Rebirth of the New Farmers in the 1980s

In Orthodox countries, Christmas is the second most important holiday after Easter.

Compared with Christmas in Western Catholic Christianity, it is thirteen days later.

This is determined by their messy calendars.

Since Tsarist Russia converted to the Orthodox Church a hundred years ago, Tsarist Russia celebrated Christmas on January 7 every year, and this practice has also continued to the Soviet Union.

But the Soviet Union was a socialist country. Religion was suppressed during the Soviet period because Lenin said that we would fight against religion.

Especially during the Great Patriotic War, many clergy were forcibly conscripted into the army and went to the front line, and the church was converted into a field hospital, a breeding ground, etc.

This is a huge blow to religion.

By the mid-1980s, the number of churches in the Soviet Union had dropped from nearly 80,000 to 7,500.

But when Gorbachev came to power, this kind of control was greatly loosened.

In December 1990, the Supreme Soviet issued a decree to list Christmas as a public holiday, and in 1991 the Soviet Union officially celebrated Christmas publicly.

This is the first time since 1928.

It is against this background that the Soviets have already begun to celebrate Christmas.

The supplies that Dimitri got back from Huaguo were to distribute benefits to the officers and soldiers for Christmas. Of course, there were only officers but no soldiers.

About two-thirds of these goods were delivered according to the price standard of the Soviet Union.

The remaining one-third of Dimitri obeyed the leadership's instructions and brought it to the market to exchange for some cash.

What Dimitri didn't expect was that the remaining one-third of the materials arrived on the market, and he was exchanged for more than 400,000 rubles in cash.

This is basically equivalent to the cost of this batch of goods.

It was as if a magical door had opened before Dmitry and his immediate superior.

It turns out that these materials are so valuable in the market that they can be sold for three times the price.

With this layer of reason, wouldn't they become Shabby if they asked for another half a million rubles!

Exchange the half a million rubles for supplies,

Back in Komsomolsk, it could sell for one or hundreds of thousands of rubles.

Dimitri's boss made a decisive decision. Not only were they going to exchange the remaining rubles for supplies, but they were also going to continue this way of making money.

That is why Dimitri came again in person.

Dmitri wanted whatever he wanted, anyway, it was all the same to Wan Feng whether it was goods, rubles or even Chinese currency, as long as he didn't want rice yuan, because he didn't have rice yuan either.

"What goods do you want, have you brought the order?"

"Just send me another one according to the last order."

Wan Feng immediately ordered Zhang Zhiyuan to send another copy of the goods he sent to Dimitri last time.

"Comrade Dimitri, even if you want the goods, you wouldn't come here in person, would you? You are not a small person. If you go in and out like this, will the KGB not pay attention to you?"

Dimitri showed a playful smile on his face: "How should I put it, the current Soviet Union... Leaving aside this, the KGB has no energy to take care of these messy things now, and pays attention to things in Europe. The Far East is now like the Soviet Union. an extrajudicial place."

This Wan Feng understands that the Soviet Union has begun to be chaotic, but it is only the beginning, and the Soviet Union will be even more chaotic in two years.

"Comrade Wan, I came here for a purpose. We plan to continue doing business with you in the future, and now we are going to discuss the possibility with you."

They still want to continue to do business with themselves?

Wan Feng was a little surprised.

"Yes, if you want, we will continue to work together."

Wan Feng laughed at himself.

Originally, he was going to start perfunctory and perfunctory the old man, but unexpectedly, he came to him and forced him to continue.

Is this good luck or bad luck?

"Comrade Dimitri, I'm a businessman. A businessman is only interested in profit. To do business, both parties must have the leverage to sell. Energy and oil are not in the scope of trading. I'm not interested in timber. I've already traded in steel. , I really can’t think of anything else worth my trade.”

Dimitri smiled: "Comrade Wan, even if you ask us to trade those things for civilian use, we can't get them. We don't have them, and what we have are things that are not available in the civilian market."

Wan Feng pretended to be confused: "I don't understand what you mean."

"It's the kind of thing we traded last time."

"Dimitri, you mean ammunition?"

Dimitri nodded slightly.

"I was entrusted with the things last time, and I acted only when I needed them, but now no one is looking for me. Even if you get the nuclear warheads, I can't get them out!"

"That's your business. This is not within the scope of our consideration. Except for the nuclear warhead, we can get the rest, as long as you are willing to trade."

Interpreting Dimitri's words, apart from nuclear weapons, they can get them all, no matter they are born to fly, swim in water or run on the ground. What is the other party doing with such a wide network?

"Dimitri, can I understand that you are bragging? As far as I know, land, sea and air in all countries are not in the same system. You can get land, sea and air? I don't believe it! Besides, if I ask Kuznet Can you also get the aircraft carrier Zoff?"

"That's too big, I can't get it."

"Look, it's still bragging."

"Except for things that are too big like warships and planes. It's not that they can't be made out, but they are too ostentatious and can't be covered up. Other than these big things, it's our business. You don't have to worry about asking. .”

That's right, people can only get what you want, and you don't care what they do if they brag or not, he just blows the bragging to death about his own business.

"Dimitri, you and the people behind you have thought about it. This is an act of treason. Aren't you afraid that one day you will be liquidated by the state?"

"Oh!" Dimitri sighed.

It is very rare for a Soviet person to sigh. Wan Feng has dealt with Shamilov countless times, but he has never seen him sigh.

"How can we not know what we are doing? But the Soviet Union, a powerful empire, we can't see its front now. Comrade Wan, we are in the military and our rank is not low. Many ordinary people we know don't know Knowing things. The reason why we dare to do this kind of thing so blatantly is because... there are some things that you foreigners can't understand. It's meaningless to say this, let's go back to the transaction itself, do you dare to accept our transaction? ?”

Judging from the way Dimitri hesitated to speak, these Soviet soldiers knew more or less the plight of the Soviet Union.

The terrible thing is that they also have a gloomy mentality about the future of the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union is really over.

Since Dimitri knew what he was doing, that means he should have no scruples.

The other party is not afraid, he has nothing to be afraid of.

"Then Dimitri, what bargaining chip do you want to use now to make a deal?"

Dimitri asked for a piece of paper and a pen, and scribbled something down.