Since Hungary and Austria agreed to open their borders, some smuggling organizations active in East Germany have found an absolutely safe way to smuggle people, that is, to take Hungary, Austria and other countries to flee to West Germany.
Since then, the East Germans have been fleeing on a large scale.
Many families even disappeared without a trace overnight.
In Berlin, a large number of houses have been left vacant and unowned.
Many young men and women have also moved in because of this, and turned it into their own love nest.
The world is changing so fast that the SED has not had time to adapt, and it took only a few weeks for Erich Honach, who had long been the first secretary of the SED, to become a wise leader and an enemy of the people.
Because Comrade Honecker, after the mass exodus of the population, adopted a policy of restricting travel abroad and controlling the press, but these two policies completely stopped the people who were already on the verge of an outbreak, and they took to the streets one after another to demand the relaxation of restrictions on travel abroad and the news media.
The East Germans were second to none in the socialist camp, and their rebellion against the government was not due to material dissatisfaction, but to the severance of kinship between the two Germans.
Almost every family has a relative living on the other side of the Berlin Wall, and Hungary has suddenly opened up the need to smuggle people to the other side of the river, and the pressure to close the gap is a hundredfold.
The opposition did not come only from the people, but also from many cadres in the SED who were dissatisfied with Honecker's long-standing position as first secretary.
In particular, Honecker ordered the abolition of visa exemption with neighboring Czechoslovakia, as well as the policy of banning West Germans from entering East Germany.
These two policies were the trigger for mass popular protests.
As the ruling party, the SED must have someone to step up and take responsibility to quell the anger of the people.
On this issue, Comrade Honecker absolutely cannot stay out of the matter.
Under the critical situation, Comrade Honecker urgently convened a meeting of the Politburo to discuss countermeasures.
It is a pity that Honecker has now lost his former prestige, and even within the Politburo, there are many members who openly criticize Honecker, especially Senior General Erich Milk, who comes from the military.
In front of all Politburo members, he complained about Honecker's serious crimes, claiming that if Honecker did not resign, he would be discredited.
It was precisely because of the loss of the support of the army that Honecker could only announce his resignation due to illness.
His successor, Egun Krenz, was just a puppet erected by the opposition led by Erich Milk.
Comrade Honeck, who had suffered all his life, bid farewell to his job in the midst of opposition and returned home to recuperate.
Egon Klenz did not respond to public opinion and made some changes, first announcing the pardon of East German citizens who had fled to West Germany, as well as those who had participated in demonstrations.
And tried to accept the people's demands and make formal contact with the West German government.
The West German government was very excited to see the olive branch thrown by the GDR.
They have seen in a series of changes in the countries of Eastern Europe the weakening of the Soviet Union's control over the countries of Eastern Europe.
If the Soviet Union did not bother too much in the internal affairs of East Germany, the idea that West Germany could further improve relations with East Germany was very tempting.
Things happened so quickly that Seryosha, who had just settled the issue of the resettlement of 200,000 troops from Poland and Hungary, now had to prepare in advance for an even larger wave of withdrawals.
General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev is now busy with a meeting with US President George W.
Bush in Malta at the end of the year.
Gorbachev was desperate to improve relations with the United States, hoping that increased trade with the United States would help the Soviet economy get out of trouble.
Poland and Hungary now have both trade treatment that Gorbachev simply covets.
Seryosha is confident that Gorbachev was already blinded by the sugar-coated shells of the Americans.
Seryosha is now very dissatisfied with Walesa's move to cross the river and tear down the bridge, and he decided to give Walesa a little color to show him who is the boss.
So after signing a 10-year gas supply contract with Enron, Seryosha informed the Polish Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation that the price of gas and oil delivered to Poland would be raised to the same level as West Germany from next month.
Because Poland is no longer an ally of the Soviet Union, it is natural that it cannot enjoy the preferential treatment of the socialist family.
After Seryosha's order was issued, the Polish side protested and angrily denounced the Soviet Union's great-power chauvinism and the unforgivable crimes committed against Poland during World War II.
Seryosha didn't bother to pay attention to them, he directly cut off the gas pipeline to Poland, and the oil pipeline.
Even detained all trains to Poland.
At Seryosha's request, the Gorky Brotherhood also stopped the grain trade with Poland, and Seryosha wanted Walesa to taste the bitter fruits of his sowing.
Now Seryosha has begun to supply gas from his gas terminal in Poland, and the closure of gas supplies to Poland will not affect trade with other Western European countries.
Because gas can be transported to Europe by sea or by pipeline through Ukraine, there is no place for small Poland to threaten the Soviet Union.
The Polish side is very unimpressed by the trade embargo measures of Seryosha, because they are now backed by the United States.
Walesa even publicly claimed that the severance of trade ties with the Soviet Union was a farewell to Poland's bitter history.
Seryosha did not respond, and he is still organizing domestic enterprises to step up the production of more slab houses to accommodate the withdrawal of Eastern European troops who are about to return home.
Seryosha had already learned from the Ministry of Defense that if all the Soviet Red Army stationed in the countries of Eastern Europe were withdrawn to the country, it was estimated that there would be an additional million unemployed people at once.
The housing and work problems of these people are now weighing on Seryosha's shoulders, and the weight is overwhelming.
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How can more than a million jobs be created at once, and now that the Leningrad Special Economic Zone has reached the limit of its capacity, it is simply impossible to place millions of Eastern European troops in a few months.
Seryosha thought about it and felt that there was no other way to continue the development of heavy industry, which the Soviet Union excelled in.
Seryosha knew that the USSR lacked light industry and needed to import agricultural products from abroad on a large scale.
However, the inefficiency of agriculture in the Soviet Union was not a problem that could be solved in the short term, but on the contrary, the vigorous development of private-owned large-scale industry was a good way to accommodate a large number of unemployed people.
Think of the future Foxconn, almost a single factory can accommodate more than 100,000 employees.
However, Foxconn's kind of manufacturing industry was not suitable for the Soviet Union, and the Soviets were more suitable for metallurgy, petroleum and other resource industries.
After adjusting his thinking, Seryosha decided to follow the example of Stalin's industrial construction and build a number of new industrial bases in the resource-rich regions of the country. t1706231537: