The demise of the Soviet Union was a foregone conclusion, and the upheavals in Eastern Europe accelerated, and after Lithuania was the first to declare independence last year, the other thirteen countries that had been waiting for a whole year, or still had hopes for the Soviet Union, declared their independence in the face of such a chaotic economic situation.

On December 16, 1991, Kazakhstan, the last state of the Soviet Union, declared its independence.

At this point, the huge Soviet Union, a former superpower, existed in name only.

Li Yadong knows very well that there are only a few days left before the death knell of the collapse of the Soviet Union is sounded.

For nearly a year, he stayed in this country, worked hard, and lived in a simple place almost like an ascetic, during which he encountered a life and death crisis, and he paid a lot.

Of course, the harvest is also remarkable.

Even more than he could have imagined.

He has already used his trade routes to ship $28 billion into the country.

Yes, a full $28 billion.

His Tu-154C cargo plane, pulled fifteen trips!

No way, the maximum load capacity of the aircraft is only twenty tons.

And 100 million US dollars, and all of them are 100 yuan in face value, there is more than a ton.

What is the concept of $28 billion?

A number that scares people to death!

Li Yadong even had to carefully disguise and plan in advance to let the plane land at a small airport in the northeast, and then let Jiang Tengfei and Tian Sanshi personally handle it before they dared to transport the money back to China.

He never thought of flying to the capital's airport with the money.

But do you think that this wealth is all he harvested in the USSR?

Not.

Even this money, just a small head.

Don't forget, he also used the Soviet people's own money to buy a lot of paid state bonds, and his goal of buying state bonds is clear, there is only one direction, that is, energy.

Leaving aside the small fights or small Soviet companies, the biggest piece of the cake he worked hard to run was the Yukos Oil Company.

It is the largest oil company in Russia, employing nearly 200,000 people and producing 1.7 million barrels of crude oil per day, accounting for one-tenth of Russia's crude oil production.

And he now owns 61.5% of the oil giant.

What does this mean?

It means that this company is his, and he has an absolute controlling stake.

This is the biggest gain of Li Yadong's trip to the Soviet Union.

As we all know, the energy industry is the lifeblood of the entire Russian economy, and more than half of Russia's fiscal revenue depends on the energy industry.

Yukos oil is a cash cow, and every year in the future, it will bring at least billions of dollars of wealth to Li Yadong.

Until one day in the future, it was recovered by the Portuguese Emperor.

This is inevitable, Li Yadong has been prepared in his heart, a wise national government, it is impossible to let the economic lifeline be in the hands of foreigners.

But it doesn't matter, by that time, Li Yadong would have already made a lot of money.

Besides, the Russian government wants to recycle Yukos oil, can it do it without paying a price?

He is not a citizen of his own country, and he is at the mercy of the Russian government.

It can be said that so far, with his net worth, he has been able to rank in the top 20 of the Forbes world's richest list.

When it comes to cash flow, what about ......

The richest man in the world?

After experiencing some things, Li Yadong suddenly realized that this name was just a joke.

The world is far from being as simple as the average person knows.

With a net worth of tens of billions of dollars, can you become the richest man in the world?

We were all too naïve.

Or that the world is too dark.

What we can see is what some people want us to see.

Who is the real richest man in the world, he doesn't want you to know, you can't know in your life.

If nothing else, let's just say that the Vantaa gang, Li Yadong controlled one bank and amassed so much wealth in the Soviet Union, what about their fourteen banks?

Li Yadong is about clear about this number, because he is also involved in the operation of these fourteen banks, but he doesn't want to say it, and he himself will be scared if he says it.

And will this huge wealth really be fully charged to the US treasury?

Who believes?

Anyway, Li Yadong didn't believe it.

Of course, one thing is for sure, it is not as much as the legendary twenty-seven trillion.

Selling the entire USSR is estimated to be worth so much money, unrealistic.

December 23, 1991, the first two days of Christmas.

A major event occurred in the Soviet Union, better than the August 19 coup.

On this day, Yeltsin came to the Kremlin and held eight-hour talks with Gorbachev, demanding that he hand over the supreme command of the armed forces, the "ultimate button" for launching 27,000 nuclear warheads, and the Kremlin presidential palace.

Gorbachev, who had already lost the momentum, was forced to hand over some precious confidential materials to Yeltsin after Yeltsin assured that he would enjoy preferential treatment after his resignation, including state dachas, cars, and security personnel.

On 24 July, Gorbachev held a farewell meeting with his staff, including Yakovlev and Shevardnadze.

A regime has come to an end.

Twenty-fiveth, Christmas.

Gorbachev signed his last presidential decree: resign from the post of Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces and transfer control of the Armed Forces and the "nuclear button" to Yeltsin.

At seven o'clock in the evening, Gorbachev made a speech in the presidential office, facing the cameras, to the entire territory of the Soviet Union and the whole world, and resigning from the presidency of the Soviet Union -

"In view of the situation that developed after the formation of the Commonwealth of Independent States, I cease my activities as President of the USSR. This decision was taken on the basis of principle. I firmly advocate the independence of the peoples of all nationalities and the sovereignty of the republic, and at the same time I advocate the preservation of the Union State and the preservation of the integrity of the State. However, the situation is developing along a different path, and the policy of dismemberment and secession prevails, and I cannot agree with that. I am also disturbed by the loss of the nationality of a large country by our people, which can have very heavy consequences for all. ”

Gorbachev's expression was very serious, but he ended his speech with an optimistic prediction.

"I am confident that sooner or later our joint efforts will bear fruit and that our people will live in a prosperous and democratic society. ”

In Li Yadong's view, the ending sentence was only said under pressure from Yeltsin.

And the above paragraph should be Gorbachev's heart.

It can be seen that he does not want the collapse of the Soviet Union, and can only say that he has more than enough heart but not enough strength, and his ability is not enough to preserve the Soviet Union.

Comrade Lao Ye got his wish and ascended to the highest throne in Russia.

And the Soviet Union, so far became history.