Soviet Union 1991

After Hungary and Poland successively released harsh words, their unlucky days soon followed. First, there was a series of foreign trade actions in the international community recently. A series of Western European countries such as France and Germany united and put Hungary, which is rich in Eastern European beef cattle, on the blacklist on the grounds of detecting export foot-and-foot disease. Poland did not escape the tragedy. As a country with the largest steel production, Poland's steel was forcibly increased by 10% tariff by other Western European countries. This means that Poland's industrial products will be unsalable in large quantities, which is a heavy blow to people's lives.

During this period, news about Poland and Hungary was rampant. First, the Hungarian Minister of National Development resigned because of his involvement in a bribery scandal. Secondly, the boss of a company that sold problematic beef cattle to Western Europe owed a large debt because of ** and eventually jumped into the river to commit suicide. Although most of the news seems to be insignificant, it is very interesting to read them together.

It's like someone set up a lot of traps, and the Hungarians jumped into them willingly. As for Poland, the script is almost the same. Those who have woken up know that European and American countries are ready to take action. Except for Poland, which still has a tough attitude of "if you have the guts, come and fight me", Hungary has gone from being very noisy at the beginning to being silent later.

If meat is not exported, it means the closure of factories and companies, workers will be laid off, and the economy will decline. The domino effect caused by this has forced Hungary to consider the trade barriers set up before.

However, the sanctions from Europe and the United States are far from over. Starting from beef cattle, they have slowly expanded to other agricultural and sideline products. Since Hungary is mainly based on animal husbandry and agricultural and sideline products, the United States will specifically restrict or even cut off Hungary's financial resources.

The atmosphere in the presidential office is very dull. Arpad sits on the sofa and smokes. I don't know how long the silence in the office has lasted. The ashtray is already full of cigarette butts. Arpad is now facing the worst situation. It can almost be said that he is deserted by everyone. The impulse at the beginning also made Arpad pay a heavy price.

The current situation is whether to reconcile with Europe and the United States? The answer is yes.

"Why don't we try to seek dialogue with the United States? This is not a solution. We have only sanctioned one or two products in Europe, but they can easily destroy our entire industry." German Prime Minister Gyula replied. The current situation in Hungary is already ugly enough. If they don't try to please the Americans, the anti-dumping bills alone will probably block the Hungarians.

"And let the domestic unemployment rate continue to rise?" Arpad raised his head and said with a wry smile.

"Then do you think the unemployment rate will not soar now? Look at our current situation, Arpad, what do bad trade barriers bring us? It's a disaster. Their joint anti-dumping strategy can hit Hungary's economy again, and then our society will really change."

It's as uncomfortable as choosing to wait for death slowly or choosing sudden death.

After a short dispute, they fell into a silent atmosphere again, and the atmosphere was so depressing that it made people uncomfortable. Arpad stood up and walked to the window to open it, trying to dispel the smell of smoke and the atmosphere of despair in the house.

"Let's surrender. It's impossible to win again. Germany restricts our meat trade today, and tomorrow they can restrict financial trade. The day after tomorrow they can directly use the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank to restrict our loans. Then Hungary will be finished." Arpad clenched his fists and said bitterly. Although he was full of anger now, he couldn't attack the Western countries. At least he had to leave some hope for Hungarian national enterprises.

"Weak countries really have no chance to survive and develop."

Hungary began to release a message of reconciliation to Europe. First of all, Arpad hoped that the two sides could reach an understanding through dialogue, but German Chancellor Kohl did not give them such an easy opportunity to reconcile. He directly stated in the dialogue with the Hungarian Prime Minister that unless Hungary is willing to show due sincerity, they will lift restrictions on Hungarian industries.

The so-called "sincerity" includes government tax exemptions for European and American multinational groups, preferential policies when acquiring local companies, and even the right to get involved in some industries that are the lifeblood of the national economy. This time, Western countries did not even want to cover up the hypocritical fig leaf, and directly showed the shameless face of robbers. This is simply asking Hungary to hand over the entire country to the multinational corporations, and only then will the Western countries be happy.

At this time, French President Chirac also tried to get involved. He tactfully expressed that France was willing to lend money to the Hungarian government, but it must be mortgaged with other state-owned enterprises. The French who tried to grab food from the World Bank were also very helpless. If it were not for this global economic crisis, he would not have touched the American cake.

However, Prime Minister Gyula said no very firmly. Everything that happened before had made him more cautious. How could the French with bad intentions let them repay the loan smoothly? Chirac's goal was to control Hungary's economy and become the last straw to bring down the pillar industry.

If Prime Minister Gyula's previous tolerance was for Hungary's future, his current anger is also for Hungary's destiny. Faced with the arrogance of the EU, even Prime Minister Gyula couldn't bear it. He wanted to push Hungary to death. In order to retaliate against the actions of Western countries, Prime Minister Gyula immediately declared war.

The first thing he did was to forcefully take back all newspapers, taking the first step to control public opinion. All economic newspapers that were originally controlled by Western multinational groups were brought back to their original form. He was originally a national leader who was born in Hungary. He was certainly good at controlling public opinion. First, he passed a bill prohibiting companies with multinational group backgrounds from acquiring local newspapers, thus cutting off the other party's public opinion propaganda position in disguise. It is the government that has increased its monitoring of newspaper content. Once it is found that it promotes Western multinational groups, the editors and reporters will be held accountable. These tough measures that went against the rules of the market directly stunned Mercedes-Benz, which had acquired the local newspaper. Even the president of Daimler Group was outraged by the Hungarian government's actions.

This does not follow the market economy at all! It’s simply a dictatorship, ****!

The representative of the multinational group who originally wanted to talk to the government was directly prevaricated. Gyula said that I am a party member born in Hungary, and I don’t care about your Western practices.

I can tolerate your previous misdeeds, but I will never condone your repeated provocations against the Hungarian government.

Because this is Hungary and I have the final say.

"The acquisition of the newspaper severely suppressed the arrogance of the multinational groups, and also warned the government behind them not to try to control our country." Arpad said, "Hungary's economy is not good, but the IQ of the top management is still there. We are not stupid enough to rely on Western multinational groups to ride on our necks to control the entire country's economy."

"The words have been left here. If you have any other dealings with them, the government officials should die early to convince us. If we don't take action, Hungary will really be finished. I would rather offend the West than Being a sinner of our nation, do you have anything to add?”

The secret meeting focused on the Presidential Palace in Budapest was almost all ministerial-level figures. Although no one dared to say no after hearing Arpad’s words, Arpad gave them a warning that Hungary does not intend to follow Europe’s lead. That set of rules is here to play, and they shouldn't try to interfere with it, otherwise they will be careful of punishment.

This is almost a break with the Western world. Now Hungary is done with its happiness. It must either wait for a new round of economic retaliation or find ways to seek new life now. Western European countries are certainly not the only ones that can trade, although meat consumption and daily necessities consumption in developed countries account for the vast majority. If it relies solely on the consumption of people in Germany, France, the United States, the United Kingdom and other countries, Hungary will be finished sooner or later.

Just when Arpad looked helpless, the Soviet Union quietly came to the door, preparing to give Hungary a surprise. (To be continued.)