Soviet Union 1991

Second update

While Comrade Smiljev was still discussing with Comrade Makarov how to modify the Kara class at the Black Sea Shipyard, Yanayev had already begun to prepare to visit the three Baltic countries. This was also the first visit to these three countries that had been restless since the constitutional reform in 1991.

Although in the West, the Baltic incident was of the same nature as the Hungarian October Incident and the Prague Spring. They were all Soviet Union using violent means to invade other sovereign states in an attempt to maintain the status of its Soviet Red Empire. But they ignored that the Soviet Union and its member states were an unbreakable alliance relationship, not a relationship between sovereign states. Moreover, Yanayev's desperate amendment to the constitution made it a fantasy for the Baltic Sea to separate from the Soviet Union.

Moreover, after the political purge and martial law in the three Baltic countries, the Baltic Sea returned to its former tranquility. Yanayev's tendency to suppress national independence was stronger than Stalin's. After sending all the pro-Western cadres to the Siberian coal mines to dig coal, no one dared to shout democracy, freedom, equality and human rights anymore.

Because the next time you want to feel democracy and freedom, you will not dig coal in Siberia, but directly send it to the war zone of Libya or Iraq in the civil war. Do you want to feel the breath of democracy? Come on, Damascus, which is in the midst of war, and Baghdad, which is attacked by human bombs all day long, are suitable for you. Welcome to the heaven and earth of democracy.

At least the Soviet Propaganda Department made a propaganda poster with a very bad taste of the picture of American soldiers bombing civilian areas, standing on the roadside with a line of small words, "Welcome to the world of democracy, our fighters will present you with the flower of freedom."

After abandoning the Bretton Woods system, the United States has tried to use war to mess up the Middle East in recent years, and implemented the plan of linking oil with the US dollar, which also allowed Yanayev to find a way to stab him in the back.

Since the United States wants to maintain its hegemony in oil finance, it should be ready to fall into the quagmire of the Iraq War. Anyway, there are bears and rabbits digging your graves behind you, and sending you the eternal mourning couplets of the bald eagle.

Putting aside the political purpose behind it, at least the Soviet Union's political propaganda is not as rigid as before, but has become more and more people-friendly.

When Yanayev looked at these peaceful streets, it was hard to imagine that this was one of the focal points of the conflict that broke out during the split. The Soviet Union lifted martial law in the last part of the three Baltic countries last year, and a five-year alert finally came to an end.

"When I came to Estonia in 1991, people held up signs asking me to get out of this land. When I came here in 1997, the people who shouted for me to get out had long disappeared." Yanayev said to himself, "Maybe this is the change of the times. When freedom becomes a fig leaf for the West and human rights become the body bag of the capitalists' crimes, who would be willing to join them in launching street politics and shouting slogans?"

When Yanayev walked in the capital of Estonia, it was no longer the city shrouded in dark clouds. After the economic recovery of the three Baltic countries, it returned to its former tranquility, and there was no so-called call for freedom to interfere with the Soviet Union's progress.

Yanayev suddenly remembered the three Baltic leaders who sat at the negotiation table, Estonian President Arnold Ruettel, Latvian Anatoly Valery Gorbunov and Lithuanian President Vytautas Lanzbergis. Except for Ruettel who regained his freedom from the coal mines in Siberia, it is difficult to hear from the latter two. President Bush at that time had realized that these politicians without military and popular support were not enough to support the disgusting climate of the Soviet Union. Sure enough, after providing assistance for a period of time, because the domestic situation in the Baltic Sea changed too much, President Bush finally gave up the idea of ​​continuing assistance.

Giving up assistance is equivalent to losing everything. The two presidents who have cut off their source of income are likely to face the end of cleaning toilets in the United States.

However, Yanayev's itinerary to the Baltic Sea was a bit strange. The first thing he did was to visit the Amber Shipyard accompanied by Polokov, director of the Soviet Navy Shipbuilding Bureau.

