Chapter 240 Turbulent Eastern Europe

Poland and Hungary, which betrayed from the socialist camp, were naturally resisted by the socialist countries headed by the Soviet Union, but the United States was quite interested in them. No, Lech Walesa has just been elected as the new Prime Minister of Poland, and the new US President Bush has taken the initiative to visit Hungary and Poland.

In Hungary, Bush promised to give Hungary most-favored-nation trade status, and at the same time provide Hungary with an annual aid of 1 billion U.S. dollars. This makes the Hungarian government, which is suffering from economic downturn and insufficient supply, feel very caring. Bush Sr.’s approach is also effective for Poland. As an old friend of the United States, Lech Walesa’s Solidarity union has not benefited from the reduction of American Americans over the years. . However, the preferential treatment in international trade gave the Polish government and Walesa himself a reassurance. For Lech Walesa, who has just taken power, Bush's guarantee seems to have put a safety lock on Walesa's first term as prime minister. At least in terms of economic construction, Walesa believes that he can turn things around.

The discoloration of Hungary and Poland has not only affected these two countries. Since the opening of the Austro-Hungarian border, a large number of East Germans have fled to West Germany through the Austro-Hungarian border. At the same time, in East Germany, repeated strikes and demonstrations pushed East German leader Honecker to the crater, and even within the ruling party of East Germany, Honecker's resignation appeared. voice. This is simply another replica of Hungary's ouster of Kadar.

Strikes and demonstrations demanding reform spread like a plague from one country to another. In Romania, six former leaders of the Romanian Communist Party spoke out against Ceausescu's dictatorship. Although Romania's secret police are well-known in the socialist camp, almost as famous as the KGB, people are still fearless of danger and rush to join the camp against Ceausescu.

In Bulgaria, calls for the resignation of Todor Zhivkov, the First Secretary of the Bulgarian Communist Party, within and without the party, who, like Kadar, served as Bulgaria's first secretary for a long time, although Bulgaria has been Reforms are being carried out, but Zhivkov's reforms have not brought any positive changes to Bulgaria until now. Whether it is comrades in the party or ordinary people, they have lost patience with Zhivkov. But Zhivkov was still unwilling to step down from the position of first secretary.

In Czechoslovakia, a public march was held to commemorate the victims of the Soviet invasion of Prague two decades ago. The death of a college student at the event sparked even greater unrest. And in Yugoslavia, the relationship between Kosovo and Serbia is simply a replica of another Georgian time. Even Albania, which had broken relations with the Soviet Union, was in turmoil.

The color revolutions that are blooming everywhere have already caused the socialist camp to falter. And the growing democratic separatism in the country made the Soviet Union not have a stable political environment for economic construction. People are obsessed with political activities such as protests and demonstrations. Who will farm the land, who will work in the factory, and who will teach in the school?

The Soviet Red Army stationed in Hungary and Poland has become unsustainable. Their camp is now surrounded by local troops. A little carelessness may lead to armed conflict. The American guarantee gave Hungary and Poland the courage to say no to the Soviet Union. They even issued an ultimatum to the Soviet government, demanding that the Soviet Union withdraw all

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Cut the garrisons, or they will send their own troops to help the Soviet garrisons leave their homeland. Seryozha couldn't see the faces of Hungary and Poland. He personally called Gorbachev and asked the troops stationed in the two countries to raise the alert level. Seryozha was moved by emotion and reason, because the Soviet Union is about to enter the cold winter, and the nearly 200,000 troops stationed in the two countries will have to live in tents in the cold wind of Siberia if they return to China now.

But Gorbachev was still unmoved. In the end, Shevardnadze negotiated some resettlement fees from the two governments.

When the Polish garrison returned to Leningrad by ship, Seryozha personally went to the pier to greet him. There was no welcoming crowd at the scene, because they were not the victors who went out for their country. Now they are just withdrawn troops expelled from Poland, and they have a similar mood to those troops who returned from Afghanistan.

Seryozha made a speech at the scene, and he wanted these people to guarantee that they would have their own jobs after returning to China. Although the Leningrad Special Economic Zone is still blank, they can build their own homes with their own hands.

Almost overnight, Seryozha had another 200,000 construction workers pitching tents around Leningrad's newly built city roads. In order to allow everyone to live in relatively warm board-built houses when winter really comes, Seryosha sent countless orders to almost all factories in the country that can produce board-built houses. He even mobilized wagons to transport slabs to Leningrad to build houses. At the same time, the cadres of the Leningrad Special Economic Zone, such as Yeltsin and Nastya, were all on the front line to manage the construction of the board building.

Under Yeltsin's excellent management, the resettlement work and the construction work have been going hand in hand. The first phase of the Leningrad petrochemical project and the Leningrad natural gas terminal have finally completed the construction work and started to be officially put into operation. The resettlement housing project was also successfully completed. The Leningrad Special Economic Zone finally has some decent demonstration projects.

The completion of the first batch of projects has reassured foreign investors, especially the completion of the natural gas terminal, which has made Leningrad the largest natural gas trading market in the Baltic Sea and the Nordic region. Almost on the second day after the completion of the natural gas terminal, Enron, an upstart in the US market for natural gas power generation, signed a 10-year supply contract with the Soviet Union's gas concern led by Chernomyrdin. The total value of the contract exceeded one hundred One hundred million U.S. dollars.

This news made Gorbachev look at Seryozha with admiration for a while, and it also made Gorbachev more convinced that the Leningrad Special Economic Zone was the right way to reform the Soviet Union's economy. Gorbachev became more trusting and dependent on Sergey, while his hostility towards Yeltsin eased.

Under the temptation of money, Seryozha finally fulfilled his promise. Before the first snowfall in the Soviet Union, all the workers in Leningrad lived in board-built houses. The workers knew that they were not in the snowstorm. Living in the tent and shivering is because of someone, although it is still cold in the wooden house, but at least they have some hope. Now every time Seryozha comes to inspect the construction situation, a large number of people come to greet him spontaneously. Seryozha enjoys this feeling from the bottom of his heart. His children made him happy by tying red scarves around his neck.