Chapter 242 Layout in Eastern Europe
Comrade Honecker, who is retired at home, can no longer stop the train of the GDR from driving towards the end. Honecker has always believed that the Berlin Wall is the guarantee of world peace. Once the West tried to cross the Berlin Wall, the Soviet Union would never sit still, but he never waited for the news that the Soviet Union sent troops. Instead, he saw the news on TV that Gorbachev and Bush were about to hold a summit in Malta.
The core topic of this summit is to end the confrontation between the US and the Soviet Union and establish a new type of US-Soviet relationship. However, for both parties participating in the meeting, the Soviet Union had the difficulty of having to do so. The plight of the domestic economy and the increasing number of ethnic and political conflicts left the Soviet Union without a stable environment in which to settle down and immerse itself in development. Although the current situation is far less dangerous than that faced by Lenin when the Soviet Union was first established, Gorbachev's weakness in his bones made her destined to adopt a policy of compromise.
Seryozha was fortunate to be appreciated by Gorbachev and will accompany him to attend the Malta Summit. However, it doesn't matter whether Sergei will go or not, because this time the summit will not discuss trade issues. In fact, he wanted to stay in the country more, because he knew that there would be problems in the GDR soon.
It is not only the Soviet troops stationed there that are withdrawn from Poland and Hungary, but also some government agencies and intelligence agencies will also be abolished. Compared with those big soldiers, these personnel are naturally rare talents, but there is no place for these people in the current Soviet Union.
Seriosha didn't want these intelligence personnel to go to Europe and the United States for their livelihood. He had long wanted to recruit some such talents to enrich the enterprises under the Gorky Consortium. You need to know how much resources it takes to train a Soviet spy who can lurk abroad for a long time. These people's extraordinary ability to survive abroad and the ability to spy on intelligence are not possessed by ordinary people.
The KGB who retreated back home soon discovered that they seemed to be the talents that the multinational companies in the Leningrad Special Economic Zone were vying for. In particular, Glencore, a well-known Swiss commodity trader, is eager to recruit these KGB who are familiar with business in Eastern Europe as their traders. Immediately after Enron Energy and Occidental Petroleum Corporation, two powerful companies are also eyeing the untapped market in Eastern Europe, in addition to Monsanto, which operates the chemical industry and agriculture, and Colombia, which is eager to start financial business Bank, and Columbia Insurance Company. They want to develop their own genetically modified business in Eastern Europe.
These one-in-a-million KGBs were quickly divided up by companies under the Gorky Consortium. These companies under the Gorky Consortium paid these KGB workers thirty times as much as they did when they were in the KGB. Many people have just left the country where they have worked for many years, and then returned with a different identity. People are still these people, but what they are going to do is completely different.
Occidental Petroleum Corporation's petrochemical base in Leningrad has started production, and the gasoline and diesel products produced here are in short supply in Eastern European countries. In addition, the joint venture cars produced by Gorky Volkswagen have also begun to be exported to Eastern Europe in large quantities. Because of the low labor cost of the Soviet Union, coupled with the quality assurance of Volkswagen. Cheap cars produced by the Gorky Volkswagen Automobile Plant began to sell well in Eastern Europe. In East Germany, Seryozha deliberately erased Gorky's logo, making people mistakenly believe that it was a product produced in West Germany. The people of East Germany were actually very rich, but the products they produced could not meet the needs of the people. Many people were not unable to afford cars, but because they did not get car coupons. The emergence of Gorky Volkswagen's cheap car products has made people no longer have to worry about car coupons. In addition, Columbia Bank's car loan business for users in Eastern Europe has reached a strategic alliance with Gorky Volkswagen, followed by the little-known Columbia Insurance Company. It also provides favorable car loans for Gorky Volkswagen. These two measures made Gorky Volkswagen quickly surpass Satellite and Skoda as the first choice of consumers in East Germany and other Eastern European countries.
The Colombian bank led by Mikhail has quietly knocked on the door of Eastern European countries with car loans. For these countries that have just changed the world, these companies represented by the Colombian bank are the capital of the booming Enterprises from communist countries are here to help them improve their economy, and it is too late for them to welcome these enterprises, so how could they expel them.
But in fact, Mikhail and others entered the Eastern European market with Seryozha's new plan. Although the current Eastern European countries are in recession, they are not useless, from the famous Skoda factory during the Austro-Hungarian Empire to the proud Carl Zeiss Jena lens of German optical instruments. These well-known companies are simply lambs waiting to be slaughtered, and they will soon become the dishes of Western countries.
Seryozha knew that he could not prevent the great changes in Eastern Europe, but he could take the opportunity to acquire those high-quality industrial enterprises in Eastern Europe and control Eastern Europe economically. With the current strength of the Bank of Colombia, it is enough to sweep the central banks of Eastern European countries, including the central bank of the Soviet Union. Seryozha wants to take advantage of the power vacuum in this region. Don't think that these countries will really be on the road to prosperity and strength from the socialist camp to the capitalist camp. They still have a long way to go.
Seryozha sold the Volkswagen cars produced in the Soviet Union to Eastern Europe, and even the Columbia Bank began to take root in Hungary and East Germany. Because Seryozha provided a series of financial policies unheard of by the people of Eastern Europe, the Bank of Colombia absorbed a large amount of deposits in Eastern European countries for a long time. To be on the safe side, Sergey exchanged the money for the currently unpopular East German mark at almost any cost. Sergey was not worried about the depreciation of the East German mark. Because he firmly remembers in his mind that when the two Germanys merged, the exchange rate between the East German mark and the West German mark was 1:1. This is a good opportunity to jump on and drop the pie.
The East German mark and East German enterprises are the focus of Sergei Sha. Only Poland was put on an economic blockade by Sergey because Walesa offended Sergey. The Leningrad Special Economic Zone is now starting to pick up, especially the gas terminal and petrochemical projects have begun to achieve profitability. So Seryozha proposed to Gorbachev to set up a second special economic zone on the coast of the Black Sea, the Komsomolsk Special Economic Zone.