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Chapter 288: A hard-won victory


"Secretary Gorbachev, this time we can only join forces with the Eastern European Unified Market Organization, the United States and us are too different, but the Eastern European Unified Market and we have the same goal," Seryosha reported on the phone.

Seryosha and Mikhail joined forces to sing a double reed in Yugoslavia, with the aim of squeezing the United States, the United Nations, and the European Community out of the land.

To this end, Seryosha first exerted strong pressure on the Albanian side with the help of Albania's eagerness to join the unified market.

The Albanian government was forced to abandon its support for Albanian armed groups in the autonomous province of Kosovo in the Yugoslav Republic of Serbia.

Just after the Albanians in Kosovo were weaned, Milosevic, on the one hand, resisted the pressure to send the elite Yugoslav troops to the border area of Kosovo, and on the other hand, Milosevic openly expressed his willingness to communicate sincerely with the Albanians of the autonomous province of Kosovo at any time.

It turns out that the Albanians in Kosovo really cannot hold out without outside support.

Under the arrangement of officials sent by the Republic of Albania, they began negotiations with the Yugoslav Government on the status of Albanians in Kosovo and the Albanian armed groups in Kosovo.

Why the Albanian government is so obedient and almost accepts the demands of Mikhail and Seryosha is of course the consideration of the Albanian government.

Mikhail made a special trip to visit the leaders of the Albanian government and revealed several key messages to them.

First, the unified market welcomes Albania's accession, but if Yugoslavia is unable to join the unified market, there will be no way to talk about the free movement of people and the zero-tariff passage of goods, and a war-torn Yugoslavia is not in the interests of Albania, and once Yugoslavia is in war, if Albania wants to trade with other members of the unified market, it can only bypass the Black Sea by sea.

Second, Mikhail told the Albanian side that once Yugoslavia and Albania join the unitary market, the other member states of the organization and the Central Bank of Eastern Europe will build a railway connecting Gdansk, Poland, with the Albanian port of Dura.

Albania is now finally seeing reality.

If Yugoslavia were not able to join the unified market, the value of Albania's accession to the unified market would be greatly reduced.

In particular, the railway, which runs north and south through Europe, can connect the Baltic Sea and the Mediterranean.

With this railway, which port on the Mediterranean coast could be compared to the port of Duraz in Albania.

Almost 100 percent of the goods destined for Eastern Europe or the western part of the Soviet Union will be unloaded at the port of Dula, which will lead to the number of related service industries and the number of jobs that will be provided Although the Albanians of the province of Kosovo and the Albanians of the Republic of Albania are of the same species, the Republic of Albania is now in a difficult position to defend itself, and the newly elected pan-democrats are eager to prove that they are more capable of governing than the Albanian Communist Party in the past.

However, if the economy still does not improve, how can the pan-democrats control the political power and continue to promote their own political ideas, so in the face of real interests, the Albanian government can only sell out its compatriots in Kosovo in exchange for its own interests.

Just after Mikhail left Albania, Albania became more urgent about Kosovo's security than the Yugoslav government.

The Albanian government has not only changed its old rhetoric and recognized that the Kosovo issue is an internal affair of your Slavs.

They even sent people to contact the local Albanian militants and took the initiative to persuade them to accept the Yugoslav government's conditions and give up the idea of allowing Kosovo to become independent.

The Albanian government even moved out the Unified Market Buddha.

Because one of the policies of the Unified Market is that people can move freely between the member countries of the Unified Market, this means that once Yugoslavia joins the Unified Market, Albanians in Kosovo can move wherever they want.

In that case, wouldn't it be good to go to Albania, if you don't like Serbs, you can change places to live, and just move to a place full of Albanians When the Yugoslav government, the Albanian government, and the Kosovo rebels all had the same demands when they joined the unified market, all the contradictions became easily resolved.

The Yugoslav government soon reached an agreement with the rebels in Kosovo and the Albanian government.

The Albanian rebels have the option of laying down their arms and surrendering to the government, or leaving Kosovo to live in Albania.

The Yugoslav Government would have spared Albanians in Kosovo, while the Albanian Government had chosen to abandon its position in favour of Kosovo's independence.

After the Kosovo issue was resolved, the land between Albania was finally connected from Hungary through the Yugoslav Republic of Serbia to Kosovo.

Even though Croatia and Slovenia are still at war, the basis for the construction of the railway connecting the Baltic and Mediterranean ports under the Unified Market Plan finally has been built.

After dealing with the affairs in Kosovo, Seryosha said goodbye to Milosevic and planned to return to the Soviet Union.

Although the Soviet Union did not support the Yugoslav government's military operations in Croatia and Slovenia, now that Kosovo had been settled, the Soviet Union had finally won another diplomatic victory over the United States, and the unified market had smoothly avoided the warring areas by land and connected the vast expanse of Eastern Europe from the Baltic Sea to the Mediterranean.

In the future, even if Slovenia and Croatia do join the United States and the European Community, they will not pose much of a threat to the current unified market.

Seryosha had a deep conversation with Milosevic before leaving.

With regard to Slovenia and Croatia, Seryosha's advice was not to spend too much energy on this, and that instead of letting the war consume Yugoslavia's national strength, it was better to shift energy to the economy.

Not only will the Soviet Union not recognize Slovenia and Croatia now, but never will it ever be, and as long as the Soviet Union does not recognize them, Croatia and Slovenia will not be able to be absorbed into the United Nations.

Once Yugoslavia has survived this period of economic hardship, it is not too late to resolve the problems in Slovenia and Croatia.

So under the persuasion of Seryosha, Milosevic withdrew his troops in Croatia and Slovenia.

At the same time, the Soviet side and the United Market Organization simultaneously declared that they would never recognize the unilateral declaration of independence of the Yugoslav member states such as Slovenia and Croatia.

This means that, at least in the two influential international organizations of the United Market and the United Nations, the door to the independence of Slovenia and Croatia has been completely closed. t1706231537: