"Mass meetings were held in Moscow, Leningrad and a number of other cities. The Gorbachev government announced a ban on marches in the capital and sent troops into Moscow (estimates of the number of troops are between 50,000 and 70,000). A large number of military vehicles, including armored personnel carriers, blocked the city center. ”

"Coal miners' strikes spread throughout the Soviets, with miners demanding the resignation of President Gorbachev, and mass strikes even hit Belarus. ”

"The whole country is in a slippery slope, and the central power is powerless......."

"There were long queues at the gates of the state-run outlets, all the shops were filled with empty shelves, and the severe shortage of supplies prompted the prices of black market goods to rise one after another. ”

"According to undisclosed statistics, the shutdown rate of Russian state-owned enterprises has reached 30 percent, and with the closure of enterprises, people have fallen into unemployment on a large scale. ”

"According to observational statistics, the crime rate in Moscow, Russia's largest city, and Leningrad, the second largest city in Russia, have recently increased several times year-on-year. ”

"Ethnic conflicts led to bloodshed, large-scale armed clashes broke out on the borders of Ukraine and Belarus. ”

"Leningrad is the largest industrial city in Russia, and the recent large-scale shutdown of enterprises has forced employees to leave the factories to earn a living, and countless pedestrians in factory uniforms can be seen frowning in the streets, which reflects like a mirror, reflecting the gloomy situation and crisis of the entire Soviet power"

According to the political economist Vasily, the current crisis in the economic and socio-political structure of the Soviets has led to the erosion of ideological and moral values, and if the problem of corruption is not solved as soon as possible, it will become the fuse for the sinking of the country.

"On April 9, the Government of Georgia issued a declaration of independence and withdrew from the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics......."

“......”

In the office, Shen Jiannan flipped through all the newspapers and closed his eyes gently.

Georgia became independent, which meant that the USSR took another big step on the road to disintegration.

The wheels of the general trend have already started, and under the impetus of public opinion, the behemoth of the Soviet Union, will only continue to advance along the previous trajectory.

No one could stop the Soviet Union from moving towards its grave.

That's a good thing.

On April 4, 1949, the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Denmark, Norway, Iceland, and Portugal signed the North Atlantic Treaty in Washington.

That is, the so-called NATO.

In 1955, the NATO alliance absorbed West Germany into NATO.

In order to counter NATO and maintain the central position of the Soviets among the Warsaw Pact countries, the Warsaw Pact countries established a Council for Mutual Economic Assistance against this background.

The member countries are 9+3, namely the Soviet Union, Albania, Bulgaria, Hungary, the GDR, Poland, Romania, Czechoslovakia, Huaxia and three observer countries, Vietnam, Laos and Mongolia.

Among them, Huaxia entered the Warsaw Pact in 1956, but was unfortunately kicked out by Big Brother in 1961.

The Economic Mutual Cooperation Association is an association of economic mutual assistance treaty countries, and there will inevitably be international trade problems within such contract countries, and it will also inevitably face the problem of foreign exchange settlement.

In order to solve this problem, the system of transferring rubles was introduced at the end of the sixties.

It is equivalent to that the countries of the economic and trade fair have a foreign trade account, and the "transfer ruble" is used as the unit of account for settlement.

In other words, in terms of circulation, the ruble itself cannot actually be considered a pure currency.

It should be called the book-entry ruble.

Because in the Warsaw Pact, the entire economic system is non-commoditized, and the implementation of a planned economy is carried out.

As in the Soviet Union, the institutes, factories, bureaus, ministries, and production complexes relied on the budget and the assessment of budget savings.

The state-run economy procures materials from the Planning Commission in the form of a planned price through the budget, and the people need various bills in addition to rubles when purchasing materials.

You need a cloth ticket to buy cloth, you need a bread ticket to buy bread, and you even need a theater ticket to watch a play.

And even going to the bank to withdraw money is subject to serious restrictions.

Each person withdraws money in state-owned banks every day, the upper limit is 500 rubles, and there are long queues.

Money, rubles.

Its monetary properties are severely limited.

Even circulation within the territory of the Soviet Union was severely restricted.

If you want to play capital operation in such a capital control country, the gods can't do it.

It is impossible to make a dime in such a place.

But with the successive independence of various countries, the current communal economy of the Soviet Union will undergo a fundamental change.

Democracy, freedom.

Under the people's pursuit of democracy and freedom, the wealth accumulated and plundered by the Soviet Union with powerful force will be securitized and capitalized, and in democracy and freedom, the ruble, the native currency of the Soviet Union, will become a real negotiable currency.

By that time......

"Bang bang bang!"

There was a knock on the office door.

Shen Jiannan opened his eyes and shouted.

"Come in. ”

A girl in a professional suit walked in.

Li Jiaxin.

Lu Shu's clerk recruited in Hong Kong.

Twenty-five or sixteen years old, with an average appearance, but he is sincere and down-to-earth.

She pushed open the door respectfully.

"Boss. There was a Mr. Robert John who came for an interview. ”

"Let him in!!"

Two minutes later, an old white man in his fifties walked to the door of the office under the guidance of Li Jiaxin.

That's right, it's the old man.

Although Robert was actually only fifty years old.

But with his white hair and fat body, one has to wonder about his real age.

Thankfully, he's in good spirits.

Wearing a nice suit with a blue tie.

There is also a trace of the temperament of a financial elite.

Of course, a trace is a trace.

That huge belly is too hard to see in the financial industry.

Shen Jiannan helplessly vomited in his heart.

Sure enough, it's cheap and not good.

This kind of bad old man, no wonder only has an annual salary of 300,000 Hong Kong dollars.

"Bang bang!"

At Shen Jiannan's beckoning, Robert John walked into the office.

After the two shook hands, they quickly got to the point.

Very simple inquiry.

For Shen Jiannan, in fact, it is only Robert's identity that he likes.

The British, in Hong Kong and even in the world, are relatively easy to use, and it is also very useful to use them as agents.

As for the question of capacity, that's not a problem at all.

Since you are qualified to work at Standard Chartered Bank and are bilingual in English and Chinese, this is enough.

"As you can see, our company is a very young company, and the company is very powerful, and the current capital under management is 100 million US dollars. ”

“......”

"What we need at the moment is a general manager, and Mr. Robert's qualifications are not a problem. ”

“......”

After casually talking about future development, Shen Jiannan put down the resume in his hand and asked.

"Mr. John, I wonder if you have any other questions?"

"On the payroll side. ”

“......”

“......”

"Any other questions?"

Of course not.

Hong Kong is a British colony, and Robert John has other problems if he can leave the bitter cold of China and keep his salary the same.

"Welcome to Tianyi!"

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