Chapter 744
Australasian national day activities have become more and more low-key. There are no major events and rarely grand military parades.
After all, the country's strength has been established by previous wars. With the current status of Australasia, there is no need to use some military parades to strengthen its prestige and status.
As time enters 1930, there are still some points worth paying attention to in the government's annual report meeting.
First of all, the population that Arthur pays more attention to has expanded to more than 37.55 million people.
At present, Australasia can be said to be the only country whose population has grown significantly during the economic crisis.
In terms of economy, Australasia's GDP reached a record high of 6.7 billion Australian dollars last year, and its annual fiscal revenue reached a new high of 7.5 billion Australian dollars.
However, this is largely due to the depreciation of the Australian dollar. Although it seems that the economic scale has grown a lot, the actual change is not as big as imagined.
Current currency exchange rate: 1 pound = 2 Australian dollars = 24 US dollars (Great Lakes region) = 147 rupees = 244 francs = 135,555 marks (estimated value)
It is worth mentioning that the currencies of the United States occupied by Britain, France and Australia have gradually been transformed into corresponding pounds, francs and Australian dollars.
However, the US dollar is still popular in the Great Lakes region, but it has also entered a considerable depreciation stage.
In the reparations that the Great Lakes Federal Republic is about to pay, the countries have stated that they will not agree to pay in US dollars, and will use industrial products, food and mineral resources with more stable economic value, as well as more valuable gold to repay.
From the currency exchange rate, it can be seen that the only relatively strong currencies at present are the British pound, the Australian dollar and the franc, and the depreciation of other currencies is quite serious.
Because of the high degree of binding with the British pound, coupled with the sphere of influence of Australasia itself, the Australian dollar has also become one of the most popular world currencies.
In order to prevent the influence of the British pound from becoming higher, some countries will also switch to using the Australian dollar for settlement instead of the British pound, which is not much different from the Australian dollar.
This can also explain a problem. Under the premise that the British are becoming more and more powerful, Australasia has involuntarily come to the opposition of the British.
Unless Arthur is willing to give up everything and be willing to be the younger brother of the British. Otherwise, this general trend is fundamentally unavoidable, and it also means that the relationship between Britain and Australasia cannot be restored to the past.
Before the National Day of 1930, a piece of news instantly attracted Arthur's attention, and even the attention of the whole world.
Europe ushered in another war.
Yes, after many years, the war broke out again in the Tsarist Russia ruled by Nicholas II.
It has been several years since the last civil war, and the Tsarist Russia ruled by Nicholas II still took a breath.
However, the arrival of the economic crisis has brought about a major change in the situation in Russia.
Because the current Tsarist Russia is an autocratic government that was born after the reform of the original capitalist government, the economic crisis still has a great impact on such a Tsarist Russia.
But Nicholas II's enemies were not affected too much by the economic crisis, which also made the situation in Russia unbalanced.
Even the other side was not affected by the economic crisis, but developed some industries and infrastructure during the economic crisis, and expanded its army to 500,000 people again.
On the Tsarist side, due to the serious economic crisis, the army had been reduced to 600,000 by Nicholas II.
Although the army was still larger than the other side, the territory of Tsarist Russia was several times that of the other side, and the population was much larger than the other side.
More importantly, Tsarist Russia, like the United States before and Germany now, suffered from the economic crisis, with countless unemployed people and many people on the verge of starvation.
Other regions were different. Although the resources of the other side were not too many, the centralized rationing system allowed most people to have a bite of food and not starve to death.
In comparison, the other side of Russia can obviously bring hope to people, which also makes the other Russia more prosperous.
It is worth mentioning that there are still many Russian capitalists in Tsarist Russia. The deprivation of the Russian people by these capitalists during the economic crisis was also the reason for the weakening of Tsarist Russia and the dissatisfaction of the Tsarist Russian people with the government.
As various contradictions accumulated, the rule of the Tsarist government was already unstable, and Nicholas II was also trying to strengthen his armed forces as much as possible.
In the context of the confrontation between the two forces in Russia, there were actually forces from countries including Britain, France, and Australia.
The British are currently the only one in power, and France certainly wants Russia to restore its strength and help itself resist the British.
But the British certainly don't want Russia to stand up again. After all, a complete and powerful Russia can pose a considerable threat to Britain in Central Asia and the Far East.
As for whether the British have enemies behind them who support Nicholas II, this is unknown. But the speed at which the other Russia rises in the economic crisis is indeed very exaggerated. It would be absolutely impossible without national support.
