Chapter 296: A New Alliance (The Finale)

December 25th is the statutory Christmas in the West. On Christmas Day in 1991, the governments of the Western camps received a big gift. The acting president of the Soviet Union, Ulyanov, left the Kremlin in a car. Before leaving he announced the transfer of all powers to Yeltsin, Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the Russian Republic.

Hundreds of thousands of people on Moscow's Red Square witnessed the lowering of the red flag flying over the Kremlin. Many elderly Soviet people shed tears of sadness. But no one at the scene attributed this responsibility to Ulyanov, the acting president of the Soviet Union.

Seryozha resigned from all his public offices, retaining only the post of General Secretary of the CPSU. Because of the historical problems of the Soviet Communist Party, although the Soviet Union has disintegrated, the Communist Party organizations in each republic have been completely preserved.

After the New Year's Day holiday in 1992, the global capital market ushered in the first trading day of the new year. Because of the disintegration of the Soviet Union, the dollar ushered in the biggest positive in history. At this time, the long-planned international hot money launched a menacing currency war against the currencies of Western European countries.

On January 2, 1992, the Greek drachma fell below the minimum exchange rate stipulated by the European linked exchange rate within an hour. After the Greek central bank sought help from other countries in the European Community but failed, the Greek government reluctantly announced its withdrawal from Europe. Contact the exchange rate mechanism. Then the next day, January 3, 1992, the Greek drachma fell 30% against the dollar in a week. Greece became the first country in Europe to be torn apart by international hot money.

In the second week that followed, on January 6, 1992, Portugal’s Escudo followed in the footsteps of Greece’s Deramac and was hit hard by international hot money. The Portuguese Central Bank also did not wait for the assistance of the central banks of other EC countries. The Portuguese escudo was sold by hot money and broke the bottom line of the European linked exchange rate, and the Central Bank of Portugal was forced to announce the abandonment of the European linked exchange rate. Immediately afterwards, on January 7, 1992, the Portuguese escudo fell by 10 percent against the US dollar in a single day.

On January 6, 1992, the Luxembourg franc and the Belgian franc were attacked on the same day. After accepting the requests of the Luxembourg central bank and the Belgian central bank, the French government provided a large amount of real money to support the two central banks to stabilize the exchange rate. In the next two weeks, international hot money and the French Central Bank conducted a thrilling exchange rate war. In the end, the French central bank lost its pawn under the crazy attack of international hot money. Dropped support for Luxembourg and Belgium.

In the following months, from Denmark to the Netherlands, from Spain to France, and from the United Kingdom to Germany, they were all attacked by international hot money to varying degrees. The Netherlands and Spain successively abandoned the European peg. The United Kingdom and France, for the sake of the face of the European powers, persisted to the end, and finally ended with the sudden collapse of the pound franc, the central banks of the United Kingdom and France abandoned the European peg, and the general resignations of the cabinets of the British and French governments. After paying a huge price, Germany finally kept its position as the number one brother of the European economy.

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Attacking the European peg once again doubled the power of Seryozha's consortium. At this moment, Seryozha already has the capital and strength to do whatever he wants. Before the Western countries had time to be happy, a series of news began to make the entire Western group restless.

Just half a year after the disintegration of the Soviet Union, the three Baltic countries took the lead in joining the European single market organization. Immediately afterwards, the Ukrainian government and the Belarusian government also expressed their intention to join the unified market.

In the first general election of the founding of the Russian Republic, Yeltsin, the successor designated by Sergey, won the final victory, and then the Russian Communist Party represented by Yeltsin took joining the unified market as its policy program.

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In September 1992, Sergei, who had been at home for many days, unexpectedly represented Russia, which had just joined the unified market organization, and was elected the second chairman of the unified market. Sergey then renamed the Union of Independent States by the Unified Market Organization.

Just over a week after Seryozha took office in the unified market, Syria and Iraq submitted applications to the League of Independent States. Immediately afterwards, other republics in the former Soviet Union joined the Union of Independent States one after another. When 1992 was coming to an end, the Alliance of Independent States had become a powerful international organization that spanned Eurasia, inherited all the spheres of influence of the original Soviet Union, and extended its tentacles to the Arab region. Although the countries of the Alliance of Independent States have independent diplomacy and military, they do not have the right to issue currency, and people from these countries can come and go freely. From this point of view, the Union of Independent States should actually be regarded as a country economically.

At the first plenary meeting of the League of Independent States at the end of the year, Seriosha proposed the idea of ​​creating a unified constitution and laws within the League and gradually establishing a joint army of the League of Independent States. According to these assumptions, the future League of Independent States will move in a more integrated direction.

However, shortly after this meeting, Sergey resigned as the chairman of the Alliance of Independent States, and his successor was the former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. Seryozha, who was originally expected to be high, completely withdrew from the world political stage since then.

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With Seryozha no longer involved in politics, his life finally calmed down, and the public was initially interested in the reasons for Seryozha's resignation and his future plans. But time eventually made them forget everything. A few years later, Seryozha regained public attention with a story in a British tabloid. Someone saw the photo of Eva, the richest man in the world and the founder of Iridium Star, shopping with Sergei with her pregnant belly. However, neither party responded to this.

Later, the British media successively released photos of Seryozha and Karim being intimate on a luxury yacht in the Mediterranean Sea and photos of Seryozha and the wealthy woman of Mediterranean Shipping Group walking the streets hand in hand.

After several years of development, with the steady increase in the economic strength of the Alliance of Independent States, some countries in the Western camp have also developed a strong interest in the Alliance of Independent States. Turkey and Greece first applied to the League of Independent States for membership. Since then, under the leadership of Gorbachev, the Alliance of Independent States has officially taken its first step westward.

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In 2008, with the outbreak of the subprime mortgage crisis in the United States, the Gorky Group took over the heavily indebted Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers, and took over two of the five largest investment banks in the United States in one fell swoop, thereby winning the opportunity to become a shareholder of the Federal Reserve. From then on, the Gorky Financial Group finally completed its ultimate goal-manipulating the issuance of U.S. dollars.