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In the nineties, Gorbachev suffered a setback in economic reforms, and then turned reforms towards political reforms, implementing a policy of economic reconstruction and openness at home, and liquidating historical mistakes, with the result that his old man's reforms had unexpectedly serious consequences - with the decentralization of central power, the leaders of the republics began to seek greater autonomy. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 With the deepening of "openness", the historical problems and historical crimes of the CPSU were exposed, and at the same time, they gradually lost the support of the people.

On 11 March 1990, Lithuania took the lead in announcing its secession from the Soviet Union.

Russia then took the lead in issuing the "Declaration of Sovereignty," which was followed by the "Declaration of Sovereignty" issued by nine other republics -- declaring that the country was a sovereign state, that its laws were superior to the laws of the whole Soviet Union, and that the laws of the whole Union were legitimate only if they did not contravene the laws of the republics or were approved by the Supreme Soviet of the Republic.

In other words, the Soviet Union at this time had entered the countdown to complete disintegration.

On March 12, 1990, Gorbachev was elected the first president of the Soviet Union.

During his stay in the Soviet Union, Xu Cun, in addition to continuing to keep in touch with Yeltsin, Pu Whale, and radical officials, also asked Li Yuejin to meet and secretly talk to 'Sun Yong', who had been active in the Soviet Union, on his behalf.

On the contrary, the disintegration of the Soviet Union was the reunification of the two Germanys -- on March 18, 1990, the GDR became the first largest party, the GDR SPD became the second largest party, and the Democratic Socialist Party became the third largest party. On 12 April, the East German Democratic Democratic League (GDD) and the East German Social Democratic Party (SPD) announced their joint government formation, and the Democratic Socialist Party (DPP) became an opposition party for the first time. Subsequently, the new East German government signed a state treaty with the Federal Republic of Germany, which provided for the establishment of a monetary, economic and social union between the two Germanys.

In other words, the countdown to German reunification has begun, and it is progressing rapidly.

For Xu Cun, joining the EU is of extraordinary significance, and the core country of the EU is actually Germany, so before formally joining the EU, Xu Cun must maintain a good relationship with Germany.

In order to maintain good relations with Germany and to use Germany as a platform to contact important political and business figures from other European countries, after attending the inauguration ceremony of Gorbachev's first president, Xu Cun flew to West Germany to congratulate West Germany on taking out the Democratic Socialist Party of East Germany, the biggest enemy of German reunification.

The nineties were the best times for any strongman aspiring to the world market.

Since the 80s, the economies of most European countries have been in a period of transition, and with the exception of a few countries such as Germany, there has been a general recession at this stage. The empire on which the sun never sets, once invincible, also had a brief recovery after the war, but when it came to the Iron Lady Margaret Thatcher, it fell to a low point, not only did the huge colonies that had been built for hundreds of years completely fall apart, but the once invincible Royal Navy was stripped of its last layer of glory in the Falklands battle with Argentina, just like the British economy.

However,

Even if Britain declines, it is now the world's third-largest film market after the United States and Japan, and even in a few decades it will be in the top five in the world.

With such a big film market, how can Xu Cun be reluctant to do it?

But a few years ago, because Xu Cun had fought against Britain several times, and he also forcibly acquired the British pride Standard Chartered Bank, the relationship between Xu Cun and the UK was very stiff, very, very, very stiff!

Therefore, before this, Xu Cun wanted to enter the British film market, which was simply a fool's dream!

But-

This is different from the past - now, Xu Cun finally has a chance to ease relations with the British.

First of all, the United Kingdom is a member of the European Community, and will be a member of the European Union in the future, and Xu Cun and his Neverland (after buying Safiradura Island from Spain, Xu Cun renamed it "Neverland"). In the future, it will also be a member of the European Union, so it is inevitable that the two sides will cooperate in the future - the reason why Xu Cun was able to join the EU in his personal capacity is not only because Xu Cun built a backup oil and gas pipeline for the EU, but also because Xu Cun's outlets of Baye Bank and Standard Chartered Bank around the world are a strong boost to promote the euro (in fact, there is another reason, that is, Xu Cun has good relations with many countries such as China, the United States, the Soviet Union, Japan, and South Korea, which is conducive to the EU's diplomacy. Therefore, it is impossible for the United Kingdom, which is short of oil and gas and has been declining, not to deal with Xu Cun.

Secondly, the differences between the British Conservative Party on Margaret Thatcher's policy and direction in the European Community have deteriorated significantly, and triggered the reform of the party Xia Shunting to propose a re-election of the Conservative Party leader, and in the first round of voting, Mrs. Thatcher had more votes than her only opponent, Xia Shunting, but because Thatcher did not get the required number of votes, so that a second round of voting was required, the incident caused Thatcher to announce that she would give up her bid for the position of party leader and prime minister, and changed to Xia Shunting, Major and Handard competed, in other words, the era of Margaret Thatcher has passed, and Britain will usher in a new era, and Xu Cun, who has long been interested in improving relations with Britain, has long supported the 200 million pounds campaign funds of Major, the successor of Margaret Thatcher at the time of the British Finance Secretary, that is to say, as long as Major can be elected as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in a few months like the previous life, Xu Cun's relationship with Britain will definitely ease a lot.

Of course, even so, in a short period of time, Xu Cun didn't want to swagger into the UK - after all, Xu Cun had done too much before.

Therefore, if Xu Cun wants to break into the British film market, he must adopt a roundabout method - secretly acquire a British cinema chain.

In the UK, there are three largest cinema chains - Odeon, Vue Entertainment Limited, and UCT Cinemas Holdings Limited.

Odeon is a cinema giant company with cinemas, video games, restaurants and more, headquartered in the United Kingdom, and has cinemas in many countries throughout Europe, with nearly 1,700 screens under its umbrella.

Vue and UCT are slightly less powerful than Odeon, but they both have 1,300 and 400 screens in the UK and several European countries, respectively.

One of the purposes of Xu Cun's trip to Germany is to see if he can acquire one of the three cinema chains, a cinema chain called the British Cinema Line, which is actually controlled by two large enterprises in Germany and the Netherlands - UCT.

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