Chapter 139 Uninvited guests from the Red Square
Kalim and Peterson joined forces to turn this matter into an international trade dispute. Now this is no longer a matter of shareholders of several companies, but it is related to the trade issues of the three countries. The Federal German government has always believed that the Volkswagen Company Protection Act is the internal affairs of its own country and other countries have no right to interfere. However, the United States and the United Kingdom do not think so, because it is the government's unshirkable responsibility to safeguard the interests of their own companies.
Seryosha is now paying attention to this big trade dispute every day in Moscow, and he is waiting for the German government to surrender. In the Soviet Union, the working class, who was dissatisfied with the cuts of some of the welfare, has set off rounds of doubts about the reforms of Gorbachev and Ligachev.
Although daily necessities like soap are inconspicuous, they are used every day in people's daily lives. Under the deformed economic system of the Soviet Union, these light industrial products were far from meeting the market demand. However, if these products were to be produced under the planned economy system, a series of complex and tedious processes were required. Not to mention the inefficiency, the quality of the products produced was not very good. After Seriosha reduced the supply of these goods in the national market, due to the shortage of available products, the actual purchasing power of rubles in the hands of ordinary people was also reduced, which in fact further made rubles worthless.
Inflation further increases the cost of living in China, which provides soil for smuggling activities, and also makes foreign exchange such as Mark, US dollar and other foreign exchange more valuable in the underground market. Many underground smuggling groups and money shops are taking advantage of the current expansion of their strength and accumulating original capital. Selyosha will not care about such small businesses, and they always have to give the people a meal. Therefore, under Selyosha's instruction, the customs and anti-smuggling departments under the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economics began to turn a blind eye to the rampant smuggling activities, and secretly acquiesced their actions.
Gorbachev was dissatisfied with the mess in the country, but Ligachev was unable to completely regain the economic power of the lower ministries and committees, which made Gorbachev increasingly dissatisfied with Ligachev. The domestic economic reform of the Soviet Union reached a stagnation, but political reform took the lead. The open party represented by Yakovlev completely occupied the main position of public opinion. Compared with the two, Gorbachev trusted Yakovlev's ability more and began to give him greater power and platform.
At this moment, something happened that made the Soviet Ministry of Defense feel extremely embarrassed. On May 28, 1987, it was a sunny day, with tourists on the Red Square around the Kremlin. Many foreign tourists from friendly countries were also impressed by the magnificence and glory of the Kremlin. People chose the best angles to take photos in the square.
At this moment, the roar of motors suddenly came from the sky, and people looked into the sky. A small blue and white extension was hovering at a low altitude, as if they were looking for a place to land among the crowds in Red Square. After a while, the plane chose to land on an open space next to the Vasily Blatt Church.
Most of the tourists on Red Square were Soviets. They knew where this place was. A plane actually landed on Red Square. What a rare thing. What event was being held? Driven by curiosity, everyone surrounded them and raised their cameras in their hands and pressed the shutter at the small plane.
Not long after, the cabin door of the plane was opened, and a young man jumped off the plane and began to cheer wildly, while also greeting people around him enthusiastically.
Although the guard on Red Square felt strange, he still regarded the landing of the plane as an arrangement of the superior department. A guard came over and said to the young man: "Brother, I have been here for several years. This is the first time I have seen a plane landing here! Where did you fly over?"
"My? Helsinki? It's been flying for almost five hours, and I'm starving to death!" said the young man lightly to the guard in uniform.
"Where is that? Is it in Belarus?" The guard seemed to have not understood, so he asked again.
"No!" the young man denied.
The tourists around heard that the young man had been flying for five hours but didn't have time to eat. Someone gave him the food he had with him. After she expressed her gratitude, she sat at the cabin door of the plane and started eating. She looked really hungry.
"Helsinki, is it a city in the three Baltic republics?" The guard felt that the place name was very familiar, but he just couldn't remember where the place was. So he began to ask the tourists around him for advice.
"Who of you has heard of where Helsinki is? I can't remember it?" As soon as the guard asked, many tourists shook their heads and said they didn't know. At this moment, a little girl about ten years old would say: "I know where that is, and that is the capital of our neighboring country Finland!"
"Finland? Hey, who approved your flight..." As soon as the guard asked, he suddenly realized that Finland was not an ally of the Soviet Union, but a country on the other side of the Iron Curtain. Then the guard rushed towards the young man without hesitation and curled him with handcuffs.
The tourists around looked at the young man as if they were looking at the aliens again. They really didn't understand how this young man came to Moscow from Finland.
"I'm asking you seriously, are you really coming from Finland?"
"Yes, Mr. Police!"
"How did you come here?"
"I took off from the airport in Helsinki and flew over according to the instructions on the map."
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"Look, this plane belongs to West Germany!" someone suddenly exclaimed at this moment.
Upon hearing this, the guard pulled the young man in the direction of the crowd and tourists' fingers, and walked towards the tail of the plane, and saw the flag of the Federal Germany on the tail.
"Who are you?" the guard asked in anger.
"I am Mardias Rust, who lives in Hamburg, Germany, and I'm glad to know you!" The young man seemed to know what he would face. He reached out to shake hands with the guard to show friendship. But the guard ruthlessly knocked down his hand and said seriously: "Well, you bold German, you have been arrested! I want to hand you to the KGB."
Chapter completed!