The large number of unemployed people caused by the withdrawal from Afghanistan posed a huge challenge to the Soviet government, and how to resettle these people has become the most troublesome problem for the current Gorbachev government.
In fact, even if there was no withdrawal, the actual unemployment rate in the Soviet Union was gradually rising, because wages fluctuated, so those enterprises that were not doing well had to cut the wages of workers, and those monopoly industries such as oil and gas, which were already well paid, raised wages.
Now that wages have actually shrunk considerably, more and more young people have joined gangs to engage in profitable smuggling business, especially those who have the opportunity to go abroad, and have become the main force of smuggling in the Soviet Union, and the smuggling of perfumes and cigarettes has now become a trend among Soviet civil aviation workers.
This situation is in line with Brezhnev's famous saying: "None of us can survive on wages" In this case, the underground currency exchange industry in the Soviet Union has gradually developed, and on the black market, the exchange rate between the rupee and the dollar has been twice as low as the official exchange rate, and in the face of this shrinking wealth, people have tried all kinds of ways to exchange their rubles into dollars.
Against this background, Seryosha decided to ask the Gorky Brotherhood to give up the low-end industry of smuggling and concentrate on the underground financial industry.
At present, the official exchange rate of the ruble against the US dollar in the Soviet Union is still maintained at about 15:1, but on the black market, this price is close to 3:1, in this case, the easiest way is to buy rubles from the black market and then go to the official bank to exchange, but for ordinary people, it is difficult for such an exchange not to be discovered by the financial regulatory authorities of the Soviet Union, so it is necessary to have a strong background and relationship to be able to do this kind of business.
Seryosha has unique conditions to do this kind of thing, when he first took over the Soviet Foreign Trade Bank, Seryosha had tried several times on a small scale, but now Seryosha has completely hollowed out the Soviet Foreign Trade Bank, and his one trillion foreign exchange deposits have been smoothly transferred to the hands of the Bank of Colombia, McDonald's, Kraft and other foreign-funded enterprises, there will be more foreign capital into the Soviet market in the future, then the foreign exchange outflow of foreign trade banks and the continuous inflow of rubles have a good excuse.
However, one trillion is not a small amount, and it is inconceivable that three or four foreign companies would want to exchange so much foreign exchange, so Seryosha also wants to buy more multinational companies, let them enter the Soviet market, and settle this account together, so that he can not only satisfy himself in controlling as many companies as possible in the US capital market, but also let the foreign exchange deficit on the Soviet side get a reasonable explanation.
If Glencore can take advantage of the wave of the Soviet Union's opening up to foreign capital to occupy the Soviet oil market as soon as possible, then Glencore may be able to compete with oil giants such as Mobil and BP in the oil trade.
In addition, Seryosha is also very interested in the natural gas of the Soviet Union, whether he can try to use foreign capital to build more natural gas pipelines, so as to increase Glencore's voice in the European natural gas market The current Soviet Union now mainly comes from the Caspian Sea, where various forces are entrenched, and it is basically impossible to reach out anymore.
Seryosha felt that only Tyumen gas, which had fallen into a state of stagnation in construction due to lack of funds, was still a bit of a problem.
The current Minister of Natural Gas Industry of the USSR and the leader of the All-Soviet Tyumen Gas Complex is Chernomyrdin, who has a good relationship with Yeltsin, and even has some friendship with Seryosha and him, Seryosha is very impressed by Chernomyrdin, because when he was a child, he listened to news broadcasts, and often heard this name in news about Russia, and during Yeltsin's tenure as President of Russia, Chernomyrdin once served as Prime Minister of Russia.
Therefore, heroes like Chernomyrdin are the ones that Seryosha must not miss in any case.
So, after the ministerial meeting on the resettlement of troops from Afghanistan, Seryosha looked for an opportunity to stop Chernomyrdin and wanted to discuss with him the establishment of a joint gas company and a pipeline company in Tyumen.
After Seryosha's brief introduction, Chernomyrdin fell into deep thought, and after a while, Chernomyrdin said to Seryosha: "Seryosha, the issue of natural gas is too sensitive, I don't think Secretary Gorbachev will agree to foreign capital in our gas business, but I think maybe we can use a piece of chicken ribs to pit those foreign capitalists."
Hearing that Chernomyrdin planned to pit foreign businessmen who came to invest, Seryosha couldn't cry or laugh, Glencore was his company, and now he actually wanted to discuss with Chernomyrdin how to harm his own business, which was really a big joke.
However, Seryosha still planned to ask Chernomyrdin how he was going to cheat foreign businessmen.
"Seryosha, do you know the Samotrolol oil field," Chernomyrdin said heavily.
"No, it's the largest oil field in our country, and the government is willing to let foreign capital get involved in the exploitation of the Samotrolol oil field," Seryosha asked in disbelief.
"If it weren't for the problem, it would definitely not have allowed foreign capital to come in.
However, now that the production of the Samotrolol oil field has fallen to a serious extent, and the international oil price has fallen sharply, Samotrolol has no recovery value in terms of cost," Chernomyrdin said with a long sigh.
"How is it possible, if I'm not mistaken, wasn't the Samotrol oil field discovered in 1965, and the production once surpassed the Saudi Gawar oil field, why did the production drop so much" Seryosha asked in confusion.
"Hey, it's hard to put it into words, the Samotallol oil field is no longer able to create benefits for the country, and if there is no foreign capital to take over, we will have to let the local oil workers switch to growing food for a living," Chernomyrdin said.
"How much money are you going to pit foreign businessmen," Seryosha asked curiously, he wanted to know what happened to Samotall, how could such a large oil field have only been exploited for more than 20 years "Ten billion dollars, foreign businessmen can get the exclusive right to mine for fifty years" Chernomyrdin cautiously put forward a figure, and after hearing this, Seryosha was happy. t1706231537: