Chapter 952 Post-Disaster Loan "Urgently Seeking Monthly Ticket Assistance"

A person who is both democratic and dictatorial. Under his rule, Russia's political situation was not good and the economy was in a mess, but he was able to be re-elected as president and ruled for eight years. Although he was critically ill many times, he always firmly grasped the power of the country. This is the Yeltsin phenomenon unique to Russia.

In a word, Yeltsin was unable to get the country out of trouble and out of the crisis. Five charges were listed against him when the president was impeached last year. Although he did not pass, he exceeded half of the votes in the parliament.

However, it was such a person who was able to rule for eight consecutive years, finally received the majority support in the presidential election, was re-elected as president, and despite being critically ill many times, he still firmly grasped the power of the country and defeated one opponent after another. This is indeed a rare phenomenon in Russian history.

Comparing with Gorbachev, people can see that in terms of economic situation, Yeltsin's era was much worse than Gorbachev's era. In terms of domestic political life, Yeltsin, as the head of state, was much more dictatorial than Gorbachev. In terms of ethnic policy, Yeltsin could not tolerate any ethnic division, while Gorbachev allowed one republic after another to become independent.

When people discuss the reasons for Gorbachev's failure, they often blame it on his poor economic development, insufficient democracy, and improper handling of ethnic issues. So why can Yeltsin, who was worse than Gorbachev, continue to support it?

Yeltsin had a strong personality, dared to take risks, and dared to take risks and make strange moves. During his eight years in power, he continued to succeed on the road of adventure. A person's character plays a certain role in history. People can say that Gorbachev's indecision and hesitation were one of the reasons for the failure of his reform.

However, a strong character alone is obviously not enough to guarantee the success of reform, and a more convincing explanation should be sought.

In order to answer this question, it is necessary to look at the system established by Yeltsin, the forces he relied on, his allies, the slogans and measures he used to attract voters, the state of his opponents, and so on.

The regime and political system established by Yeltsin is a transitional system. The source of this regime is the Soviet regime. Such a regime inevitably has quite a lot of shadows and remnants of the old era, and its overall structure has obvious marks of the Soviet era.

The super presidential system replaced the general secretary system, but the system in which the general secretary has the final say still exists. The Politburo no longer exists, but people can feel the shadow of the Politburo everywhere in the Presidential Office. The government and the Soviets obey the command of the Politburo and the general secretary, which can still be seen everywhere in the relationship between Yeltsin's government and the Duma and the president. The operating mechanism on which Yeltsin's rule relies has not deviated from the old one.

Russia implements a super presidential system, in which the president has unlimited power and the entire regime is a structure centered on the president, which forces the executive, legislative and judicial branches to obey the will of the president.

The existence of this system in Russia has its reasonable basis. In the era of great social changes, a strong iron-fisted person is needed, otherwise nothing will be accomplished. But relying on one person to manage the country, especially a big country like Russia, is obviously not feasible in the long run, because power needs to be restricted.

Economic privatization destroyed the Soviet state ownership, thus completely destroying the foundation of the Soviet Union. Privatization also caused serious polarization in society. The living standards of nearly half of the residents are below the poverty line. At the same time, a group of new nouveau riche and billionaires were created. The middle class began to appear in Russia. The new bureaucratic comprador class and the middle class are the class basis for the existence of Yeltsin's regime.

But after Putin came to power, the Yeltsin phenomenon will end. The Yeltsin system cannot continue intact. The power of the president will be reduced. The parliamentary democracy, market economy, federalism, and the policy of a strong country with separation of powers are waiting to continue and be gradually improved.

Since Putin came to power, Russia's economy is still in a mess, but compared with the previous situation, there have been good changes. In fact, the turning point of economic recovery appeared in the second half of 1996. Although it was interrupted by the global financial crisis, it resumed in the second half of the year before last, and the upward trend last year was quite obvious.

After taking over, Putin certainly further promoted the economic revival, but more importantly, he was very lucky. He not only caught the ride of the general experience of transition countries, but also happened to encounter the rise in international oil prices. The effect of the devaluation of the ruble on promoting exports after the 1997 crisis also began to show.

To be honest, Putin is a good hand in politics, but Fan Wubing does not think much of his economic insights.

Putin's prime minister is good at economic management, but from now on, the relationship between the two is not good, and there is a possibility that they will go their separate ways or become mortal enemies.

