In Orthodox countries, Christmas is the second most important holiday after Easter.

Compared to Christmas in Western Catholicism, it is thirteen days later.

It's dictated by their messy calendars.

Since the conversion to Orthodox Christianity in Tsarist Russia a hundred years ago, Tsarist Russia celebrates Christmas on January 7 every year, and this custom has continued to the Soviet Union.

But the Soviet Union was a socialist country, and because Liening said that we should fight against religion, religion was suppressed during the Soviet era.

Especially during the Great Patriotic War, many clergy were forcibly conscripted into the army to go to the front, and churches were converted into field hospitals, feedlots, etc.

This is a huge blow to religion.

By the mid-eighties, the number of churches in the Soviet Union had dropped from nearly 80,000 to 7,500.

But when Gorbachev came to power, there was a huge loosening of this control.

In December 1990, the Supreme Soviet issued a decree designating Christmas as a public holiday, and in 1991 the Soviet Union officially celebrated Christmas in public.

This is the first time since 1928.

It was against this background that the Soviets had already begun to celebrate Christmas.

The supplies that Dimitri got back in China were for the benefit of the officers and soldiers for Christmas, and of course there were only officers and no soldiers.

About two-thirds of these goods were shipped according to the price standards of the Soviet Union.

The remaining one-third Dimitri obeyed the orders of the leader and took it to the market to exchange it for some cash.

What Dimitri didn't expect was that the remaining one-third of the supplies arrived on the market and were exchanged for more than 400,000 rubles in cash.

This is basically equivalent to the cost of this batch of goods.

Dimitri and his immediate boss felt as if a magical door had opened before their eyes.

It turns out that these materials are so valuable in the market that they can be sold for three times the price.

With this layer of reason, wouldn't it be a shabi for them to ask for another 500,000 rubles!

If you exchange these 500,000 rubles for supplies, you can sell them for 1 million rubles when you return to Komsomolsk.

Dimitri's boss immediately decided that not only were they ready to exchange all the remaining rubles for supplies, but they were also ready to continue this financial journey.

That's why Dimitri is here again in person.

Dimitri loves to ask for whatever he wants, anyway, for Wan Feng, whether it is goods, rubles or even Chinese currency, as long as he doesn't want rice dollars, because he doesn't have rice dollars either.

"What goods do you want, did you bring the manifest?"

"Just send me another one more according to the last manifest. ”

Wan Feng immediately instructed Zhang Zhiyuan to send another copy of the goods sent to Dimitri last time.

"Comrade Dimitry, even if you ask for goods, you won't come in person, right? You're not a small person, you won't pay attention to you when you go in and out of the KGB like this?"

A playful smile appeared on Dimitry's face: "How to say it, the current USSR ... Not to mention this, the KGB no longer has the spirit to care about all this mess, and pays attention to the affairs of Europe, and the Far East is now like an extralegal place in the Soviet Union. ”

This Wan Feng understands that the Soviet Union has begun to be chaotic, but now it is just the beginning, and the Soviet Union will be even more chaotic in two years.

"Comrade Wan, I came here for a purpose this time, we are ready to continue to do business with you in the future, and now we are ready to discuss the possibility with you. ”

Do they want to continue doing business with themselves?

Wan Feng was a little surprised.

"Yes, we will continue to work together if you want. ”

Wan Feng laughed self-deprecatingly.

Originally, he was going to start perfunctory old man, but he didn't expect to find him and force him to continue.

Is this luck or luck?

"Comrade Dimitri, I am a businessman, a businessman is mercenary, and if you want to do business, both sides must have the weight to take the shot. Energy and oil are not in the scope of trading, wood or anything is not interested in me yet, steel has been traded, I really can't think of anything else worth trading for you. ”

Dimitri smiled: "Comrade Wan, we can't get those civilian things even if you let us trade them, we don't have them, and what we have in our hands is something that is not available in the civilian market." ”

Wan Feng pretended to be confused: "I don't understand what you mean." ”

"It's the last time we traded. ”

"Dimitri, you mean arms?"

Dimitri nodded slightly.

"I was entrusted with the things last time, and I only acted when I needed them, but now no one is looking for me, and I can't get them even if you get a nuclear warhead!"

"That's your business, that's not something we're considering. We can get the rest except for nuclear warheads, as long as you're willing to trade. ”

Interpreting Dimitri's words, that is, in addition to nuclear weapons, whether they are born to fly in the water and swim on the ground, they can get it, what the hell does the other party do, there are so many channels?

"Dimitri, can I understand that you are bragging? As far as I know, the land, sea, and air forces of all countries are not one system, and you can get the land, sea, and air forces? I don't believe it a little! Besides, if I ask for the Kuznetsov aircraft carrier, you can also get it?"

"That's too big to get it. ”

"Look, it's still bragging. ”

"Except for things that are too big like warships and airplanes, it's not that they can't be figured out, but they are too ostentatious to cover up. Anything else is fine except for these big things, and as for whether it's a bragging or not is our business, you don't have to worry about asking. ”

Also, people can only get what you want, you don't care if others brag or not, he just blew the cow to death and what is about himself.

"Dimitri, you and the people behind you have thought about it, this is a traitorous act, aren't you afraid that one day you will be liquidated by the state?"

"Alas!" Dimitri sighed.

It is rare for the Soviets to sigh, Wan Feng has dealt with Shamilov countless times, but he has never seen him sigh.

"How can we not know what we are doing? But the Soviet Union, a mighty empire, now we can't see its future. Comrade Wan, we are in the military and our rank is not low, and we know many things that ordinary people simply do not know. The reason why we dare to do such a blatant thing is because... There are some things that you foreigners can't understand. It's not interesting to say this, but back to the transaction itself, do you dare to take our deal?"

Judging from Dimitry's desire to speak, these Soviet servicemen also knew some of the predicament of the Soviet Union.

The terrible thing is that they also have a gloomy psychology about the future of the Soviet Union, and the Soviet Union is really finished.

Since Dimitri knew what he was doing, it meant that he should have no scruples.

The other party is not afraid, he has nothing to fear.

"So Dimitri, now what chips are you going to come up with to make a deal. ”

Dimitri asked for a piece of paper and a pen and wrote something down with a brush.