Resource Tycoon Reborn

Chapter 544 Fang Mingyuan’s efforts

July 21, 1990, history will forever remember this day!

On this day, Lithuania, a republic of the Soviet Union, located on the Baltic Sea, with a total area of ​​63,000 square kilometers and a population of more than 3 million, officially declared its independence from the Soviet Union!

At 8 o'clock in the morning, President Adamkus of the Republic of Lithuania read out the Declaration of Lithuanian Independence, and then the Lithuanian Parliament held a special session to celebrate Lithuania's independence. The Lithuanian government also held a series of celebrations, including a solemn flag raising on Independence Square.

Ceremony. The Soviet flag, which has been flying next to the flag of the Republic of Lithuania since the 1940s, was not raised this time. Only the Lithuanian flag ushered in the dawn of a new day alone!

Lithuanian President Adamkus also delivered an impassioned speech at the flag-raising ceremony. In his speech, President Adamkus deeply thanked the signers of the original Declaration of Independence.

Lithuania's declaration of independence caused great consternation among Soviet leaders in the Kremlin!

The first step for Lithuania's independence was to take over Lithuania's border from the Soviet army. The Lithuanian government also proposed that the Soviet army should withdraw "honorably" immediately, otherwise the two sides would become "hostile" countries.

People all over the world were shocked by this sudden change! In their view, the Lithuanian government's challenge to the Soviet Union's powerful national power seemed tantamount to destroying itself with an egg against a stone. With more than 60,000 square kilometers of land, more than 3 million people

The population of the Soviet Union is really insignificant compared to the Soviet Union, which has a land area of ​​more than 20 million square kilometers and a population of nearly 300 million. Even with only an order from the Soviet leader, the Soviet army can control it in just a few days.

The whole territory of Lithuania.

However, Lithuanians are excited and even ready to fight for independence. Many Lithuanians said one sentence in interviews with the media - "We never think that we are part of the Soviet Union."

As soon as this news came out, people all over the world turned their attention to the Soviet Union and this small country on the Baltic Sea. People were speculating about how the Soviet government would react to this, and whether it would be like it did to the original

Just like the October incident in Hungary, troops were sent to suppress it.

Fang Mingyuan, on the other hand, was immediately recruited back to the capital by Su Huandong.

"Mingyuan, what do you think about the Lithuanian independence incident? Can Lithuania truly become independent?" Su Huandong asked solemnly. The impact of this news on him was too great. Until now, Su Huandong still feels that

It is impossible for Lithuania to become independent. But it did happen. Thinking about the changes in Eastern Europe, Fang Mingyuan had talked to him in advance, and during the Chinese New Year, he also vaguely mentioned it

The current social instability in the Soviet Union made Su Huandong feel that Fang Mingyuan might have had a premonition of this matter.

"Lithuania's independence was a huge shock to the Soviet government. I think that the Soviet government should use various methods to avoid the expansion of this incident, and will try its best to suppress Lithuania's independence requirements. I personally think that then

As the situation changes, the Soviet government is likely to use the army!" Fang Mingyuan said bluntly.

"Use the army?" Su Huandong took a breath. Although he had already thought of such a conjecture, hearing it from Fang Mingyuan still gave him a considerable impact.

"Use the army! The leaders of the Soviet government know very well that if Lithuania's independence cannot be suppressed, then Lithuania's independence may very well become the trigger for the disintegration of the Soviet Union!" Fang Mingyuan dropped a bigger bomb!

"The Soviet Union is disintegrating!" Su Huandong cried out. For their generation, the Soviet Union stood in front of them like a big mountain, which was so difficult to climb. Especially its huge military strength made the suppressed China breathless.

.It is really unbelievable that such a country with the largest territory in the world, a country whose military strength is comparable to that of the United States, and a country whose economic strength is only second to the United States may be facing disintegration.

!

Fang Mingyuan understood his mood very well. Not to mention the current Su Huandong, in the previous life after December 1991, after the Soviet flag was lowered from the Kremlin, most people in the world still felt that it was like

It was a dream. A superpower with strong military and economic strength that had been in the hearts of China and Western countries for decades suddenly perished silently.

"Yes, the Soviet Union collapsed. Grandpa Su, I believe you know the current situation of the Soviet Union better than most people in the country. Since Stalin came to power, successive Soviet governments have tried their best to suppress other republics in the Soviet Union.

Vigorously oppose local nationalism and safeguard the tradition of Great Russian chauvinism. Therefore, cadres and intellectuals in the union republics who are dissatisfied with central policies, demand expansion of autonomy, and praise the history and culture of their own nations are all regarded as bourgeois elements, and they are criticized or

Imprisonment, attacking and suppressing dissatisfied and rebellious ethnic minorities as class enemies of socialism. Using class struggle to deal with ethnic issues results in artificially creating class contradictions and class struggles in ethnic relations, and dividing the rights and interests between various ethnic groups.