The Amber Shipyard was not as lucky as the Black Sea Shipyard, but seemed to have a bit of a bad fate. The Black Sea Shipyard was originally listed as a key protected object by Moscow because it helped the Soviet Union build aircraft carriers. However, the Amber Shipyard did not have such research and development capabilities, which led to its neglect and even to the point of being on the verge of dissolution.

So Yanaev's appearance at this time was tantamount to bringing a ray of hope to this shipyard on the verge of dissolution. The director of the Amber Shipyard was very shocked by Yanaev's personal visit, and even he himself thought that the Soviet Union was likely to give up the Baltic Sea.

The entire shipyard seemed unusually cold, and the factory building seemed a little shabby. The rough brick walls had begun to show signs of peeling and mottled marks. The steel piled on the open space outside the factory had rusted, and the original cement ground had grown knee-high weeds. All this seemed to foreshadow the fate of the decline of this shipyard.

After there were no orders, many workers had to do other private jobs, and even Director Nikolayevich had to sell cigarettes on the roadside to maintain the vitality of his family.

The Baltic Shipyard is not the only example. In fact, there are many shipyards like the Baltic Shipyard throughout the Soviet Union that cannot wait for orders from the state and the workers cannot make ends meet. Moreover, the Baltic Shipyard has no orders due to sensitive issues at the time. It can only be said that the tragedy of a country led to the tragedy of the Amber Shipyard.

Of course, as a teacher of the capital crash course, Yanayev not only took out a part of the naval orders to feed the shipyard and restart the work, but also opened up an international market for foreign trade for the Amber Shipyard to earn foreign exchange for the Soviet Union.

"The 19 Nanuchka III-class ships of the Baltic Fleet and the Pacific Fleet will be upgraded to the Nanuchka IV standard, and the two 2-mounted 9 anti-ship missiles will be replaced with two 6-mounted 26 anti-ship missiles. The upgrade work will be carried out by the Amber Shipyard and the Red Star Shipyard. Director Nikolayevich, when you hear this news, do you still think that the Amber Shipyard will go bankrupt?"

When Director Nikolayevich heard Yanayev's statement, it was a bit unbelievable. Although the orders Yanayev brought to the Amber Shipyard were not large, they were able to alleviate the current difficult situation.

When Director Nikolayevich was about to ask for more orders, Yanayev just shook his head and said, "Now the Soviet fleet can only make steady innovations, and everything must be done according to plan. If the Amber Shipyard is in urgent need of orders, it can look ahead and target foreign customers."

"General Secretary Yanayev, are you saying that the Amber Shipyard now not only builds ships for the country, but also for foreign fleets?" Nikolayevich asked.

Yanayev asked back, "Does the Soviet Red Navy still have so much budget to add new ships? If the shipyard wants to survive now, it must go out of the international market. For example, when the delegation of the Indian Ministry of Defense, a partner of the Soviet Union, comes to visit, it is time to support your orders."

It was about the time when the Soviet Northern Design Bureau designed the Talwar-class frigate for the Indian Navy. This ship, which was improved from the Krivak-class frigate, was finally handed over to the Amber Shipyard for construction. And the Soviet Union eventually improved the Talwar-class frigate into a self-use version of the 11356 frigate. The two versions combined, with more than a dozen frigates, are enough to feed the Amber Shipyard.

Yanayev looked at the somewhat empty Amber Shipyard and answered very affirmatively, "Believe us, Director Nikolayevich, when the Indian defense delegation visits the Soviet Union, it will be an opportunity for our military-industrial enterprises to usher in a golden period of profits. By then, almost the entire Soviet shipbuilding, aircraft manufacturing and armored vehicle manufacturing departments will be eyeing this group of delegations. Seize the opportunity, there are not many fools these days."

Calculating, the Indians have almost drunk the water of the Ganges River, and are ready to come over to give money again. To be continued.