Chapter 539: The Prelude to the Collapse of the Soviet Union - Lithuania is about to become independent

At this time, the door of the box was suddenly pushed open, but the person who came in was a little unexpected and it was Aso Kazuki who had been in the Soviet Union.

"Xiangyue, when did you come back?" Mitsuri Uda immediately greeted him, and the two girls came to a warm hug.

"Kazuki, when did you arrive in Tokyo?" Fang Mingyuan was a little surprised in his heart, Aso Xiangyue had contact with him yesterday, why did he suddenly return to Tokyo without making a sound, could it be that something happened to the Soviet Union?

"Fang Jun, you come with me, I have something important to tell you" Aso Xiangyue grabbed Fang Mingyuan's arm, nodded slightly to the others in the box, and left the box again. Chen Zhong and the others outside the box immediately followed.

Fang Mingyuan asked the theater for an unoccupied room, and as soon as Aso Xiangyue sat down, he said urgently: "Fang Jun, according to the reliable information I have received, at the latest, the Republic of Lithuania, a union republic of the Soviet Union, will declare independence."

Lithuania wanted to declare independence, and Fang Mingyuan was also taken aback. He remembered very well that in his previous life, the prelude to the collapse of the Soviet Union was opened by the declaration of independence of the three Baltic states. But when you calculate the time, it seems that the time is much earlier.

In his previous life, the Lithuanian Soviet Republic declared independence on March 11 this year, while Georgia, the second country to declare independence, would not declare independence until April next year. There was a year difference between the two. In other words, in the past 90 years, Lithuania, a small country with an area of just over 60,000 square kilometers and a population of only 3 million, has struggled to withstand the tremendous pressure from Moscow.

In this life, the time of Lithuania's independence has actually been delayed for quite a long time, but the wheel of history is still rolling forward with its huge and unstoppable inertia.

In fact, the reason why Weishenme, the first Soviet republic to propose independence, is the three Baltic states, which also has extremely far-reaching historical origins.

In Lithuania, for example, in the Lithuanian land, a class society emerged in the 5th and 6th centuries AD. From the 12th century onwards, it was invaded by the Germanic feudal lords. Later, in 1240, the unified Grand Duchy of Lithuania was formed. Moreover, the territory of the later Grand Duchy of Lithuania even included parts of Western Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus. The Grand Duchy of Lithuania later also participated in the Livonian War against Russia.

In the 16th century, Lithuania merged with Poland to form the Kingdom of Poland-Lithuania. By the end of the eighteenth century, at the beginning of the nineteenth century, Lithuania was annexed by Russia as a result of the partition of Poland. For this, the Lithuanians took part in several Polish uprisings. Resist Russian aggression.

After World War I, Lithuania declared its independence again. It also concluded a non-aggression pact with the Soviet government, but the good times did not last long, according to the later Soviet-German non-aggression pact secret protocol, Lithuania was assigned to the territory of the Soviet Union, and then the Soviet army entered Lithuania, after the outbreak of the Soviet-German war, Lithuania was occupied by Germany. In 1944, Soviet troops reoccupied Lithuania and established the Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic, joining the Soviet Union.

The other two countries, which can be said to be similar to Lithuania, did not join the Soviet Union willingly, but were forcibly incorporated into their territory by the Soviet Union after World War II. It can be said that between the three Baltic states and the Soviet Union, there was originally a history of blood and tears.

After the three Baltic states joined the Soviet Union, they were closer to the Nordic countries in terms of culture, language, religion, and so on. After the Soviet Union forcibly annexed them, it implemented a high-pressure policy against the nationalist tendencies in the three countries, and immigrated to the three countries in large numbers, forcibly introduced the Russian language, and narrowed their national characteristics, which caused extreme dissatisfaction among the locals. In addition, the three countries had a relatively high level of economic development and a living standard similar to Sweden and Finland, but after World War II, they continued to distance themselves from Sweden and other Nordic countries, so the residents of the three countries generally felt that they had suffered a 'loss' by integrating into the Soviet Union.

Therefore, as early as the 80s, the waves of national independence of the three Baltic countries were rising and falling, and mass rallies and demonstrations were often held in the capitals of the three countries and in some other places to protest against the Soviet-German Non-Aggression Pact signed in 1939. In the first year, that is, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the signing of the "Soviet-German Non-Aggression Pact", the three Baltic countries held a large-scale mass demonstration, more than 2 million people crossed the national border, hand in hand to form a human chain of nearly 700 kilometers, and the number of participants reached 40% of the total population of the three countries, known as the "Baltic Road", in order to express the protest against the "Soviet-German Non-Aggression Pact" that led to the integration of the three countries into the territory of the Soviet Union and the desire for national independence.

It can be said that Lithuania's independence has long had a popular base.

"Fang Jun, I'm worried, if Lithuania's independence becomes a reality, then is it possible for the Soviet Union to fall apart? So can our investment be guaranteed safely," Aso said with some concern. During these days in the Soviet Union, Aso Kazuki gained a deeper understanding of the current state of Soviet society.

The polar bear, which once overwhelmed the whole of Europe, is now still a behemoth, but it has lost its sharpness and domineering, and the sharp social contradictions have made the upper echelons of the Soviet Union anxious. Lithuania's declaration of independence is undoubtedly another blow to the pillars of this already precarious building. Once a chain reaction is formed and the Soviet Union collapses, it is not impossible for this unbelievable thing to sound unbelievable

But once such a behemoth breaks out in turmoil or disintegrates, the huge impact it will bring is unimaginable. It will inevitably cause turmoil in the Soviet Union and even in the whole country, so although Aso Xiangyue has been more or less mentioned by Fang Mingyuan about this possibility, he is still very worried about the huge amount of money that Fang Mingyuan has invested in the Soviet Union and the security in the future. So after getting the news, after learning that Fang Mingyuan was in Tokyo, she immediately flew back from the Soviet Union and had a direct interview with Fang Mingyuan.

To be honest, Fang Mingyuan has always been ambivalent about the collapse of the Soviet Union. For China, the most threatening country has always been its northern neighbor. It has invaded the territory of China the most, and it has always threatened to use nuclear weapons against China. If the Soviet Union collapsed, although Russia is still a country with huge influence, the threat to China has been greatly weakened. Moreover, it was precisely because of the collapse of the Soviet Union that the military in China also gained a lot of benefits from it and recruited a large number of outstanding talents. This is also one of the important reasons why new Chinese weapons appeared like a blowout after 2,000 years.

However, the collapse of the Soviet Union also made Russia, which succeeded it, no longer a threat to the United States, and the Americans turned their attention to China and listed China as their number one enemy. A series of actions against Huaxia were also launched. If it weren't for the turmoil in the Middle East and the September 11 incident, which distracted the attention of the Americans and bought precious time for China, the southeast coastal area of China would have been far from peaceful. Therefore, in Fang Mingyuan's view, the collapse of the Soviet Union is certainly a good thing for China, but letting the Soviet Union survive for a few years will be of greater benefit to China

This is also one of the important reasons why he weishenme promoted border trade between China and the Soviet Union.

The reason for the drastic changes in the Soviet Union is naturally due to many aspects, but the experts and scholars who studied this area in later generations almost universally agreed that the inflation in the Soviet Union at that time was very serious, and the supply of commodities related to the people's livelihood in the market exceeded demand, resulting in a continuous decline in the living standards of the Soviet people, which undoubtedly played a role in promoting the drastic changes in the Soviet Union.

Fang Mingyuan wanted to increase trade between China and the Soviet Union and do his best to postpone the arrival of the disintegration time. But it seems that instead of being able to delay the disintegration process, it has advanced? Fang Mingyuan was a little puzzled.

"Fang Jun, what are you doing in a daze," Aso Xiangyue's anxious anger made Fang Mingyuan retract from his divergent thoughts.

"Fang Jun, do you say that Lithuania's independence can succeed? Will Moscow send troops to suppress it? Aso asked solemnly.

"Success, of course, will be successful," Fang Mingyuan thought to himself. Although he can't remember the specific time of Lithuania's independence in his previous life, he still remembers that he once watched a documentary about Moscow's reaction after Lithuania declared independence.

After Lithuania declared independence, the Soviet top brass was naturally shocked, because the Soviet leaders also realized that if Lithuania's independence tendencies could not be suppressed, the Soviet 'empire' might fall apart.

In response to this change, the Soviet Union soon introduced the Law on the Procedure for the Withdrawal of the Union Republics from the Soviet Union and the Law on the State of Emergency, and imposed economic sanctions on Lithuania, which had been the first to declare independence, an economic blockade that lasted for more than two months, and also stopped the supply of oil and electricity to Lithuania, in order to demand that Lithuania abandon its claim to independence. Later, Soviet troops also occupied Riga and took control of all the press and publications. Soviet airborne troops and internal affairs forces attacked major cities in Lithuania with lightning speed, and the local police and paramilitary services were largely disarmed. The Soviets eventually occupied the capital Vilnius, and Lithuania imposed military control, and communication with the outside world was basically cut off. Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev ordered the Soviet army to "immediately eliminate the bourgeois careerists in Lithuania"

In the process, the Lithuanians also clashed with Soviet troops, killing dozens of people and wounding almost a thousand.

But in the end, as the major republics declared their independence, Moscow was powerless.

"Xiangyue, don't worry about the safety of your investment. If the Soviet Union really collapsed, those people who came to power, in order to stabilize the society as soon as possible, it is impossible to attack these foreign investors, hehe, they were originally transitioning from the jihua economy and market economy, and I believe that there is privatization of state-owned assets, but the nationalization of private assets, they will definitely not be able to do it" Fang Mingyuan said confidently, "But we also have to take precautions, I will let you hand over those powerful people, can you take care of it?" That was what Fang Mingyuan racked his brains to remember, and in the future, several emerging magnates who would occupy a place in the Russian government. As for the famous Yeltsin, there are too many people who befriend him, but he can't get up for a while, and even if he does, I'm afraid the old guy is not uncommon.

Aso Xiangyue nodded, this was an important matter that Fang Mingyuan had given her when he left the Soviet Union

"Then you can relax, when the time comes, it will be when they beg us" Fang Mingyuan said with a smile. Since the Soviet Union has kicked off the prelude to disintegration, the depreciation of the ruble is a matter of time, and even if he loses half of his investment in Russia, it will be a big profit for Fang Mingyuan. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, it was too late for the Russian government to collude with European and American countries, so how could it confiscate Japanese-funded or American-funded enterprises. So he wasn't scared at all.

Seeing Fang Mingyuan's appearance of being a bamboo in his chest, Aso Kazuki, who was originally shocked by this news, also settled down at this time. "What Fang Jun said is that those high-ranking officials in the Soviet Union are all greedy, in order to obtain more wealth in the future, and for them to be able to enjoy this wealth, they will definitely ask for us."

"Therefore, don't stop investing, use those mines and oil fields that we have obtained the right to exploit, continue to mortgage to the banks of the Soviet Union, and then continue to buy as much as you can borrow, and buy as many resources as you can, don't worry about insufficient funds," Fang Mingyuan said in a deep voice. Such an opportunity to plunder the wealth of other countries on a large scale is not common, and if it is missed, it is an opportunity that cannot be lost.

Aso hesitated for a moment, but finally nodded in response.

"Especially the oil fields and iron mines in Russia, one will receive one," Fang Mingyuan advised, "As for those Soviet officials, as long as they don't want too much, give them as much as they want."

"I understand" Fang Mingyuan's attitude was already very clear, as the executor, Aso Xiangyue naturally understood what he needed to do.

Fang Mingyuan stood up, pulled Aso Kazuki up from the sofa, and said with a smile: "Okay, since I'm back, let's attend the premiere of "Terminator 2" together, there is no such movie in the Soviet Union, but there is half of my investment in it." ”