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Chapter 248: Partition of Poland


When Walesa was elected Poland's first democratically elected prime minister in the middle of last year.

He had full confidence in Poland under the leadership of Solidarity.

He believed that he could lead Poland to completely get rid of years of maladministration and build a democratic and free Poland.

But when Walesa took a hard line on the Soviet Union and expelled members of the Gorky Brotherhood from within Solidarity, things began to go out of hand.

Although the Americans provided billions of dollars in financial support to Poland's nascent government, Walesa treacherously reneged on the promise he had made to Seryosha.

Not only did he restrict the Gorky Brotherhood's large-scale commercial takeovers in Poland, but he also completely offended the Soviet government.

The Soviet government not only canceled a series of preferential policies granted to Poland, but also cut off trade with Poland.

And the Gorky Brotherhood directly pulled out the Polish market.

When all this happened, Walesa was very unimpressed, because he believed that the Americans would not let Poland fend for itself, and that American companies would enter the Polish market like a tide, bringing a lot of jobs to the Poles, and the Polish economy would take off like a rocket.

But the facts slapped Walesa in the face.

American companies did not flock to Poland like a tidal wave, not even a single one.

On the contrary, Leningrad, across the sea, has gathered a number of powerful European and American enterprises to settle here.

Although the economy has not improved, prices have taken off like a rocket.

As a result of the withdrawal of the Gorky Brotherhood, both Glencore and the Soviet Mediterranean Trading Company ceased their commercial activities in Poland.

The market began to become more and more scarce, and when Walesa was in power for six months, prices were even twice as high as before he was elected.

To the displeasure of the Polish people, the Soviet Union cut off gas and energy trade with the Polish government, and the inhabitants of most of Poland had a memorable and bitter winter, with most of Poland without heating.

Even the capital, Warsaw, is the same.

A series of missteps in power have left many Poles disappointed in Walesa's ability to govern the country, but the prime minister was chosen by himself, and unless Walesa had any corruption problems, he would have to wait until the end of his term with tears in his eyes.

Anyway, now that freedom of speech has been liberalized, Walesa is still in the position of prime minister and refuses to resign.

Therefore, in the Polish people, people began to ridicule Walesa as they used to ridicule the first secretary of the Polish United Workers' Party, Jaruzelski.

If you catch a Pole on the street this year, ask him what songs have been popular lately.

Most of them will be happy to sing you two new songs, and a crowd will soon gather on the street to sing together.

One of these two songs is called Walesa, where did my 100 million dollars go, and the other is called You Never Trust an Electrician.

As you can tell from the titles, both songs are a satire on Walesa's poor statecraft.

These two songs quickly became popular throughout Poland, and even radio song programs sometimes played them at the strong request of listeners.

The people did their best to use their ingenuity to disgust Walesa, and even when Walesa held a press conference, a reporter asked in person whether he knew the two songs.

Walesa's expression was simply embarrassed.

Political reform will not fundamentally eliminate the economic woes.

Because economic problems must be solved by economic means.

Leningrad, across the sea from Gdansk, Poland, is a great example of this.

Since the launch of the Leningrad Special Economic Zone project a year ago, hundreds of thousands of soldiers who had been evacuated from Afghanistan laid down their arms and became construction workers in the Leningrad Special Economic Zone, and it took them just one year to transform the entire Leningrad Special Economic Zone.

In particular, after the commissioning of the gas terminal and petrochemical projects in the Leningrad Special Economic Zone, more and more merchant ships were coming to and from the Baltic Sea route.

The Poles, who were not uninformed, turned their attention to the Leningrad Special Economic Zone model, having thoroughly disillusioned with Walesa.

Speaking of which, Solidarity is not exactly a party of the working class, it is more of a loose political alliance, and Solidarity actually has a lot of people from the intellectual and religious circles.

They quickly realized how capable Walesa was.

As a result, within Solidarity, some opposition gradually appeared.

These people clearly recognized how unreliable the American promises were, and at the same time realized that Poland could not completely sever its ties with the Soviet Union and the Gorky Brotherhood.

At a time when Walesa's approval ratings both inside and outside the party began to hit new lows, these opponents finally couldn't help but stand up and raise objections to Walesa's poor governance.

In the face of high domestic prices and tight supply, as well as the shutdown of industry due to lack of energy.

The Polish leadership had to reconsider relations with the Soviet Union and its attitude towards the Gorky Brotherhood.

At the repeated invitations of Solidarity and Walesa, Yuri, who had left the United States in a bad mood, was invited back to Poland to participate in the reception and commemoration of the Polish government, and the Soviet side also received goodwill from Poland through various channels.

Seeing that Poland's attitude had softened, Seryosha stopped continuing his blockade policy.

He sent his henchman Nastya to Warsaw to make contact with the Polish government.

And Yuri's side also came with goodwill from Walesa.

After repeated trade-offs, in order not to let the Polish market fall into the hands of others, Seryosha finally changed his attitude towards Poland.

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The demands of the Polish side were quickly transferred to Seryosha here.

Maybe the Leningrad SEZ is developing too fast, and they want to cooperate with the Leningrad SEZ and use the Leningrad SEZ to revive the Polish economy.

After all, Poland is a big country in Eastern Europe, and there are still some good things, such as the Polish FSO Automobile Company, which is famous for the production of Polonaise, as well as the rich copper and zinc ore resources in Poland, which are the industrial raw materials that Seryosha urgently needs.

So when Walesa changed his attitude, Seryosha was no longer as knowledgeable as him.

Therefore, under the management of Nastya, Gorky Volkswagen soon came forward to discuss with the Polish government the cooperation intention of acquiring FSO Automobile Company.

Seryosha intends to keep the Polonaise brand as a sub-brand of Volkswagen.

In addition, Glencore and Mediterranean Trading have resumed business with Poland, with Glencore buying several large copper and zinc mines, and Mediterranean Trading resuming gas and oil exports to Poland.

The impoverished Polish government did not look forward to salvation from the Americans, but first to the partition of the Gorky consortium. t1706231537: