Chapter 31: The Second Ark
Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe has undergone drastic changes. The world has changed from a bipolar power www.biquge.info a monopole dominated by the United States. Some people think that the collapse of the USSR is a good thing.
Because the cloud of war that has hung over mankind for decades and the atmosphere of the Cold War, which has lasted for more than 40 years, have finally eased.
And many Eastern European countries were able to get out of the Soviet Union's bloodbath, such as the GDR, Poland, the Czech Republic, and the like.
After they left the unified administration of the Soviet Union, the social structure developed even more, the productive forces began to rise rapidly, and the quality of life of the people continued to rise.
But not many Eastern European countries benefited from the collapse of the Soviet Union, especially when the Soviet Union coordinated its industrial program.
Eastern Europe and countries close to Western Europe are mainly responsible for heavy industry and high-tech research and development, and countries such as Ukraine in southern Europe have undertaken shipbuilding because of their access to the sea and rely on the rich land resources of southern Europe to become the big breadbasket of the Soviet Union.
The advantage of an integrated plan is that it is possible to develop a production structure that is very much in line with local development conditions in the right places.
And once the implementers of the overall plan collapsed, many independent Eastern European countries, because of the planning of the Soviet era, became a deformed child walking on his feet.
There are even countries that are born underdeveloped and unable to even be self-sufficient.
For example, Georgia, a small Eastern European country linked to Eurasia. Because of the territorial dispute with Russia, there has never been quiet here.
The country's total output in a year is not comparable to that of a division of Stark Industries.
Nearly one-half of the country's population earns less than $80 a month, and nearly half of the country's population lives below the poverty line.
Ivan Vanko is one of them, Ivan has to work hard every day, because he has a father, Anton Vanke.
An amazing scientist, at least once was. Now Anton is just a bad old man who is obsessed with alcohol and the glory of the past.
This old man did not bring Ivan much of a good life, but was a drag on Ivan.
During his time in American captivity, Anton suffered a lot, and his dexterous hands were abolished because he was a Soviet.
Hell, he ran to the United States because he couldn't stand Stalin's rule.
"How does it feel, old ghost. Ivan returned home and said to Anton, who was lying on the bed gasping. Now Anton is very old, so old that he can't afford to hold a bottle and drink heavily.
"Also.. Maybe... I'm going to see God soon. Anton's words were weak, and he felt that his life was coming to an end.
"You will not go to God, you will only go to the devil for the sins you have done. Although Ivan said this, he still went to help cover Anton's quilt.
It was still very cold in Georgia in March.
Ivan's house was not big, he had a very bright brain, but he did not go to school.
All his knowledge comes from the teachings of his father, Anton Vanke.
Georgia did not have a place where this knowledge would be used, and they needed warriors more in the war with Russia.
So Ivan was a soldier in Georgia who fought each other with the Russians on the front line.
The mottled and old TV looked old, and the broken logo indicated that it was a product of the former Soviet era.
Ivan turned on the TV and tuned to the news channel. He likes to work while listening to the news.
His workbench was nowhere near as luxurious as Tony Stark's, and his tools were unusually rudimentary. It looks like a blacksmith's workbench, not a scientist's.
The news of Stark Group is playing on TV again. Every time this kind of news is broadcast, Anton gets excited.
"Great times are coming, the Stark Group's brand new plan, the lunar development program is about to begin!" Tony Stark on TV was brilliant.
"A liar. Ivan spat hard, but his work didn't stop.
There were no pretty blueprints on his workbench, just rough sketches of manuscript paper and pencil.
But what he makes is not rough at all.
"He and his father are liars, and they stole your creative old Anton. Ivan looked back at Anton, who was trembling on the bed.
"Without the materials you brought with us from the Soviet Union, Stark would not have conceived and designed the reactor. But they deprive you of everything. At the same time, it deprived me of everything. "Ivan has very sharp hands and feet.
"We are a country that is weak and poor. I've never tried to live a truly meaningful life in years. "Ivan is already middle-aged, and he's actually about the same age as Tony Stark.
But the lack of burdens in life made him look twenty years older than his actual age.
"Father and son are going to pay the price soon, and I'm going to make Stark Industries a disaster. Ivan pulled out a box from inside his clothes.
It is a small box cast from lead, and when the box is opened, several small metal strips are placed inside.
The metal bar does not look special, just like an ordinary iron wire, but it is made in a special way.
When Ivan stuffed a tiny strip of metal into a proposed module, he activated it.
The dark blue light began to slowly emanate, from dark to bright. It's an ark reactor, maybe not as beautiful as the one Tony made, and not as powerful as the one Tony made.
But Ivan succeeded, and the world's second miniature ark reactor was born in his hands.
The faint blue light reflected Ivan's cheeks, full of vicissitudes, and he had an indescribable smile on his face.
The familiar light shone into Anton's eyes, and he said with the last bit of strength he exerted. "You, where did you get the palladium? ”
High-purity palladium is not cheap and very difficult to buy, and Georgia, a small country, does not even have a company that specializes in rare metals.
Most of all precious and rare metals rely on imports, where did Ivan get his palladium?
This is not palladium, which is used as an ornament, but the real element palladium.
"You don't need to ask me if I'm old Anton who got these things from the place, you just need to know that the day of our revenge is coming. There was a madness in Ivan's face.
"Iron Man, Stark Industries. And the arrogant and ignorant Yankees, the guys who look down on me. I'll show them who the important characters are in this world. ”
"Moon Development Program, Tony Stark, go for your big spring and autumn dreams!" (To be continued.) )