Although the withdrawal from Afghanistan has not yet been officially launched, a number of troops have already been withdrawn to Russia ahead of schedule.
But when they returned to their homeland after many years of fighting, they could feel the warmth of their motherland when they left the train station, and in the following time they were like forgotten garbage, they were still uncared for in the barracks.
The Afghan withdrawal was also being discussed in the newspapers at this time, but the focus of the newspapers was to review the losses inflicted on the Soviet Union by the war.
Although Gorbachev was also a member of the Politburo at that time, he understood that the war in Afghanistan was a decision made by the Politburo by a collective vote, and Brezhnev, who had been vacated because of illness at that time, voted against it, but Gorbachev and Yakovlev still put all the blame on Brezhnev's head, and Gorbachev also canceled Brezhnev's Hero of the Soviet Union medal for this reason, which is really stingy enough.
The withdrawal from Afghanistan was crammed into makeshift dilapidated military camps, and as time passed, the excitement of returning to their homeland faded.
And more often than not, there is confusion and helplessness about the future.
Many people are starting to worry about their work and life.
During this period, only the newly established Gorky Volkswagen Joint Venture Automobile Plant recruited workers from them, but they only needed those who had certain mechanical and electronic skills, and many of the soldiers who were originally engaged in maintenance and support work in the rear were asked to leave by Gorky Volkswagen, and those young people who did not know anything but to fight still stayed in the barracks every day, drinking, playing cards, and sighing.
A week passed, a month passed, as the withdrawal of troops began to unfold, more and more people lived in the camp, the living conditions here became worse and worse, and the Soviet government was in financial difficulties and could not properly resettle these people, so the phenomenon of fighting and brawling in the camp occurred from time to time, and it seemed to have become a powder keg that caused social unrest.
Some soldiers who had gone to Afghanistan for war with temporary signs were discharged upon their return and were allowed to stay in settlements for two months before leaving to fend for themselves.
However, most of the people had nowhere to go, so many people did not leave, which caused a lot of difficulties for the subsequent resettlement work.
However, when some enterprises under the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League came here to recruit workers, the situation finally improved.
The Central Committee of the Communist Youth League gave these people three ways out: either to work as oil workers in the Samotrol oil field in Tyumen, to work for foreign capitalists, or to go to Siberia to open up wasteland.
Or go to the construction of a gas pipeline near the Caspian Sea.
At the same time, the Komsomol will be responsible for where these people have a place to live and a salary.
Most of the soldiers here are young people under the age of 30, many of them Komsomol members, and they are very grateful for the helping hand extended by the organization.
The torture of these days has made them realize the reality, and it would be nice to be able to have a job to make ends meet.
So a large number of soldiers began to pack their bags, took off their uniforms, signed work contracts with these enterprises brought by the Komsomol, and happily went to Tyumen, Siberia, Ukraine, and the Caspian coast.
When they got off the train and were pulled to their place of work, many people were angered by the conditions where the so-called housing was a dilapidated and rusty container with a door on it, and the first thing everyone did when they arrived here was to pick up a paint bucket and paint their container with anti-rust paint.
Everyone found the person in charge to protest, but the person in charge here said lightly: "Those who don't want to do it can leave now, and we will pay the travel fee."
Some people left at the time, but most of them endured.
The conditions here are tough, but there is still some income.
It's better than fooling around in a settlement.
Seryosha was supposed to produce slabs to build houses to house these soldiers, but there was no ready-made production equipment for that thing, and it was necessary to build a special factory and also carry out some design and optimization work, and since this was a government-supported project, the profits were stable.
So Seryosha gave this good errand to Hassan, and let Hassan take charge of the preparation of the board building factory.
As a result, the dilapidated and discarded shipping containers were used as temporary shelters.
Seryosha has no time to care about the lives of the soldiers, and he is busy receiving Gorbachev's big gift housing and utilities and social development bank.
When he got the bank's accounts, he was surprised to find that there were still 500 billion dollars in funds on the account, and Seryosha was naturally overjoyed.
Sooner or later, the money will fall into his pocket.
He thought the bank was a mess, but he didn't expect that there was still money.
However, Seryosha understood after a little thought that this money was originally left by Ligachev for economic reform, but unfortunately there was many obstacles to the implementation of economic reform at the local level, and the economy of the Soviet Union did not improve at all, so this money was retained.
The turmoil in Georgia caused Ligachev to completely lose Gorbachev's trust, and Yakovlev became the second person behind Gorbachev.
At Gorbachev's suggestion, much of the work in the secretariat began to be handed over to Yakovlev.
Ligachev didn't know anything about it until he noticed that he was coming to his office less and less.
Ligachev and Yakovlev have long had contradictions, and their political views are very different, one is a loyal supporter of Stalin, and the other is eager to send Stalin to the judgment seat of history.
And now Yakovlev has the support of Gorbachev, which makes the moderate reformers represented by Ligachev unusually angry.
It is a pity that the single-minded Ligachev has made too many enemies, and he has almost no friends in the Politburo, and there are quite a few enemies like Shevardnadze.
The first new workers recruited by Seryosha were mainly settled in the Samotrol oil field in the Tyumen region.
After exploration by Occidental Petroleum geologists, the field still has a chance to be saved, but the first thing to do is to drain the oil.
Relieves the pressure on groundwater inside the oil field.
This will take at least a year.
Because of the arrival of a large number of laborers, the Samotallol oil field has returned to its former vitality.
These soldiers, who lived in tin containers, became the first workers of the Glencore Samotrol branch in the Soviet Union, which, unlike most joint ventures in the Soviet Union, was the first wholly foreign-owned company in the Soviet Union. t1706231537: