"Do you know what the nature of finance is?"

"Yes...... Issuance, circulation and withdrawal of money?"

"What is the essence of money? How can a small piece of paper be exchanged for real money from someone else?"

"Because ......"

"Because the sovereign currency of the world today is guaranteed by the credit of a country, so that it can perform its function as a general equivalent. ”

"The reason why the Soviet ruble is worthless today is because the Soviet Union has disappeared. Sovereignty no longer exists, let alone a currency secured by sovereign credit. ”

In other words, the financial order of any country is, in the final analysis, a manifestation of the confidence of those who hold currency. ”

"So you get it? There are two ways to make sure that the pound and the mark remain in a safe range. One is to increase the confidence of the holders of the pound in the UK, and the other is to reduce the confidence of the holders of the mark in Germany. ”

"From the actions of the Americans in the Gulf War, I have come to a clear sense. ”

"In the financial field, playing with numbers, capital, and information is not as useful as playing with guns. ”

……

A long URAL5323 of full-drive off-road military trucks, under the command of the military police, were slowly and orderly entering the anchorage port of the Baltic Fleet in Kaliningrad.

The Ural 5323 all-wheel drive off-road truck was the main model of 8×8 transport in the Soviet Army. Its excellent passing performance and strong load capacity make people really like it from the bottom of their hearts when it comes to military vehicles alone. However, for today's Russia, it has to stop a large number of similar models, and even throw some into the large forests of Siberia and leave them to fend for themselves, artificially creating a series of military vehicle cemeteries, tank cemeteries, and aircraft cemeteries.

The reason for this is actually quite simple. Soviet military equipment often has excellent performance but high fuel consumption, and in the hands of today's Russians, it is impossible to even get diesel fuel to drive military vehicles. In this way, I can't afford to use it and can't afford to raise it, and no one dares to use it because of the reputation I want to sell, so I have to throw it into the deep mountains and old forests, and no one wants to collect waste.

Against this background, one can imagine what kind of uproar would be caused when such a long convoy sailed into the base of the Baltic Fleet.

"Assemble! Assemble! Assemble!"

With the shouts of the officers, the dilapidated and desolate barracks suddenly burst into an uproar. One by one, the sailors of the Baltic Fleet wearing sea soul shirts rushed out of the barracks dormitory.

"Cheer me up, boys!"

Vice Admiral Kosov, commander of the Baltic Fleet, was a competent professional soldier, and he always did a pretty good job.

Even in the face of the collapse of the USSR, his authority within the Baltic Fleet remained unshakable. When he stood in front of all the officers and men of the fleet base, the entire phalanx was silent except for the sound of the sea lapping on the shore.

"45 years ago, the USSR liberated Kaliningrad from Nazi Germany. Since then, the Baltic Fleet has been holding the sea border for the Motherland for half a century here. ”

"The three Baltic countries are leaving, and we will not stop them. However, as long as the Baltic Fleet is still in place, Kaliningrad will always belong to Russia! If someone is not willing to serve as a Russian soldier, he can apply for retirement now, which is also an option. ”

Lieutenant General Kosov said this and waited a little longer. On the huge playground, no one stood up to oppose it at this time.

This is not surprising, since the officers and men of the fleet have heard about the current situation in Russia after the collapse of the Soviet Union. And relatively speaking, the days of the Baltic Fleet are quite passable.

The ones in the fleet who really wanted to leave had already run out, and the only ones left behind were Russians who wanted to go and didn't know where to go, so they could only stiffen up with Vice Admiral Kosov, waiting for Yeltsin to remember them.

"Since there is no objection, there is no doubt that the Baltic Fleet is still under the command of the Russian army. Then as the commander of the fleet, I will now give you an order in the name of the motherland!"

Kosov's gaze slowly scanned these young faces from left to right: "Under the order of the Russian Ministry of Defense, the Baltic Fleet will be dispatched to the west to conduct live-fire exercises in the Baltic Sea and North Sea regions!"

"Now, all of them, board!"

Before the officers and men of the Baltic Fleet could react, Kosov had already given a specific order. With his order, under the command and coordination of the officers, the soldiers began to run towards their respective warship berths with a bewildered face.

At this time, the military vehicles loaded with supplies had also driven to the side of the warship. They lifted their canvas skins, revealing the stuffed supplies inside. Then one crane after another, began to methodically deliver supplies to the warship, and it was obvious that these supplies had been planned for a long time.

"Commander, we ...... Is it really necessary to carry out the orders of the Moscow side?"

Although the chief of staff of the Kharlamov fleet was wearing a straightforward military uniform, his expression could not hide his worry: "Entering the North Sea to conduct a live-fire exercise is a provocation against the West, right?

After receiving the detailed statistical documents on fleet rearmament from Kharlamov's hand, Kosov shook his head slightly: "The Americans are in the middle of a general election, and Bush has not won the number of electors for consecutive terms, and the Americans will not be able to make a positive response until the new president is elected." As for NATO's naval forces in the North Sea and the Baltic Sea, the Baltic Fleet, although it is a defensive fleet, has not yet been put into account. ”

"But after all, this is too risky, what if NATO sends out its air force? What if Britain and France make an overreaction?"

Kosov sighed and suddenly interrupted Kharlamov's words: "Kharsha, do you think we have a choice? The facts are already very clear, we have fallen into the trap of the Americans. What is the situation in Moscow in November, you should be clear. The aid promised by Western countries is far away, but the snowflakes in the sky will not be delayed for a moment. ”

"Yeltsin has been secretly negotiating with NATO since before October. Although NATO promised to provide an aid plan of $3 billion, because the distribution of this money was not negotiated, as a result, it has been more than two months, and so far Moscow has not seen a single dollar. The Americans can wait, the British, the French can wait, but we can't wait. ”

"If they don't understand the language at the negotiating table, we can only speak to them in a language that the Russians are better at. ”

True, the truth is as Kosov said. By the time of November, Yeltsin was at the end of his rope.

The Russian economy has always been in disarray, and the ruble is depreciating faster than ever before. The total collapse caused by shock therapy coincided with the Moscow winter. One can imagine what a terrible scene it would be.

The two poles of the world, the Russians were nationals of the developed countries last winter. But this winter, freezing to death is no longer news.

It should be said that the situation in Russia today is only worse than the situation after the collapse of the Soviet Union. The first was the great retreat of the CPSU from the Far East, which basically wiped out the floating wealth of the Soviet Union in Moscow.

There was little gold left, the secret program of the KGB, the technical backbone of the Salyut factory, and even the household registration data of the whole Soviet Union. What was left for Yeltsin was almost a boiling pot of more than 140 million pieces of the puzzle. To regain control of the country called Russia, he needs to have the ability to put this 100 million people back together. But first, he had to cool down the boiling puzzle pieces.

I'm afraid it's not hellish difficulty......

But since he sat in this position, Yeltsin had no choice but to bite the bullet. Stabilizing the economy of Russia and restoring order to society is the first step in cooling the pot. And to clean up this mess from scratch, it is absolutely impossible to have no money.

In Russia's negotiations with the United States and NATO, Yeltsin "persuaded" Western countries to promise to provide Russia with an interest-free loan of $3 billion in the form of bargaining chips such as the disarmament of nuclear weapons, disarmament, and structural reform.

But as a common defense organization, NATO is inherently inherently inefficient outside of war. Coupled with the deliberate delay and ridicule in some quarters, no plan has been adopted by the member states on how to bear the three billions.

Dragged around like this, snowflakes were already falling in the sky of Moscow. As the capital of Russia, Moscow does not have an adequate supply of fuel, not enough food reserves, and even a supply of electricity. When the first snow fell, there was a mass freezing death in Moscow.

And at this time, Schernin, who had retreated to the Far East, actually killed a horse pistol. With the support of China's Su-27 project, the situation in the Far East is much better. The CPSU not only fought Yeltsin in the newspapers, but also brandished NEMART coupons and poached scientific research institutes and cutting-edge enterprises in Moscow.

Although life in the Far East was quite difficult, it was much better than the situation in Moscow. If you are not afraid of ignorance, you are afraid of comparing goods, and with such an opposition, the dissatisfaction of the entire European part of Russia with Yeltsin is already a volcano about to erupt.

If Yeltsin can't find a way to stabilize the domestic economy, the citizens of Moscow can carry him into the Kremlin with tanks, and the word dead will be more than just an adjective.

As a last resort, Yeltsin had already pooled all the resources he could capture,

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