Chapter 13: What were the consequences of the upheavals in Eastern Europe?

In the following days, although Lin Lian still lived with Fang Mingyuan, her underwear would never be hung in the toilet again, but even so, whenever she took a shower, the toilet was still filled with a woman's strong body fragrance, which was intoxicating.

The search for a house did not go so smoothly, in the capital of the nineties, it was not as easy as it was in Fang Mingyuan's previous life to find a residence that was satisfactory in terms of location, house layout, decoration, and size, even if they were not short of money. Later, Fang Mingyuan even planned to buy a room in this community as long as he could, and then let Lin Lian, Zhao Ya, and Feng Qian live in the current Chen Zhong's room, and Liu Yong lived in his own place, so that Chen Zhong and them would live there first, and then continue to adjust when there was a suitable house in the future.

The Beijing branch of the Fang family's restaurant is about to open, which takes up a lot of Lin Lian's energy, but fortunately, the Su family has greeted all aspects in advance, and those relevant departments are all green lights all the way, but even so, there are still a lot of chores, so Lin Lian is so busy that she can't go home until ninety o'clock in the evening. Fang Mingyuan knows his own family affairs, this kind of specific work is not his forte, if he really wants to intervene, I am afraid that it will only help more and more chaos, so he can only do his best to ensure Lin Lian's needs in terms of food. Every day, there is a hen stewed ginseng soup for her, and Lin Lian doesn't need to intervene in the chores at home, Fang Mingyuan hired a nanny, she only needs to come to work during the day every day.

These miscellaneous things were basically completed until the end of Fang Mingyuan's winter vacation.

Just two days before the start of school, Su Huandong once again recruited Fang Mingyuan.

During this period, the Hai Fumin defamation case had already reached a conclusion, and Xun Guohui told Chi Jingyu about the matter as it was, and Chi Jingyu mentioned it to the head of the Supreme People's Court and the Supreme People's Procuratorate, and the case immediately became the most eye-catching case in the Chinese judicial system in the 90s. The Supreme People's Procuratorate and the Supreme People's Court transferred the entire case file to the capital as quickly as possible, and soon came to the conclusion that the facts exposed and reported were basically true. Hai Dazhuang, as the secretary of the Chihe Loutian Township Party Committee, abused his power to retaliate against the whistleblower in this case, as a government functionary. And the court in Chixian County even misinterpreted the law and acted for the tiger.

The principal responsible persons of the courts, procuratorates, and police stations in Chi County have had serious demerits recorded, demoted, and dismissed from office, and even the secretary of the Chi County and county party committees and county magistrates have been severely punished. Hai Fumin was naturally acquitted, but Hai Dazhuang fled from Chixian County after learning of the news and did not know where to go.

"Chixian County and Ji Province have issued wanted warrants, and the whole country wants Hai Dazhuang, and this matter has basically come to an end. Su Huandong smiled and said, "Are you still satisfied with this result?"

Fang Mingyuan shrugged: "Make do with it." "It's a shame that Hai Dazhuang was not caught and brought to justice. And in Fang Mingyuan's view, if the result of this matter cannot become a common practice, then it cannot prevent the occurrence of endless "defamation of leaders" cases in the previous life. Although in previous lives, such cases occurred in the years after 2,000 years, it does not mean that there were no such cases in previous years. It is only because of the development of the Internet that the people have more channels to disseminate information, that these cases have been exposed. And before that, due to the lack of information, I don't know how many similar cases happened in obscurity. This time, it was purely accidental, if it hadn't been for Xun Guohui, if it wasn't for his own insistence, I'm afraid it would have been impossible in the end.

"Improvise?" Su Huandong raised his eyebrows, "It's not easy to have such a result." "If it weren't for the fact that this matter was mixed with Fang Mingyuan's contribution to this gold mine, which attracted the attention of the high-level, and wanted to overturn the trial of the original court in such a short period of time, and also deal with such a large number of officials, where would it be so easy? This is tantamount to a resounding slap in the face to the locality-government.

"Grandpa Su, I think this is not enough, we should be ruthless, and straightforwardly remove all the responsible persons related to this case in Chixian County from their posts and investigate them, and even no longer use them! In the past, there was an old saying, called 'the prefect who broke the house, and the county order that destroyed the door', but it was still an official who entered the product. A secretary of the township party committee, who was a petty official who was not in the limelight in the past, could clamoring to expose and report him, which was to insult the party, the government, and all the Chinese people, and the court actually handled it in this way, Hai Fumin was imprisoned, and his wife and children were reduced to beggars, what kind of impression would such a result give to the people of the world? How can the reputation of the party and the government be easily exposed?" Fang Mingyuan looked directly into Su Huandong's eyes and said bluntly.

Su Huandong sighed softly, how could he not know what kind of psychological feelings such a result would bring to the people, but being in a high position, it is not possible to do whatever he wants, not to mention that the judiciary is not his jurisdiction at all, it is not difficult to complain and exert some influence, but if you really want to change something, it is difficult to climb to the sky.

Fang Mingyuan looked at Su Huandong's slightly old face, but in the end, he still didn't tell all the words in his heart. He didn't understand Su Huandong's difficulties. If this is an easy matter, then Weishenme continues to challenge the patience of the people one after another twenty years after the previous life.

"Grandpa Su, don't talk about this, this time, I have a little idea, and I want to communicate with you. Fang Mingyuan took the initiative to change the topic. Promoting judicial independence is a long-term task, and it is undoubtedly a fool's dream to do it in one step.

"What thoughts?" Su Huandong immediately became interested, every time Fang Mingyuan said so solemnly that he wanted to exchange ideas with him, he would always give him some surprises.

"Grandpa, as you must know, on December 23 last year, US President George W. Bush and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev announced the end of the Cold War at a summit in Malta. ”

A flash of surprise flashed in Su Huandong's eyes, and he nodded slowly: "Yes, this is a sensational big news, as a government-official, how can you not know?"

After the end of the Second Shijie War in Europe, the Yalta system began to take shape. In 1949, the US-led NATO was established in Western Europe and on both sides of the Atlantic to promote capitalism and vigorously prop up anti-Soviet regimes in Europe, whether democratic or dictatorial. At the same time, the Soviet Union vigorously strengthened its military occupation of the countries of Eastern Europe, promoted communism, and fostered pro-Soviet communist-political power. In 1955, the Warsaw Pact was founded, when all Eastern European countries except Yugoslavia joined, and the socialist camp led by the Soviet Union formally formed a military alliance in Eastern Europe. The political bloc between the United States and the Soviet Union began a full-scale confrontation in Europe, and the Shijie pattern entered the "Cold War period".

Throughout the decades of the "Cold War", Shijie was under the shadow of nuclear war. But with the decline of the Soviet economy and the rise of Mikhail Gorbachev, relations between the United States and the Soviet Union were ostensibly thawing until the leaders of the two countries announced the end of the Cold War in Malta, and the whole Shijie cheered.

"Last year, then, the Polish United Workers' Party (PSP) held a round table with Solidarity in its approach to political pluralism and trade union pluralism. The meeting reached agreements on the legalization of Solidarity and the holding of parliamentary elections. It's just that in last year's elections, the Polish United Workers' Party lost, Solidarity won, organization-government. Does this mark a drastic change in Poland's political and economic system?" Fang Mingyuan then asked.

After Solidarity came to power, judging from the program of its ruling for nearly half a year, it can be said that Poland has officially embarked on the road of development of pursuing Western-style parliamentary democracy politically and implementing a market economy based on privatization economically. Su Huandong nodded, in fact, not only that, on the 30th of last month, the Polish United Workers' Party held its 11th National Congress, announcing that the United Workers' Party would cease its activities, and a large party that had been in power for 45 years and had nearly 3 million members was dissolved.

"The President of the Republic of Romania, Ceausescu, was overthrown by the people at the end of last year, and grandpa must have paid attention to this matter, right?"

Su Huandong continued to nod, the president of Ceausescu at the end of the year, met with clear opposition from the masses, and later he convened a meeting of party, government and military leaders, determined to suppress the masses, because the Minister of Defense refused to carry out the order and was shot, as a result, the chief of staff and a group of officers turned against Ceausescu, thus pushing him down.

He also knew that the Romanian leader had a prominent problem of undermining democracy within the party and detaching himself from the masses. Especially in the later period of Ceausescu's rule, he engaged in personal arbitrariness, and even family rule. His wife is a member of the Politburo and the first vice prime minister of the government, who is in charge of the evaluation and promotion of cadres in the party, and the de facto second in command in Romania; his son is an alternate member of the Politburo and first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League; his three younger brothers are respectively deputy minister of national defense and director of the General Political Department, deputy director of the State Planning Commission, and president of the Senior Police School of the Ministry of the Interior; his brother-in-law is the secretary of the Central Committee in charge of agriculture, and even his daughter-in-law, who is also the vice chairman of the National Women's Federation. Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League and Chairman of the National Young Pioneers. His family has no less than dozens of people holding important positions in the party, government, and military departments, and actually controls all aspects of the country's political, economic, military, and social life.

And he also knew that the former president of the Romanian Republic had been secretly executed.

"I believe that Grandpa has also noticed the changes in the GDR?" Fang Mingyuan blinked, "Have you ever thought that all this would happen to Weishenme?"

** The situation in the GDR changed dramatically. Since May of the same year, a large number of GDR citizens have fled to the Federal Republic of Germany. Since then, demonstrations of various sizes have erupted in many cities, demanding the relaxation of restrictions on travel abroad and the news media. In October, GDR President Honecker announced his resignation. Subsequently, the SED changed its policy: it recognized the opposition organization "New Forum" as a legitimate organization, and decided to introduce a multiparty system. In November, the "Berlin Wall", which had separated the citizens of East and West Berlin for nearly three decades, was torn down. In December, Federal Chancellor Eksandr Kohl presented a ten-point proposal for the reunification of the two Germanys. It can be said that the changes in the two Germanys are dizzying.

Su Huandong's expression became solemn, and this series of domino-like changes in Eastern European countries in the first year can be said to have shocked China and foreign countries. Such an unheard-out event will happen in Weishenme, and will such drastic changes occur in these socialist countries in a short period of time? Su Huandong has also thought deeply about this issue.

In the later stages of the Cold War, the contradictions in various aspects of society in these Eastern European countries became increasingly prominent. As a result of the overly one-sided emphasis on the development of heavy industry, there is a huge gap between the people's living standards and those of Western European countries. Moreover, the ruling parties and governments of the Eastern European countries of these countries have been plagued by corruption** and violations of the law and human rights because of the lack of oversight and elections.

Looking at the various parties in Eastern Europe, all of them have a huge contingent of party members, accounting for a very high proportion of the country's population, generally reaching 10 percent of the national population, and in some countries even reaching 20 percent. And because it is the ruling party, joining the party can be said to be the capital of being an official, causing many people who are not qualified in political literacy to enter the party one after another in order to become officials. However, after the number of party members in Eastern European countries increased, the political education of party members did not keep up with the time, but on the contrary, it was relaxed, and in some countries the political education of party members even existed in name only. The requirements for party members are confused with those of ordinary people, and many party members are even inferior to ordinary people after joining the party. As a result, the party's image in the eyes of the people has been seriously damaged.

At the same time, the selection of party leaders has also lowered the standard - sex - and the quality has dropped significantly. The phenomenon of constant corruption among party cadres, especially leading cadres, who engage in specialization and privileges, has undermined the party's self-building, such as Ceausescu, president of the Republic of Romania, as the most striking example. However, many veteran party members in Poland commented that their previous leaders "have different advantages" but "have common shortcomings", and they are all "more centralized and less democratic". It can be said that the decline in the quality of party members and cadres was an important reason for the dissatisfaction of the people of Eastern European countries and the eventual drastic changes.

The Soviet Union's program of building "democratic socialism" after Gorbachev came to power promoted the reorganization of the parties in Eastern Europe, while Gorbachev adopted the "Sinatra Doctrine" to reduce his control over Eastern European countries. As a result, various contradictions accumulated over a long period of time in Eastern European countries during the Cold War erupted one after another.

Of course, this is naturally indispensable to the fact that the Western countries led by the United States are promoting peaceful evolution.

"The reason for the drastic changes in Eastern European countries is enough for you to write a book, Grandpa Su. Fang Mingyuan said softly, "I just want to know now, Poland has fallen, Romania has fallen, Hungary seems to have fallen, the GDR is hanging, Bulgaria is also hanging, if this continues, what will happen to the Soviet Union? Will it brazenly start a war? Or is it possible to disintegrate?"