The independence of Lithuania set a very bad precedent among the Soviet republics, and the subsequent Supreme Soviet Conference of Estonia and Latvia also declared the beginning of the independence process.
Therefore, for Gorbachev and the central government of the Soviet Union, the 28th Congress of the CPSU was already the last opportunity for the Soviet Union to unite the country.
Although Lithuania had declared independence, the Lithuanian Communist Party had split, and from the constitutional procedures of the Soviet Union, unilateral declaration of independence was null and void and had to be officially recognized by the Supreme Soviet.
Therefore, Lithuania still sent representatives to the 28th Congress of the CPSU.
Seryosha's constituency was not in Leningrad, he obtained the status of people's representative in the foreign economic and trade system, so the election of people's deputies in the Leningrad region happened to leave a large number of vacancies for the people of Seryosha's faction, and Sobchak, Yeltsin, Nastya, Gorman, and Pugachev were elected people's deputies of the Leningrad region one after another, thus entering the Leningrad Soviet Conference.
The original intention of this election was to allow the various political factions of the Soviet Union to temporarily unite and put the contradictions on the table of the Supreme Soviet for public discussion.
As a result, many democratic establishments that have never held public office have appeared on the list of people's representatives.
Based on this list alone, Seryosha can imagine what the 28th Congress will look like.
Although Seryosha has a high voice at the 28th National Congress of the Communist Party of China and is likely to make further progress in his career, age has always been Seryosha's hard injury.
Therefore, Yeltsin under Seryosha has become a key target of support, both in terms of age and resume, Yeltsin is a trump card in Seryosha's hands.
Now that Seryosha and Yeltsin have a good understanding of cooperation, Seryosha can easily raise funds for various large-scale infrastructure projects, and Yeltsin has a lot of experience in the management of these projects.
He can help Seryosha with some trivial matters in the process of the project.
Moreover, Yeltsin is now very fond of feathers, and Seryosha will not worry that he will enrich himself.
But Seryosha naturally didn't really give the Yeltsin family any favor, and with his help, Yeltsin's daughter Tatyana now runs a slab building factory that is responsible for providing a portion of Seryosha's sprawling gas pipeline project.
Because the Seryosha gas pipeline will run through the entire territory of the Russian Republic, the project is so huge that it will have an immediate effect on the domestic industry of the Soviet Union, and I don't know how many factories like this one alone have, so this small business of the Yeltsin family is not at all inconspicuous.
With a total investment of nearly $200 billion, Gorky Financial Group will have 50 years of exclusivity for the entire gas pipeline project.
It is the English abbreviation of buidoeratetransfer, that is, construction, operation transfer.
Seryosha financed the entire project through the financial institutions of the Gorky Group, which were then operated to recoup costs and profits, and finally transferred to the Soviet government.
The Soviet government did not have to spend a penny, but in 50 years it would have received a gas pipeline across the east and west of the Russian Republic, connecting the Tyumen and Siberian oil and gas fields.
In addition, the pipeline will extend north in Leningrad to connect Sweden, Finland and Norway, and to the south to Central Asia and the existing gas pipelines in the Caucasus.
Finally, it will be connected to the already completed pan-European gas pipeline project.
The whole project is so huge that many European media have even called this pipeline the eighth wonder of mankind.
In fact, the construction of this project has started very early, as early as when Seryosha went to Europe to raise funds, the project began the preliminary exploration work, and later because of the lack of confidence of European investors due to the Georgian incident, there was a large wave of withdrawal, and the whole project was in trouble for a while.
In a critical moment, Bank of Colombia stepped in to revitalize the entire project.
Later, Occidental Petroleum, Glencore, Enron Energy, British Gas and others were involved.
This was followed by the creation of a new company, the Eurasian Gas Group.
In the future, Eurasian Gas Group will be responsible for the construction in the early stage and the operation in the later stage.
Of the shareholders of the entire Eurasian gas group, Seryosha's Gorky group directly or indirectly controls 60 percent of the shares, and the remaining 40 percent is mainly controlled by European investors.
As for those investors who withdrew halfway, I am afraid that they may not even regret their bowels now.
Because this is a BOT project, the sooner you complete the construction of the entire project, the sooner you can generate profits.
Seryosha gave a death order to this, demanding that the main gas pipeline connecting the east and west must be built by the end of the year.
It was under such harsh conditions that the entire gas pipeline project absorbed a large amount of labor at once, and even the engineering units of the Soviet Red Army were thrown into this project.
In Yeltsin's hometown of Sverdlovsk Oblast, the Ural Heavy Machinery Plant, the pride of Soviet heavy industry, is running at full capacity to produce special steam turbines for the Eurasian gas pipeline project, while in the Ukrainian city of Dnepropetrovsk, the abundant orders for the Eurasian gas pipeline project have revived many already troubled steel companies.
Controlling natural gas has always been Seryosha's wish for many years, because oil resources have long been controlled by the seven sisters of oil, and Seryosha can't make much waves no matter how much he flutters, while natural gas is different, the basic energy of the entire European electricity, metallurgy and other industries in the future is natural gas, and controlling natural gas is equivalent to choking the throat of the entire European industry.
And the stable profits brought by natural gas are incomparable to oil.
The Eurasian gas bloc has given a glimmer of hope to the entire Soviet Union's precarious economy, not only in Europe, but even in Japan and South Korea in the Far East.
Japan's thirst for natural gas has reached the point of madness.
It was precisely because of this decoy that Seryosha received from Japan the technology for the production of gas pipelines, the key technology for the production of large gas turbines, which the Soviet Union could not master for many years.
Seryosha has now spread these technologies to the metallurgical industry in Ukraine, Russia and Poland.
This has reduced the total cost of the entire gas pipeline project by a significant margin. t1706231537: