Japan and South Korea in East Asia, Britain, France and Germany in Western Europe have signed new natural gas cooperation agreements with the Soviet Union, and the newly established Eastern European Unified Market Organization has also signed a 10-year cooperation agreement with the Soviet Union. Natural gas from the Soviet Union became the most stable source of energy in East Asia and Europe.
The construction army recruited by Seryozha will not cause large-scale unemployment due to the completion of the natural gas pipeline, because in fact, another oil pipeline that also connects Komsomolsk and Leningrad is about to start. In addition, the international oil pipeline connecting Kuwait to Syria contracted by the Soviet Union was also put on the agenda. In the energy infrastructure construction industry alone, the demand for labor is in short supply. Not to mention other industries in the Soviet Union.
The reversal of the economic environment finally made the reform of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union find the right direction. For the Soviet Union, energy and heavy industry are still the industries the Soviet Union is best at. The Soviets are not suitable for producing things that are directly oriented to the consumer market, such as gadgets such as electronic products that are popular in the world now. However, in the petrochemical industry, construction machinery industry, as well as oil exploration equipment, mining equipment, etc., the Soviet Union is still in a leading position in the world.
Out of the need to save government spending, the CPSU collectively decided to significantly reduce defense spending. The four new-generation aircraft carriers originally built in Ukrainian shipyards have been put on the international trading platform, and India, Brazil and other countries are very interested in this. Even China and Argentina got involved when the Soviets suggested that the four aircraft carriers could be purchased through barter rather than foreign exchange. This transaction model of the Soviet Union is an innovation all over the world, through the sale of high value-added industrial and military products in exchange for those low value-added agricultural products, resource products and primary industrial products. This can not only lower the threshold of transactions, but also exchange what is needed.
So at the beginning of 1991, the Soviet Union reached an agreement with India to exchange aircraft carriers for rice and tea, with Brazil for coffee and soybeans, with Argentina for beef, and with China for new international arms. trade. After the completion of these four transactions, the Soviet Union also exported these goods to Eastern Europe and other European countries while meeting its own needs. This incident opened up a new path for the Soviet Union’s arms trade. Some African countries and Latin American countries suddenly discovered that the threshold for purchasing weapons in the Soviet Union was not high. Things that used to require a lot of dollars to get, now only need their own minerals. And agricultural products are fine, which is too much trouble.
Under Sergey's control, the Soviet Union never defaulted on its debts from beginning to end, and the London Club of international creditors had agreed to a plan to convert most of the Soviet Union's bonds into investments. The biggest crisis in the Soviet economy was finally over.