Internal contradictions are artificially transformed into contradictions between ourselves and the enemy, causing the long-term class struggle to expand, seriously hurting the feelings of these ethnic groups, deepening the crisis of ethnic relations, and encouraging the tendency of ethnic separatism. During the Cold War, these contradictions were exacerbated by the fact that the United States was the enemy.

It has not been revealed. But the fact that the contradiction has not been revealed does not mean that the contradiction has disappeared, but it is like a sleeping volcano. The longer it accumulates, the more violent it will be when it erupts!" Fang Mingyuan said in a deep voice, "The Soviet Union and us.

The situation is different. We are dominated by the Han nationality. No matter which province we live in, the Han population is firmly in the majority. However, in these union republics of the Soviet Union, Russians are not in the majority. Lithuania is one of them.

.”

Su Huandong nodded. What Fang Mingyuan said was indeed the current situation of the Soviet Union.

"The three Baltic countries were all independent countries at that time, but they were divided by the Soviet Union and Germany through treaties in World War II. Later, the Soviet Union defeated Germany and forcibly incorporated them into its own territory. It can be said that the nationals of these countries have no recognition of the Soviet Union.

It was not high in the first place. But after becoming a Soviet, it was forcefully purged by the Soviet government where Russians occupied the vast majority of leadership positions. Not only did the existing conflicts between the ethnic groups not be resolved, but new hatreds were forged. Now there are

Opportunities will naturally burst out. Hey, after Lithuania becomes independent, I believe that the other two countries will also declare independence soon. This will trigger a domino. When more and more republics declare independence,

Can the Soviet Union survive?”

Su Huandong pondered for a long time and then said: "Mingyuan, what do you mean, if the Soviet Union really disintegrated, the main reason was that their ethnic policies went astray?"

"No, no, no!" Fang Mingyuan shook his head like a rattle, "I personally believe that the most important reason for the disintegration of the Soviet Union is that the Communist Party of the Soviet Union is no longer the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. It has been completely corrupted and has become completely different from the Soviet Union.

Ordinary citizens broke away and became a special class above the Soviet citizens, a class that relied on Soviet citizens to suck their blood. What they did made the ordinary citizens of the Soviet Union lose their confidence in the government's prestige and credibility.

Completely lost. The people’s disappointment in the Communist Party of the Soviet Union is the fundamental reason for this result!”

"Coupled with the deterioration of the domestic economic situation in the Soviet Union, it is difficult to guarantee the basic life of the people. Compared with the citizens of European and American countries, the gap in living standards between the two sides is too large, there are too many unfair treatments, and the people's psychological imbalances,

This also intensified the process of the disintegration of the Soviet Union. If the overall living standard of the Soviet people is no less than that of the United States, I think even if this conflict breaks out, it is unlikely to sweep across the entire Soviet Union."

Fang Mingyuan’s words are not without purpose. During the disintegration of the Soviet Union, other ethnic groups, such as the citizens of the three Baltic countries, believed that after joining the Soviet Union, their lives would be worse than before, and their living standards were almost the same as those of their neighboring countries in Northern Europe.

How can they balance their minds when they see their neighbors' living standards rising while they themselves are declining? The Russians are also angry about this, thinking that Russia has assumed too many obligations to other ethnic groups, which has caused this

Because the living standards of the Russian people have declined, it is unfair to suffer a loss and still have to be scolded. Therefore, since 1990, many media outlets in the Russian Republic have also issued calls for Russia to separate from other republics.

voice.

In a country like the Soviet Union, the media represents the official meaning to a large extent. As the main body of the Soviet Union, the top leaders of the Russian Republic, which is also the largest and most powerful country, have exposed this mentality. The disintegration of the Soviet Union,

It can be said that it is unexpected, but it is also reasonable.

Su Huandong and Fang Mingyuan talked in the study for a long time, from noon to night. After a hasty dinner, the two talked until late at night. That night, Fang Mingyuan stayed at Su's house. The next morning, they stayed

After driving to Su's house, he rushed to the Capital Airport. The affairs in Japan were not yet completed, and he had to rush back to Japan before Cameron returned to the United States and Aso Kasuki returned to the Soviet Union.

"I have said everything that can be said. Only God knows how much benefit the government can get from the disintegration of the Soviet Union, how much warning it can get, and whether it can be more enlightened than in previous lives!" Fang Mingyuan said in his heart.

Sighed longly.