Seryosha read the news of the crash in the newspapers early in the morning, and the next morning, US President Ronald Reagan made a televised speech in which he said that the Soviet Union was ostensibly advocating a yearning for peace and promoting global disarmament, but behind the scenes, it was quickly and ruthlessly committing terrorist acts, taking the lives of innocent people.
The downing of a civilian airliner is an atrocity of cold-blooded massacre against unarmed civilians, which is inexcusable and deserves international sanctions and condemnation.
Two days later, massive anti-Soviet demonstrations erupted in Seoul, the capital of South Korea.
In the following days, the Soviet Union, Japan, and the United States dispatched planes and ships to search the nearby waters, and the Soviet Union insisted that the plane was shot down after invading the Soviet airspace and after many ineffective warnings, while the United States insisted that Flight 007 had deviated from the course because of a mistake.
But the international community was generally sympathetic to the weak, and the Soviet position was quickly suppressed.
Although this incident seems to have nothing to do with Seryosha, Seryosha noticed one word after watching US President Ronald Reagan's televised speech, and that is sanctions.
There is no doubt that once the sanctions against the Soviet Union Seryosha were imposed, the grain export business would be wiped out.
Canada is likely to follow in the footsteps of the United States and join the camp of sanctions against the Soviet Union, and it is imperative that Seryosha know what the Canadian government intends to do.
If the series of questions of whether to sanction the Soviet Union or whether it would ban grain exports to the Soviet Union is not properly handled, Seryosha's investment will be lost.
In addition, whether cotton and electrolytic aluminum exports from the Soviet Union would also face sanctions from consumer countries, if that case, the Romanov trading houses would also be greatly affected.
At this moment, Seryosha first thought that the person who could help was the former Soviet ambassador to Canada, Yakovlev, and Seryosha hoped to find out the thoughts of the Canadian government through him, so as to prepare in advance.
So Seryosha made a phone call to the Moscow trade union, asking the chairman of the union, Korolev, to come and ask Yakovlev to come to Canada to contact the government and find out their intentions.
Faced with a generous offer from the Moscow Residential Bank, Yakovlev left Moscow as fast as he could, and urgently flew to Vancouver.
Many people in Moscow officialdom know that Yakovlev had a very good personal relationship with Canadian Prime Minister Clark, and it was he who helped Gorbachev win the agreement between Canada and the Soviet Union on agricultural cooperation.
The grain export business was the basis of Seryosha's domestic business in the Soviet Union, and Seryosha needed Yakovlev to use his private channels to find out whether the Canadian government had any intention of banning grain exports to the Soviet Union.
Two days later, Yakovlev finally arrived in Vancouver.
Seryosha personally went to the airport to meet Yakovlev, and the two returned to downtown Vancouver in the same limousine, along the way Seryosha told Yakovlev what he wanted to do, hoping to get some advice from Yakovlev.
"Hey, it's a pity that the situation in the domestic anti-corruption struggle is so good, I didn't want to be destroyed by the reckless Air Force with a single missile," Yakovlev said with emotion inadvertently, suddenly pulling on to another matter, and seemed to be lamenting the fate of the Soviet Union.
"Director, what do you mean?"
asked Seryosha puzzled.
"Seryosha, you are still young, and you have not been working for a long time, and you still don't understand what is going on, this attack on a civil airliner has caused a very bad impact in the international community, and will cause more difficulties for our economic reform.
If we continue to adopt a high-pressure policy towards domestic officials, then the security federation will face both domestic and international pressure, and I am afraid that we will have to let the remnants of the Brezhnev faction go again this time," Yakovlev said with some regret.
"I see," Seryosha replied gratefully.
This is really what Seryosha did not expect, just like Yakovlev said, this time the Soviet military stabbed a big basket, and the Americans will definitely take advantage of the topic to play and aggressively sanction the Soviet Union internationally.
At this time, the foreign trade situation of the Soviet Union will be even more severe, and if the domestic opposition takes the opportunity to force the palace again, President An is very likely to become the second Khrushchev.
However, this is good news for Seryosha, at least he will face much less pressure at home.
"Director Yakovlev, you must help me, at least to get the Canadian government to abandon the use of food as an embargo.
You know that this matter concerns not only me, but also our secretary Gorbachev," Seryosha said bluntly, and now Gorbachev is the common backer of Seryosha and Yakovlev, and Gorbachev is also the secretary in charge of agriculture, and if there is a problem in the grain import business, it will seriously damage Gorbachev's prestige in the party.
Seryosha and Yakovlev also had absolutely no good fruit to eat.
"I naturally understand this reason, and from tomorrow I will contact my acquaintances in the Conservative Party, and I will also contact my old friends in the Liberal Party, first to find out what the Canadian Parliament means, and finally to Prime Minister Clark, and you should not be idle, and see if you can get the cooperation of the Romanov Trading Company, a partner of the Moscow Trading Company, to lobby the officials of the Ministry of Agriculture and the Ministry of Foreign Trade, and we will try to promote this matter from all links," Yakovlev suggested.
"I'll go and communicate with the Romanovs, don't worry, director," Seryosha promised.
After Seryosha sent Yakovlev back to the hotel to rest that day, he returned directly to his place of residence, and through the conversation with Yakovlev, Seryosha already had a general idea.
Yakovlev has been in Canada for a full ten years, and he is more familiar with the Western political system than Seryosha, and there are some things that people do see thoroughly, and the most important thing in this matter is to win over some people who oppose sanctions.
Yakovlev did not know that Seryosha actually controlled the grain production enterprises in Saskatchewan, at least the parliamentarians who represented the interests of Saskatchewan farmers were still very hopeful.
On the issue of grain exports, these people still have a lot of say.
Thinking of this, Seryosha finally had a score in his heart.
When he returned home, Seryoshala began to discuss the matter with his lovers, and at present there were two ways for the Saskatchewan Wheat Joint Venture and the Soviet Union to trade grain, one open and one dark.
Apparently it was the grain import contract signed by Gorbachev during his visit to Canada, but the indirect trade was done through the Romanov trading company.
The Romanoff matter is not a big secret, as long as the US or Canadian government has the intention, it will definitely be able to investigate clearly, and if something happens, Monsanto's deal may also be affected.
"Well, I think Monsanto will be taken over by Eva, including the Dakota Pasta Growers Company, and Eva will take over, and if there is really a food embargo, we will change the transit to Turkey, where Yakov has just made new friends," Seryosha decided. t1706231537: