Of course, Zhang Nan will not be an Internet celebrity in the future, and he will not take these photos to promote everywhere at that time: he is already a billionaire now, which is completely different from people who need to hype themselves, but he just feels that it is really fun to meet Lao Pu by chance!

As for Lao Pu coming to Berlin to travel with his wife, in Zhang Nan's opinion, this is quite normal, because Lao Pu is also a person with a wife and children, and this will make the KGB's income high!

Blindly save money without travel consumption?

You can do it!

Others don't know the income status of the mysterious KGB personnel, Zhang Nan is clear!

According to the regulations of the Council of Ministers of the USSR and the Ministry of Finance in 1985, the staff of the KGB of the USSR stationed in East Germany received two salaries. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 One is the official salary of the position (including basic salary and allowances), which is spent in the USSR and is paid in rubles.

The other was an allowance for the salary paid abroad in East Germany in the amount of 249% of the salary in domestic rubles, plus a food allowance of 85 East German marks per month.

In addition, if there are family members who do not work, they are entitled to a certain amount of allowance: DM 400 per month for one family member who does not work, and DM 650 for two.

That's a lot of money!

Some people say that in the later period of the Soviet Union, there was a shortage of living materials, and everything had to be queued, but if we really understand the actual situation of prices in the Soviet Union, it is estimated that the vast majority of people will like to live in the Soviet Union! Even if they need to queue, it doesn't matter, not to mention that the supply of materials in 87 will not be particularly tight.

Because around 1985, the cost of pork production in the USSR was about 3.25 rubles per kilogram, and the retail price was about 1.85 to 2 rubles per kilogram!

And between 85 and 8-9 years, prices were basically unchanged.

Yes, the retail price is lower than the cost!

Because the Soviet Union had a large price subsidy, the purchasing power of the ruble was extremely strong, although this would have required a queue to buy.

In 1985, the basic salary of a lieutenant colonel officer in the USSR was about 250 roubles, plus a duty allowance of 20 per cent of the basic salary, for a total of 300 roubles.

The monthly income of Lao Pu should be 300 rubles of domestic salary, 85 marks of food allowance, 747 rubles of foreign allowance, and 650 marks of allowance for two children who do not work (in 87 the exchange rate between the ruble and the East German mark was about 1:2), a total of 1415 rubles.

This was a high income in the Soviet Union, and the monthly salary of a Soviet minister at that time was only 900 rubles, and Lao Pu's income was more than the income of a minister!

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At 9:30 a.m. on September 8, an Airbus A320 medium passenger plane took off from West Berlin Airport.

Zhang Nan and the three of them checked their belongings last night and sent all the photos they had taken back to New York to eliminate all potential factors that could go wrong.

There were about 150 seats on the plane, but they weren't full at all, only half of them at most. There are still two Asian faces, speaking Russian, and Zhang Nan knows that they should be Soviets: a country of more than 100 nationalities, it is not surprising that there are any faces.

There is not a single minor in the composition of the passengers, and you can see the special nature of the passengers from this!

After Xiang Weirong got on the plane, he said to Zhang Nan: "There are probably more than ten special people among the seventy people, and they are all spies gathered for a meeting!"

Of course, even peers can't see the top spies, but some people who do this kind of work are actually semi-public, so they are relatively easy to recognize.

The whole flight lasted about two hours, and there were not many people chatting in the cabin, and most of the people who listened to the conversation spoke Russian, and many spoke German.

When the plane landed at Moscow's Sheremetyevo International Airport, the trio pulled their suitcases to the customs gate.

The uniforms of Soviet customs officers were similar to those of the army, and they were carefully checked: even the back cover of the camera had to be opened to check it.

Because of the thorough procedures, the customs did not embarrass this strange combination, and it was quite smooth.

However, after the customs section, Zhang Nan was reminded of a scene in the movie "Firefox": Clint Eastwood played an American pilot who entered the Soviet Union as a businessman, and the customs officer checked his carry-on luggage and turned out a semiconductor radio.

"You still want to use this to listen to your ridiculous shows?" -- These are the words of the customs officer.

The radio in the plot seems to have something else in it, but the inspectors in the movie don't see it, and in the end it is given to the "fake businessman" played by Eastwood.

Yesterday, Zhang Nan wanted to get a radio to try this section and see if the Soviet customs would embarrass him.

But that film was made by the Americans, and they definitely won't say good things about the Soviets, so it's better to forget about it.

After leaving the airport customs, changing rubles at a special window, you have to plan to go to the city of Moscow.

There are still more than 20 kilometers to Moscow, so you have to take a taxi.

"Brother Guan, let's go to the taxi stand later, and when we find a parked car, don't ask where to go first, just sit in and talk about it!"

"Why?"

Zhang Nan smiled and said, "Because I don't want you to think about killing!"

Now Guan Xingquan and Xiang Weirong feel strange, how can a car be associated with murder?

"Taxi drivers in Moscow are actually state civil servants, and it doesn't make much difference if they run more or less. If you ask him outside the car, some of them may not pay attention to you at all, whatever you ask! If you talk too much, you will scold people, especially since it is said that the attitude towards the Chinese people is very unfriendly, there is no way, the sequelae of more than 20 years of propaganda are very difficult to change, and the scolding will be very ugly!

This is one of the reasons, it is said that people in different countries have a different set of scolding, which will be a lot of people have suffered this loss!

It's hard for Zhang Nan to imagine what would happen in the end if an old Maozi dared to scold Brother Guan and his words were still very ugly!

"But as long as we sit in without saying hello, it's different. Because then we became passengers, and the drivers were obliged to get into work immediately, and their attitudes would be completely different. ”

Weird, right?

This would have been the case with the USSR.

Sure enough, at the taxi stand, I saw that all the passengers sat in the car without saying a word, and none of them asked questions first.

Zhang Nan and the three of them also sat in and talked about it!

"Go to the Moscow hotel on Manesh Square. As soon as he got into the car and sat down, Guan Xingquan said a simple word to the driver.

The driver put away the newspaper he was still reading, looked at the three Asian passengers, and pressed the meter to set off.

Moscow in the 80s was actually similar to East Berlin, only more prosperous. It's still early September, and although the weather is already cool, it's not cold, so it's one of the best seasons to visit.

There were a lot of cars and trams on the street, and those Soviets looked very confident! Zhang Nan really saw the last glory of this red empire with his own eyes!

I remember that once in my life, when I came back from a business trip, my colleague said to me: "Yesterday the Soviet Union was gone!"

It's hard to describe what it was like to be at that moment!

"The Soviet Union is gone, why is it gone?" This is probably the feeling of many Chinese people at that time.

I can't tell the inexplicable taste, the taste of that moment Zhang Nan remembers for a lifetime!

The people who could stay in the Moscow hotel on Manesh Square were not simple, they were either high-ranking Soviet officials or very rich guys, and the driver did not ask questions.

It was the first large hotel in the Soviet Union, built in the late 1930s, and its design was very different from other hotels: it was asymmetrical!

It looks weird.

Legend has it that the final design of the hotel was approved by Stalin himself: he was provided with two different façade designs, separated by a line and flanked by different renderings.

Stalin agreed, but his signature turned out to be pressed on this line!

It was a time of rebellion, and no one dared to ask Stalin for his specific opinion! So the architect applied the two designs to the same building.

Just like the building in front of Zhang Nan: the style on the right side is relatively simple, while there are a variety of decorative elements on the left, and the two sides are completely asymmetrical, wonderful!

I didn't make a reservation, but I was lucky, Zhang Nan still had the three suites he needed, but the price was very high: it was estimated that the price for domestic and foreign tourists was different.

Zhang Nan has lived in a room of $10,000 a day and doesn't care.

When you check in, you will see that the interior is very luxurious, full of the splendor that is unique to important Russian buildings.

However, Zhang Nan had only entered the room for a short time, and he was still storing his luggage, and Xiang Weirong and Guan Xingquan rushed to find him.

"Don't talk nonsense in there, there's listening. ”

Pulling Zhang Nan out of the room, Xiang Weirong reminded him in the aisle.

He was worried that Zhang Nan would talk nonsense when he called, because as the best hotel in the Soviet Union, international calls could still be made, at least through the United States.

"Is there a camera?" Zhang Nan asked: Do you want to take pictures of yourself taking a bath?

"I haven't found out yet, but it's absolute that the phone is being monitored, and there is also a listening microphone in the chandelier, so I'll go to your room with Xingquan and I to check it out later." ”

After explaining, the three of them returned to Zhang Nan's room, and finally found 6 hidden microphones in the entire suite, which really made people not know what to say!

There is no way, three people and two nationalities, needless to say in the United States, the relations between the Soviet Union and China in the past few years were tense to death!

Think about the Soviet-made Makarov whispering pistol that Guan Xingquan took out in Shanghai at the beginning, but it was the equipment of the Soviet special forces, and that thing could not be a friendly gift to Comrade Lao Guan at all!

Such a trio went to the best Moscow hotel in the whole of the Soviet Union, and the staff did not arrange such a special room for you.

"Forget it, don't change the hotel, if you change it, it is estimated that the KGB will have to keep up, so I will report to my family that I am safe. ”

It is estimated that the phone was also tapped, and the phone was simple and clear. As soon as the dozen passed, Nicole and the others would still be sleeping: "Honey, we just arrived in Moscow......"

The other end didn't say much, only mentioned that the courier had arrived, and didn't say anything secret - as previously warned: phone calls from the Soviet Union to the United States could be all tapped, and vice versa.

As for Huaxia's side, Nicole will contact to report safety.

After making the phone call, looking at the chandelier with a bug overhead, Zhang Nan muttered to himself in dialect: "Lao Tzu is not a spy, can he give me such a high salary?" (To be continued.) )