Fan Wubing also considered that with Putin's character, he obviously could not tolerate the current situation of two masters in the country for one or two days. Yeltsin's totalitarianism had a greater impact on him, and the economic turmoil in the Yeltsin era also made Putin intend to strengthen his control over state-owned enterprises to reduce the influence of financial oligarchs on the rival regime.

How can you let others sleep soundly while you are sleeping on your bed?

Putin now needs Fan Wubing's strong financial support, so that he can boldly take action against domestic financial oligarchs, especially those who covet his regime, and suppress them.

After more than ten years of development, these financial oligarchs have owned an astonishing amount of wealth across Russia. Without the support of large sums of money, it would be difficult for Putin to successfully conquer them by relying on the power of the state. But the reason why he did not consider turning to the West The second is to borrow money from the state to complete this matter. The second is to borrow private money from Fan Wubing. The important thing is that the transaction with Fan Wubing is a purely commercial interest exchange without any political demands. If it is a loan from a Western country, it will be very difficult for me. It is easy to get elbowed, and it is difficult to predict what will happen in the future.

To put it simply, during the Yeltsin era, a large number of financial oligarchs were fattened. After these people had Zai, they really regarded themselves as emperors. After Putin took over, he felt that these fat sheep had forgotten what their duties were, and he wanted to lift them up. It was time to kill the pigs and slaughter the sheep, but someone needed to deal with the aftermath of the slaughter, so they turned to Yu Fan Wubing, a wealthy man.

"Then, I am willing to abstain from your Excellency, President, to accomplish this feat." After thinking about it for a while, Fan Wubing felt that the profits contained here are indeed very large. Russia is not comparable to a small country like Indonesia. The source of expenses here can be It is heart-pounding. Although it is impossible for Putin to betray his country, equal exchange can be done, especially in terms of oil and gas field resources. It is really tempting.

After hearing that Fan Wubing agreed to this matter, Putin was very happy and asked, "When can the account be received? I hope it will be as soon as possible!"

"President, with all due respect, your economic skills are not as good as your political skills. If you want to achieve the best results at the lowest cost, it is better to use a dedicated business team." Fan Wu Bing suggested to Putin, "Our company now has a professional financial management team that is good at financial conspiracy, especially calculations for extremely large enterprise groups. If you have needs in this regard, I can give you a 20% discount on the service fee. Guaranteeing value for money and using the minimum cost to bankrupt the other party’s company, what do you think?”

After listening to Fan Wubing's introduction, Putin was stunned for a long time. He didn't expect that there was such a type of financial service in the world. He had only said that Fan Wubing was a super giant in the financial world, but he didn't know that they actually considered it. Companies that plot against others have also joined the fee-for-service type and sold it to the outside world.

"Would anyone be interested in this kind of business?" After a long pause, Putin asked.

"It is very popular, and our manpower is also very tight." Fan Wubing replied with a smile, "In fact, this kind of business requires relatively high quality of personnel, high integrity requirements, and the demand is huge. We Usually only regular customers.”

Putin wanted to reject it outright. But then I thought about it, and it seemed that my financial opponents were really not easy to deal with, so I changed my mind and said, "Okay, if necessary, I will contact you as soon as possible."

In terms of resource cooperation, Putin seemed more generous, and the conditions proposed by Fan Wubing were not outrageous, so an agreement was quickly reached. However, when it came to the transfer of large aircraft engine technology, he seemed more hesitant, and it was difficult to do so for a while. Forming a consensus obviously involves a technical threshold issue.

Because Putin knows that once the Chinese master the key technology of large aircraft engines, the overall space power will be greatly improved. This is something he does not want to see. After all, there are territorial disputes between China and Russia, and there are also considerable disputes. The long border. Once China's military strength increases beyond Russia's expectations, it will bring greater national defense pressure to Russia.

Regarding this point, Fan Wubing said: "The main tone of today's world is peaceful development. The Chinese have been fighting wars for more than a hundred years and are unwilling to fight again. Besides, you have so many advanced nuclear weapons, and you still need to worry about us." What?"

Putin hesitated for a long time. Haven't decided yet. Later, Fan Wubing said to him: "My wife has invited two daughters to visit China. In view of the current situation, it will be safer for them to stay in China. If the President is willing to transfer the engine technology, the two daughters can stay in China." If they stay in China for a longer period of time, I will teach them how to start a business and run their own business empire while studying in China. What do you think of this proposal?”

Hearing this, Putin was immediately startled, and his look at Fan Wubing became even more strange.