On December 31, 1990, less than 12 hours before the New Year's bell rang.
And on the construction site of the Tyumen oil field, tens of thousands of people gathered here to wait for a historic moment.
Wearing a hard hat, Seryosha stood quietly on the muddy and cold ground, and everyone was full of excitement despite the freezing weather in the field.
Not far away, several heavy cranes dropped a section of the pipeline into the air and slowly moved to the last section of the Eurasian gas pipeline.
The welding workers who had been waiting there for a long time were already eager to try.
Despite the cold winds in Siberia, the enthusiasm could not be stopped.
The Eurasian gas pipeline project connecting the east and west of the Soviet Union was about to be completed ahead of schedule.
Hundreds of thousands of Soviet construction workers struggled for more than half a year.
Now media outlets throughout the USSR are quietly waiting for this landmark event.
Almost everyone in the Soviet Union knew how much the gas pipeline would boost the Soviet economy in the future once it was fully completed.
Just a few days ago, the three major international rating agencies raised the sovereign credit rating of the Soviet Union.
It is important to remember that not so long ago, four republics declared their independence from the Soviet Union, but political instability did not have any effect on the strong rebound of the Soviet economy.
Since some regions wanted to withdraw from the Soviet Union, and the laws of the USSR clearly stipulated this, everything should be carried out in accordance with the legal procedures.
It's going to rain, my mother is going to get married, let him go.
This kind of thing is not a big deal for those who still love the country.
At the last meeting of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the CPSU, Seryosha and Ligachev's Marxist-Leninist program faction had a frank communication with Yakovlev's democratic program faction, and after this discussion, the path of the future CPSU was re-established, that is, to inherit and carry forward the socialist theory put forward by General Secretary Andropov under the condition that the ideology of the first gear transformation has now been abandoned.
The entire focus of the CPSU was to concentrate on economic construction, and at the same time, in order to cope with the risk of the collapse of the Soviet Union, to strengthen the ties between the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and the party organizations of the union republics.
In the future, even if there is a real split in the Soviet Union, the CPSU cannot split.
At this meeting, both the Marxist-Leninist program faction represented by Ligachev and the democratic program faction of Yakovlev made certain concessions.
Because it has been proven that Ligachev's political ideas are no longer realizable, and Yakovlev's political ideas will make the CPSU face a split.
Therefore, the return to the theory is of great significance to the CPSU, because it means that the CPSU as a whole has a tangible goal that can be fought for.
As part of the economic reforms, Seryosha has begun a drastic overhaul of the country's zombie company, Venus.
In dealing with these enterprises that were so heavily indebted that they could no longer generate profits for the state, Seryosha chose to completely privatize, liquidate and rectify the property rights of these enterprises, and properly resettle the original workers through the funds raised by privatization.
The Soviet Union was originally a high-welfare state, with free medical care, education, and housing.
However, the market-oriented reform is only concentrated in the industrial and agricultural production sectors, and even if the workers in the future lose their jobs, there will not be any major problems with the livelihood of these workers.
Seryosha did not dare to reform those industries that involve domestic livelihood issues.
After all, if there is no car to drive, it is nothing, but if there is no house to live in, no food to eat, no medical care, and no schooling, the common people must overthrow the government.
When the final welding work was completed, the entire construction site resounded with a neat and loud "Ula" sound.
The workers, who had been struggling for more than half a year, hugged each other excitedly.
The Soviet Union, despite the most critical situation, insisted on building the gas pipeline, which was called the eighth wonder of the world.
Just before this pipeline went through.
Japan and South Korea in East Asia and Britain, France, and Germany in Western Europe have signed new natural gas cooperation agreements with the Soviet Union, and the newly established Eastern European Unified Market Organization has also signed a 10-year cooperation agreement with the Soviet Union.
Natural gas from the Soviet Union became the most stable source of energy in East Asia and Europe.
The construction army recruited by Seryosha will not cause mass unemployment as a result of the completion of the gas pipeline, because in fact another oil pipeline connecting Komsomolsk and Leningrad is about to be launched.
In addition, the international oil pipeline connecting Kuwait to Syria, which was contracted by the Soviet Union, was also put on the agenda.
In the energy infrastructure sector alone, the demand for labor is in short supply.
Not to mention other industries in the USSR.
The reversal of the economic environment finally allowed the reform of the CPSU to begin to find the right direction.
For the Soviet Union, energy and heavy industry remained the best industries in which the Soviet Union excelled.
The Soviets were not suitable for the production of things that were directly oriented to the consumer market, such as gadgets such as electronics that are now popular in the world.
However, the Soviet Union is still in a leading position in the world in the petrochemical industry, construction machinery industry, as well as oil exploration equipment and mining equipment.
Out of the need to save government spending, the CPSU collectively decided to drastically reduce defense spending.
Four new-generation aircraft carriers, originally built at Ukrainian shipyards, were put on international trading platforms, which are of great interest to India, Brazil and other countries.
When the Soviets offered to buy the four aircraft carriers through barter instead of foreign exchange, even China and Argentina got involved.
This Soviet model of trade was an innovation for the whole world, selling high-value-added industrial and military products in exchange for low-value-added agricultural products, resource products, and primary industrial goods.
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In this way, the threshold for transactions can be lowered, and the exchange of information can be exchanged.
As a result, at the beginning of 1991, the Soviet Union reached a new international arms deal with India for rice and tea for aircraft carriers, coffee and soybeans for aircraft carriers with Brazil, beef for aircraft carriers with Argentina, and light industrial products for aircraft carriers with China.
After these four deals, the Soviet Union was able to meet its own needs while also exporting these goods to Eastern Europe and other European countries.
This incident opened up a completely new path for the Soviet Union's arms trade, and some African countries and Latin American countries suddenly discovered that in fact, the Soviet Union's arms purchase threshold was not high, and what used to require a large amount of dollars to obtain now only needs their own minerals and agricultural products, which is too convenient.
Under Seryosha's control, the Soviet Union never defaulted on its debts, and the London Club, an international creditor, had agreed to a plan to convert most of the Soviet Union's bonds into investments, and the largest crisis of the Soviet economy was finally over. t1706231537: