The counterinsurgency activities of the Tula Airborne Division were provoked by extremist nationalists and had to shoot in self-defense, even if rubber bullets were fired, but they caused panic among the crowd, and then a stampede ensued, resulting in casualties.
According to later statistics, 16 people were killed and more than 100 injured in the incident, including 13 women and three men.
Subsequently, with the assistance of the Tbilisi police force and workers' pickets, the Tula Airborne Division successfully imposed a curfew on the city of Tbilisi.
In this way, the turmoil in Georgia, which lasted for several months, was forcibly suppressed by the Tula Airborne Division, but the great ethnic division and the people's dissatisfaction with the government caused by this incident in Georgia did not disappear with it.
Georgia's fundamental problems have not been resolved at all.
In response to this, Gorbachev made a televised speech entitled "Letter to the Communists and All Workers of Georgia", in which he expressed his deep sorrow over the events in Tbilisi and expressed his belief in the sanity of the Georgian people and did not propose any practical measures.
Two days later, at the Plenum of the Central Committee of the Georgian Party, Patiashvili was dismissed from the post of first secretary of the Central Committee of Georgia, and Gombaridze of the Shevardnadze line was elected first secretary of the Central Committee.
However, this still had a serious impact on Seryosha's Leningrad Special Economic Zone.
Because it ended up being bloody, and most of the dead were women.
Therefore, some media outlets that were hostile to the Soviet Union began to spread rumors.
As a result, under the instigation of the Western media, many investors who were optimistic about the Leningrad Special Economic Zone planned to withdraw their investments.
Seryosha, of course, could not allow these investors to withdraw like this, and he took out the contract he had signed at the beginning, which clearly stipulated that if an investor wanted to withdraw, he would not be able to execute it until one year after the funds had arrived.
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Otherwise, they would have to pay a huge amount of liquidated damages to the Leningrad Construction Company of the Soviet government, but many people chose to withdraw from it.
It is conservatively estimated that about $150 billion will be withdrawn from the Leningrad Special Economic Zone program.
Although your part of the funds has not yet caused problems in the early construction of the Leningrad Special Economic Zone, for those overseas customers who are optimistic about the Leningrad Special Economic Zone and want to invest here, the withdrawal of investment will seriously shake their confidence.
At this time, the news came from distant Hungary that shocked the whole world, the Hungarian ruling party, the Hungarian Working People's Party, was defeated in the national elections for people's deputies and lost its unshakable position.
As soon as this news came out, it was no less than an earth-shattering thunderbolt.
As a line of defense at the forefront of the Iron Curtain, Hungary's change of weather was a surprise to the Soviets and their allies.
According to Hungarian law, the Hungarian Working People's Party is the only ruling party, but at present it has less than half of the deputies in the National People's Congress, and a large number of non-Hungarian Working People's Party members occupy the seats in the congress.
This has led the Hungarian Working People's Party to pursue a policy of funding in congresses in the future.
Moreover, the current constitution stipulates that the Hungarian Working People's Party is the sole ruling party, which is seriously at odds with the actual situation, so can we deny the legitimacy of this election?
After this result, the Hungarian Working People's Party finally had no choice but to admit the reality and give up its position as the sole leading party.
The events in Hungary made Seryosha realize that changes in Eastern Europe might be imminent, and that the communist regimes in these Warsaw Pact countries would fall like dominoes.
In these countries, the Soviet Union has a large number of elite troops, and these troops will soon be driven back to the Soviet Union, just as the Soviet Union withdrew from Afghanistan.
Their housing, employment and other problems will make the Soviet Union's already overdrawn financial situation even worse.
At that time, if the Leningrad Special Economic Zone had not yet been put on track, these people would have become the most miserable people in the Soviet Union.
Seryosha now realizes that his plan to defraud the capital of European countries can only succeed and not fail, and if it fails, the economy of the Soviet Union will completely collapse, and the order of the entire country will be completely chaotic.
But the amount of money needed to build the Leningrad Special Economic Zone is astronomical, and the difficulty of accommodating the Soviet Union's massive million-dollar withdrawal will far outweigh the difficulty of accommodating the Afghan withdrawal.
The point is how those foreign investors could keep their money in the Soviet Union when the upheavals in Eastern Europe really came.
The reality of the situation forced Seryosha to think about how to make a quick buck.
To salvage a sum in the U.S. market, although Seryosha's total assets are close to five trillion, he is still not the opponent of big conglomerates such as Goldman Sachs.
It may be possible to go to Japan, but now Japan's real estate and stock markets are still strong, and Japan is the country with the most abundant foreign exchange reserves in the world, and the strength of this country may be stronger than Goldman Sachs.
Seryosha thought about it for a long time in his office, and he decided to make a phone call to Yakovlev, who was an expert on international issues and a member of the Politburo Standing Committee, and Seryosha wanted to ask about the withdrawal of Hungarian troops.
The call didn't take long to get through, and Seryosha asked Yakovlev about the Hungarian Working People's Party, and then he slowly shifted the conversation to the Soviet garrison in Hungary.
"Secretary Yakovlev, I would like to ask you, what if the current Hungarian government asks our troops to withdraw from Hungary, I know that we have 200,000 troops stationed on the Austro-Khalan border, and now Austria-Hungary has bypassed us and reached an agreement to open the border alone, where our troops can do nothing, they will not play their due role at all, I want to ask if I should also reserve some posts for these people when building the Leningrad Special Economic Zone" Seryosha asked seriously on the phone.
Yakovlev replied: "Seryosha, you may not know that just half an hour ago, the Hungarian government sent a note to our ambassador asking us to negotiate with us on the withdrawal of Hungarian troops.
Shevardnadze and I are discussing this matter together right now.
This time Hungary is resolute and unkind to us, and I'm afraid we won't be able to delay it for long." t1706231537: