As long as he thinks of those things in China, Yang Weiping can't help but feel an inexplicable annoyance.

When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, the republics sought independence and had new flags and constitutions. At that time, the Far Eastern Military District was also preparing for the creation of an independent Far Eastern Republic in accordance with Lenin's plan before his death, and even prepared the flag of the "Far Eastern Republic" and the draft constitution.

Then, for various reasons, this plan was not realized in the end. According to the gossip that Yang Weiping heard back then, it was said that Huaxia was not enthusiastic about this and had no intention of supporting it.

If the Far East becomes independent, then Russia is completely stripped out of Asia. China's absolute superiority in Asia has been formed. Moreover, it will be easy for Huaxia to obtain minerals from the Far East, because Huaxia will undoubtedly be the largest and only buyer of the Far Eastern Republic in terms of geographical location and purchasing power.

In addition, the Far Eastern Republic lacks a perfect industrial system, and the light and heavy industries are relatively underdeveloped, so it can become a dumping ground for "Made in China" products......

For the Russian-led CIS, the independence of the Far East did not weaken Russia much as a whole. Because most of Russia is really in the European part. In the last life, Russia adopted a policy of hanging the Far East, not letting it starve to death, not feeding it, anyway, one thing was to not give you the opportunity to develop and grow, lest it form an independent force.

As a result of the "hollowing out" policy adopted by Uncle Jin towards the Far East, after entering the 21st century, Russian Siberia and the Far East became the world's largest industrial ruins.

Yang Weiping went to the Far East several times in his last life. His biggest impression was that the small towns and villages hidden between the forests, grasslands, and harbors were like huge urban tombs! It was not a hallucination he generated, let alone Spielberg's Star Wars blockbuster explosion set, but a real world of ruins.

This is in a land area of 12 million square kilometers, and these ruins are not an abandoned garage. An abandoned farmhouse, an abandoned factory, but a whole city, a whole village.

Due to the sharp decline in population and the return of the surplus population to Europe, factories, markets, and villages have been weathered in the quicksands of the times.

There is no need for an incinerator here. The silicate cement of urban buildings, streets, and ports has been weathered into sand, and steel and profiles have been corroded into metal slag. The cottage was turned into sawdust and dirt. Cities and villages in Siberia and the Far East are being weathered by time.

Add to that the fact that it has always been a landfill and dumping site for nuclear, chemical and toxic wastes from the former Soviet Union and Russia, and if the city had life, it would be the largest urban cemetery in the world!

Yang Weiping clearly remembers how sad he was when he passed by the small city of Shemchang in the Magadan region of the Russian Far East in 2004, and saw the deserted and empty city that was already empty and overgrown with weeds hidden in the green mountains and clear waters.

And all the way from the Far East to the western part of the Urals, there are man-made abandoned cities like Semchan. They have been reduced to the graveyards of cities. The prosperity has faded and is once again hidden in nature.

According to 2004 figures, 13,000 of Russia's 155,000 villages have been abandoned, of which 35,000 have fewer than 10 inhabitants. According to the number of Novgorod Oblast (the ancient city of Novgorod is the birthplace of European and Russian civilization), the number of villages that have disappeared in recent years is estimated to be 25,000, and these villages are scattered in forests, steppes, and small rivers.

After returning to China with questions, Yang Weiping consulted experts on the former Soviet Union.

The expert's explanation goes back to the fiery Stalin era.

In that era of burning passion. Groups of Soviet youth, just like the intellectual youth of China, did not hesitate to support the construction of the frontier. They left the warmth of their homes in Moscow and headed for the Far East with a vision of a better future. Cities have been built in the wasteland, two lovers have been born together, and generations have spent their youth in this land where forests, potatoes and oats have always grown.

But in the nineties, everything changed.

After Western countries induced Gorbachev to swallow "shock therapy" and other "panaceas". The state-owned economy of the Soviet Union collapsed, the government collapsed, and the country was in turmoil. Because of this catastrophic change, it led to a great hunger and a great plague. Without food and medicine, people are dying and fleeing in large numbers.

Because of the popularity of Western sexual freedom and timely pleasure in Russia. Problems such as AIDS and alcoholism have made the life expectancy of Russians shorter and shorter. Because of unemployment and insecurity, many young people are afraid to get married, leading to a decline in fertility rates. Between 1989 and 2003, Russia's population fell from 147 million to 143 million. The average fertility rate for women in Russia is only 1.2, which is even lower than that of the European Union.

