Soviet Union 1991

Third update

After a few days of rest, the financial leaders of the four countries formulated corresponding supporting plans tailored for Pawlak. The first was to strengthen trade restrictions and impose a trade protection period of eight years. That is, based on these original foundations, Under the conditions, Poland has adopted an extreme economic tariff reduction of more than 90% on all goods to achieve true trade liberalization.

The second plan is to shorten Poland's trade protection period. After intense discussions among the finance ministers of the four countries, it was agreed that Poland's trade protection period would be three years, with the original conditions unchanged. In the eyes of others, these so-called world trade agreement plans are just which one is worse.

After providing two sets of plans to Pavlak, U.S. Treasury Secretary Robert also expressed the hope that this would be the last bargaining. If Poland was not interested in using economic trade with the Soviet Union as an excuse to threaten, the United States would take decisive retaliatory measures. In other words, if you play according to our rules, the trade war will cripple your economy in minutes. Moreover, Poland cannot withdraw from the WTO, otherwise the four countries will launch a currency war against Poland. In short, Poland will end up with either a dignified death or a dishonorable death.

Financial warfare is a tactic that can injure the enemy by a thousand, but one can also lose eight hundred in the end, and may be taken advantage of in the end. The financial giants on Wall Street do not agree to participate, but they will take risks and resort to this tactic when forced to do so. If you take the wrong approach, the final result will be that a large number of banks will go bankrupt or some investment banks will make a lot of money.

The United States has made an economic threat in disguise, and Pavlak, who has benefited from the benefits, dare not continue to negotiate terms. Originally, he used retreat as an attack, hoping to obtain a further fifteen-year trade protection period, but the United States is about to break up. Having assumed a direct stance against Poland, Pavlak did not dare to continue the threat. Pawlak is blind, but not stupid enough to have the guts to go against four economic powers.

So under similar circumstances, Poland chose the second plan. Compared with the harsh conditions of the previous two years, Poland is confident that it can adapt to the rules of the World Trade Organization as soon as possible within three years. Complete the complete transformation of the market economy.

January 7, 1996 was originally Christmas in Russia. People cheered and celebrated on this lively day. Little did they know that a silent contest was slowly coming to an end. Polish President Kwasniewski on the TV was delivering a speech at a press conference. He declared that Poland's accession to the World Trade Organization would be a change that would affect the world, and that Poland would make everyone happy in the next few years. See a new Poland.

If you observe carefully enough, you will find that except for the happy smile of the Polish president, the representatives of other countries seem a little absent-minded, indicating that they do not regard Poland's accession to the WTO as a very important matter. On the contrary, most people regard Poland as a delicious little fat sheep, waiting for a feast of roasted whole lamb.

"I thought Kwasniewski was a visionary guy before, but I didn't expect that he didn't have much foresight like Lech Walesa before him. Others just regarded Poland as a lamb waiting to be slaughtered, so they allowed him to join the WTO. Organization. In this way, Poland will only have the chance to shine in the next few years." Yanayev shook his head regretfully. In his heart, Poland has been sentenced to death.

Seeing this, Yanayev pressed the switch of the remote control, and the picture on the TV stopped. The screen returned to blackness. Yanayev dropped the remote control, but his mood could not calm down for a long time. The room seemed a little quiet, except for the sound of heavy breathing. And the echoing sound of the clock kept him company.

The excitement of Christmas did not make Yanayev's depression lessened by half. He was worried that the World Trade Organization's intervention in Eastern Europe meant that the possibility of the Soviet Union regaining its sphere of influence in Eastern Europe was reduced.

The deep-rooted concept of military hegemony and control of the world by successive leaders led to decades of abnormal development of the Soviet economy. Even though Yanayev used various means to try to save the Soviet economy, the economy often could not keep up with the Soviet Union's strategic needs. This This made him very anxious, and it was a kind of anxiety that was too much to do but too weak to do.

Anxiety is anxiety, but the road still needs to be walked step by step. All Yanayev had to do was to speed up the pace of Soviet economic development, or drop banana peels on the road to block his opponents' pursuit. But in the final analysis, if your own economic strength is not enough. If it really wanted to deal with the super economy of NATO and the United States combined, the Soviet Union would be hard-pressed to withstand it.

The plan for an Eastern Europe-Asia-Pacific economic axis has been brewing in Yanayev's mind for a long time. But he never took that tentative step. This idea is the same as that of the Asia-Pacific Cooperation Organization, but those who take the lead must pay a correspondingly heavy price. Faced with this kind of investment where the return is not necessarily proportional to the effort, Yanayev seems very cautious.

He now has a document on hand regarding his application to join the Asia-Pacific Cooperation Organization. Although in the original historical timeline, Russia should have been a member of the Asia-Pacific Cooperation Organization at this time, but after the timeline changed, it had just tentatively opened its market. The economic Soviet Union also wanted to join the game of trade globalization.

However, other countries' fear of the Soviet Union and the United States' provocation behind the scenes have prevented the Asia-Pacific Cooperation Organization from approving the Soviet Union's application to join the gaming circle. Although China and other Asia-Pacific countries strongly urged the Soviet Union to apply for membership in the Asia-Pacific Cooperation Organization, this part of the call has not yet moved the determination of the Council of Ministers.

Yanayev has actually thought about it. If that doesn't work, he can also win over China to establish his own small circle. Economically, it will be a Moscow-Beijing joint organization, and politically, he will wait until 2001 to establish the Shanghai Cooperation. organize. When the strength of the southern neighbor reaches one of the three major economies, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization will legitimately become a "mini-Warsaw Pact organization." At that time, with the goal of war on terrorism, strengthening military cooperation among countries will be no different from NATO's military integration, but with the addition of a legitimate anti-terrorism banner.

"You can take it one step at a time. After all, the Soviet Union still has a long way to go after opening up its market. Next year, the five-nation meeting mechanism in Shanghai will hold the initial negotiations. This is also the first attempt at cooperation between the Soviet Union and China." Nayev closed the report. He no longer wanted to find any way to squeeze into any economic circle, because the Soviet Union did not like to be a follower of rules, but a creator of rules. Just like when it challenged the Bretton Woods system, the Soviet Union's road to recovery will never stop.

"An ambitious country will not succumb to the butcher's knife of Europe and the United States. On the contrary, it will unite all the forces that can be combined to deal with its enemies. I think that far away in Beijing, who can memorize "Gettysburg" "People who give speeches" don't want to be someone else's for the rest of their lives. Follow me. A man in power who is about to change China and the world is steadily carrying out market economic reforms. Although the United States and Europe still dismiss him at this time, the foundation he has laid now will create the same foundation more than ten years later. The mighty red empire.”

Yanayev could only endure it for the time being. After all, Poland would end up seeking death without strength. If the Soviet Union and China really came together to create a new international economic organization, they would immediately become the target of siege by other capital powers. So the road has to be walked step by step. Although it is long, there will always be a day when we reach the end.

Yanayev stood up. The security team of the Ninth Bureau at the door was already waiting for his arrival. He was preparing to go to the Kremlin to convene a new round of Political Bureau meeting.

Regarding future development, he has planned that in the next ten years, the Soviet Union will revive again, returning the humiliation and anger it has suffered to the freedom camp.

Tremble before the red flag of the hammer and sickle, capitalists.

One day, our red flag will cross the Bering Strait from St. John's to the Far East, and the October Revolution will be sung again throughout the world.

The powerful red polar bear punishes the world! (To be continued.)