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Chapter 172 The Soviet Union Withdraws From Afghanistan

A week after the symposium, "Portrait of the Communist Youth League" indeed changed its weekend version according to Selyossa's instructions and added an introduction to foreign movies. In order to encourage the comrades of "Portrait of the Communist Youth League" to continue reforming according to the design method he said, Selyossa handed over the first advertisement of McDonald's in the Soviet Union to "Portrait of the Communist Youth League". Although Volkswagen was Selyossa's first project to introduce the Soviet Union, it took too long to build a factory, which was not as flexible as a catering company like McDonald's. Just over a month after Yeltsin returned to China, the first McDonald's restaurant was grandly opened in the Moscow attachment.

Yeltsin was invited to attend the opening ceremony as an opening guest. As the first American restaurant in the Soviet Union, this McDonald's attracted tens of thousands of customers to queue up. The Pravdale of the Communist Youth League also changed the previous serious news theme and regarded the opening of the McDonald's restaurant as a landmark event of Gorbachev's reform. However, what surprised the majority of young people in Moscow the most was the large McDonald's advertisement published in the Pravdale of the Communist Youth League, which also included a coupon for the restaurant. As long as it was cut from the newspaper, it could be used directly as a ruble. This trick made the Pravdale of the day's sales several times.

However, everyone soon discovered that the news of Hollywood movies and British rock musicians was published in "Police of China" was so surprising. After all, "Police of China" has always given people the impression that only officials can read it. But now "Police of China" has begun to introduce foreign cultures with great fanfare, which has made many young people who have given up this newspaper become readers of "Police of China".

The good start of "Polete 1999" made the newspaper editors' new route pointed out by Selyosha. Selyosha felt that just this was the only way to achieve the goal of fully controlling "Polete 1999". At Selyosha's request, "Polete 1999" hired some experienced enterprise managers from the Youth Science and Technology Center under the Youth Committee to help "Polete 1999" transform into the direction of the enterprise.

Selyosha entrusted this matter to his capable general Khodorkovsky, who was responsible for transforming the Pravdale of the Communist Youth League, helping the old newspaper to create its own advertising department, and strive to make Pravdale of the Communist Youth League self-sufficiency and no longer rely on state funding. Khodorkovsky took over this task unscrupulously. He quickly took away a sales team from the Mediterranean Trading Company and went to Pravdale of the Communist Youth League to work.

The reform of "Prince Truth of the Communist Youth League" also aroused Yakovlev's interest. He lived abroad for a long time and knew what foreign media looked like. Yakovlev supported Selyosha's reform of "Prince Truth", including Selyosha's desire to transform "Prince Truth" into an independent media enterprise. Because in Yakovlev's view, the media cannot maintain its independence by accepting financial support from the government, and he did not expect Selyosha to do so to control the newspaper.

Under the stimulation of the weekend overlooking "Popularia of the Communist Youth League", the sales of "Popularia of the Communist Youth League" began to roll upwards. Because of the unique perspective of "Popularia of the Communist Youth League", many young people no longer regard reading "Popularia of the Communist Youth League" as an outdated thing, and becoming loyal readers of "Popularia of the Communist Youth League" has gradually become a fashionable thing among young people.

If you miss the weekend special issue of "Prime de Truth of the Communist Youth League", you will definitely not be able to insert into the topic of young people.

So, after this wave, Jeltsin's column on the weekend began to be published in the form of pseudonyms. The main content was to introduce American lives in the form of travel notes. This kind of article does not look like a political article at all, but rather like a travel guide. The reason why Jeltsin wrote this was Seryosha's suggestion. Seryosha did this to maintain the overall style of "Prime de la Truth", and also helped Jeltsin to win over readers. As for Jeltsin's political propositions, they were naturally spread to readers through these "travel notes".

It takes time to get Jeltsin back to the public as a street politician, and it does not take any results overnight. However, Seriosha feels that he should be the right move to pay attention to the media. After all, most of the media is controlled by Yakovlev, and even Ligachev does not have a media that specifically speaks for him.

Ligachev has been busy with the dispute with Shevardnaze during this period and has not had time to deal with the Mediterranean trading company. In addition, there is another big thing that needs to be dealt with by Seriosha. That is the withdrawal of troops in Afghanistan.

Just at the end of last year, Gorbachev had given the Soviet military an ultimatum. If the issue of jihadists in Afghanistan cannot be completely solved, all the troops were withdrawn from Afghanistan. Although the military tried to prove its ability to control Afghanistan, it eventually returned in vain, so the withdrawal of troops was put on the proposal at the Politburo meeting.

You should know that in the early years, because of the frequent occurrence of Central Asian soldiers fleeing on the battlefield, the Soviet Ministry of Defense did not call on the Central Asian soldiers with disorganized disciplines and instead recruited trustworthy Slavic soldiers from Russia and Ukraine. Now that the troops are going to withdraw, what should we do with the work of these people? What should we do with the housing problems after returning to the motherland? All of them need Gorbachev to deal with and solve them. However, the Soviet Union's finances have not yet recovered from the Chernobyl incident, and Gorbachev actually has no way of doing it.

A large number of soldiers who returned to the Soviet Union from the front line would soon find that what awaited them was not the enthusiastic embrace of the motherland, but the cold real problems. These people would face practical problems such as employment and housing. Because the war had stopped, the Soviet Union would not support so many armies, but what would these young people who were used to killing do?

Selyosha really needs people now. Not to mention the distance, just the construction team of the Workers' New Town, the Volkswagen Joint Venture Automobile Factory, and the Tymoshenko family's agricultural projects in Dneprpetrovsk all require a large amount of labor. This group of soldiers came at the right time. However, Selyosha could not completely accommodate all the soldiers retreating from Afghanistan. In addition, where do these young people live?
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