On February 15, 2001, the Russian government released a report pointing out that due to the Great Economic Recession, the trend of declining population in Russia year by year will not be reversed, and the birth rate and life expectancy are declining simultaneously. According to the relevant statistics of Moscow University, in more than eight years since 1992, the population of Russia has been "reduced" by 5.8 million, which is equivalent to the population of the entire city of St. Petersburg.

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, because of the loss of government restraints and restrictions, the inhabitants of the cold, remote and impoverished Siberia and the Far East rushed to the rich western Europe. The original Russians flocked to the Moscow region, and the former Ukrainian Komsomol members and other immigrants from the Baltic, Caucasus, and Central Asia who had been recruited, exiled, and encouraged here returned to their hometowns in Western Europe, Northern Europe, the Caucasus, and Central Asia.

The Russian government tried to stop this historical process, implemented the Far East reconstruction and development plan in a high-profile manner, and led by the government, forcibly resettled Russians overseas, forcibly planted Chechen refugees, forcibly bought abandoned factories, and even forced the sale of Lada cars in order to invigorate the market, promote consumption and employment, and even forced the sale of Lada cars. In the end, a policy similar to "shock therapy" could only be adopted, hollowing out the Far East and leaving it to fend for itself.

How does a small string of cities on the Trans-Siberian Railway, with a faint glow on the NASA satellite image, resemble the stronghold of Russian Cossack soldiers and bandits deep into the heart of Siberia and the Far East 300 years ago?

What if this is still part of the territory of China?

It's a pity that in this world, there is no if.

Today, in Siberia and the Far East, millions of "Soviet intellectuals" and their descendants are still working hard in this fertile land.

Siberia and the Far East in this life are much better than in the same period of history. This is because the government and its inhabitants have received selfless help from the Soviet people's friendliest and most loyal international ally, the Eastern Union.

On the territory of the former Far Eastern Republic, many merchants and commercial companies of the Eastern Union were active. In the cities of Blagoveshchensk, Khabarovsk, Verkhniy Udinsk, Sledensk, Nerchensk, Vladivostok, Iman, and Spassk, with the approval of the local government and the Soviet leadership, the Oriental Union Business Association was also set up to ensure the interests of the Oriental Union and Chinese businessmen.

OUCC has its own security guard and school, and the local consulate of OUCC organizes various activities of the chamber. The Far Eastern Military Region and the government have allowed the Oriental Union Chamber of Commerce to have its own armed security forces carrying pistols, semi-automatic rifles, and other light weapons on the condition that the security forces are completely under the unified management of the local police department. There can also be consular guards in the Eastern Union neighborhood, but they do not have the right to arbitrarily arrest and search the Eastern Union and the Soviets.

In order to stabilize the financial and money markets in the Far East, the Supreme Presidium of the Soviet Union agreed to the opening of branches of the Asian Development Bank and the Nanyang Commercial Bank in major cities in the Far East, and set the official exchange rates for the Asian dollar and the ruble, allowing the Asian dollar to circulate in the Far East and Siberia.

With Karenia's assistance and support, the influence of the OUC Chamber of Commerce in the Far East and Siberia has gradually increased.

Just as the common Chinese people were honored to work in foreign-funded companies and factories, Soviet civilians in the Far East and Siberia were scrambling to find out all kinds of ways to get into the OUCC and enjoy the kind of superior salaries and benefits.

In addition, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the Nanyang Commercial Bank (Nanyang Commercial Bank) have introduced a variety of flexible lending policies for local residents and businesses to encourage the Soviet people in the Far East and Siberia to become self-employed.

In this way, the size of the Soviet "fallen master" contingent in the Far East is no worse than that of the "fallen master" active in the land of China. On the contrary, a small number of Far Eastern masters are even more powerful than the Northeast masters of China in terms of wealth.

Since the beginning of 1980, the changes in the Far East of the Soviet Union have been proceeding step by step in the direction expected by Yang Weiping.

After staring at the map for a while, Yang Weiping slowly walked back to the desk, moved the optical mouse, and activated the 21-inch LCD monitor on the desktop that entered the screensaver state.

As OUCC becomes more and more stable in its leading position in the world's computer industry, paperless computer office has gradually become one of the hard indicators for the government departments of OUCC to measure their performance. (To be continued......) I1292