How exaggerated is his industry?
Throughout 1929, Australasia's annual steel production was close to 13 million tons, including 50,000 tons of steel and 70,000 tons of pig iron.
Such data is already good. Looking at the whole world, it can definitely be said to be a giant in steel production and a veritable industrial power.
In just a few years, the other Russia has increased its steel production to 5 million tons, of which steel production has exceeded 2 million tons, and its industrial level has exceeded the 4 million tons of steel production of the Tsarist Russia.
What is the level of the other Russia's annual steel production of 2 million tons? Compared with other important countries in the world, the steel production of the other Russia has exceeded that of the island countries and Italy, ranking sixth in the world.
In this comparison, the improvement of the other Russia's industry is still very exaggerated. More importantly, because of the large-scale expansion of industry, the other Russia has almost no unemployed people, and the people are struggling in their own positions and working hard for the future of the country.
Moreover, the industries of the other Russia are almost scarce in the country, and there is no need to worry about market problems.
The steel and other industrial products they built will be transported to all parts of the country and consumed in this great construction.
It is precisely because of this that compared with the Tsarist Russia, the economy and industry of the other Russia are healthier, as if the old and the new are changing.
The war was started by the other Russia.
Nicholas II and Tsarist Russia certainly don't want to start a war again and add fuel to the fire of their fragile economy.
But the two countries have huge differences in political ideas, and they are split from one country. It is impossible not to have conflicts.
The cause of the incident was that some political parties in the other Russia went to the territory of Tsarist Russia to attract rural population to join the party, and secretly organized them to go to the other Russia.
The other Russia that can arrange work and distribute food soon attracted a large number of Russian rural population.
After all, if they stay in Tsarist Russia, the government will not provide them with any relief, and they can only fend for themselves.
But the other Russia's actions soon attracted the attention of Tsarist Russia. The famine and chaos caused by the economic crisis led to the deaths of millions of Russian people.
After subtracting the other Russia, the population of Tsarist Russia is less than 100 million, to be precise, about 87 million.
The population of the other Russia is constantly increasing. At present, the population of the other Russia is close to 30 million, and it is still attracting people from Russia.
The continuous loss of population naturally hit the sore spot of Russian capitalists. After all, they rely on these civilians in the economic crisis. If there is no continuous labor of civilians to create wealth and resources, where can these capitalists get enough materials?
You know, after the people go to the other Russia, they will hate capitalism extremely, in other words, they will become enemies of capital.
This is what Russian capitalists don't want to see, and naturally it has also pushed the Russian government to prevent the other Russia from winning over the people.
The two countries have already had a civil war, and it is naturally impossible to be peaceful in the process of preventing it.
This process will naturally break out conflicts, and there will definitely be some conflicts that will rise to chaos and finally evolve into small-scale fighting.
As long as the gunshots are fired, both sides will naturally not admit defeat first. After all, this is related to the reputation of the country, and it is also related to which of the two Russias will take the initiative first.
On January 7, 1930, Tsarist Russia ushered in war again.
At first, it was just a conflict between the border guards of the two countries, and then it instantly evolved into a large-scale war.
The other Russia seemed to be well prepared, and the army went to the Polish front in a mighty manner, trying to cut off the connection between Tsarist Russia and the Ukrainian region.
This has to be mentioned in the previous intervention war. After the intervention war, the Black Sea coast was originally in the hands of the intervention army.
But because of the economic crisis, Ukraine was eventually returned to Tsarist Russia, at the cost of some resources and minerals.
Ukraine is still very important to Tsarist Russia. First of all, Ukraine is also a very important seaport. Secondly, the Ukrainian region can block the other Russia, making the route of the other Russia's external communication more distant.
But the problem is that there is only a connecting zone of hundreds of kilometers between Tsarist Russia and the Ukrainian region.
The narrowest part of this connecting zone is only tens of kilometers, and the widest part is only hundreds of kilometers, and the shape is long and narrow, like the throat of Tsarist Russia.
If it is quickly cut off from the narrowest point, the Ukrainian region will lose contact with Tsarist Russia, like an enclave hundreds of kilometers away.
This also exposes the intention of another Russia, which is to quickly capture the Black Sea coast, obtain a very reliable seaport, and limit Nicholas II's rule to the north.
Of course, this is only the first step strategy exposed by another Russia at present. If it can be unified, another goal of Russia will definitely be to establish a Russian Empire with a republican democratic system.
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