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Or search on Baidu: Sanlian Literature Network] The old men spent a week in Moscow, and basically used up all the $20,000 spent by no one.

It's not that the old men are too extravagant, but many things here are indeed quite cheap, because the ruble is constantly depreciating, and many retired workers receive salaries that are not enough for a week's consumption, and this situation is still ongoing, so Russians prefer to accept strong goods such as the dollar, which is naturally negotiable in terms of price.

Therefore, the old men bought a lot of rare things, and finally counted them, and probably need to be transported back by charter flight, but calculate the value of these things, and after returning to China, they can probably multiply it several times, right?

There are also some people from the Russian research institute who secretly contact the old man, probably wanting to sell some research results, but most of them are civilian, after all, the technical achievements in the military are too eye-catching, and the official eyes are also tight, and the people in the research institute do not believe that the old man can pay too high a price, but civilian projects are easier to trade.

In this way, although there was no great espionage activities, Fan Wuxian and the others also returned with a full load, and as soon as he was happy, he directly ordered a charter plane and shipped the things back first.

After a two-day rest, the group boarded a plane to Kyiv, Ukraine, and headed south. \\\\\ Ukraine is the second largest country in Europe, second only to Russia in terms of land area, but has a population of less than 50 million, including more than 100 ethnic groups.

Since its founding several decades ago, the CPSU has made serious mistakes, the building of democracy and the rule of law has been weak, the people's freedom has been suppressed, and there are serious worries about hidden national contradictions.

Especially in 1986. At the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Soviet Ukraine, a serious meltdown and radiation leak occurred with serious consequences.

However, at that time, the Soviet official began to hide the truth of the incident from the world and its own people, and after it was exposed by foreign media and nuclear radiation detection departments, the bureaucratic consciousness of the Soviet Union was widely criticized.

After Gorbachev came to power in the Soviet Union, various contradictions accumulated in history and reality began to surface. Nationalism and national independence tendencies quickly reared up, the political situation in the country began to rise sharply, and at the same time, Ukraine began its steps towards independence.

In 1991, the Ukrainian government issued a declaration of national independence, officially declaring independence from the Soviet Union and changing the name of the country to Ukraine.

In December of the same year, the leaders of Ukraine, Russia and Belarus signed an agreement in Minsk.

It was declared that the USSR no longer existed. The Commonwealth of Independent States was formed, and the independence of Ukraine was finally completed. It's just that Ukraine's domestic economic situation is the same as Russia's.

\\\\\ government is also very unstable, and the people in the country are living in great distress, but there is a different situation, that is, Europe and the United States are more supportive of Ukraine, which is probably to pull Ukraine into the Western camp and become a sharp blade inserted in Russia's heart.

The Americans probably want to draw Ukraine into NATO membership, but Russia will certainly not sit idly by and watch such an extremely unfavorable thing happen to itself.

And Ukraine, out of its own considerations, cannot make such an extremely dangerous decision, so the foreign aid from Europe and the United States is not so neat.

Therefore, when Fan Wuzhi and others got off the plane and came to the city, they found that there was a march on the street, and a group of retired workers were holding placards and shouting slogans on the street, of course, some of them were veterans wearing old Soviet military uniforms, and some were old Red Army soldiers who had participated in the Great Patriotic War, and their chests were full of various medals.

"Decades of hard work. One night back to the pre-liberation period. The lives of these people are really bad! An embassy staff member beside Fan Wuxian sighed.

"So what's the solution? Anyway, I chose to make an independent decision at the beginning, and I also chose to take the capitalist road. The first (5) 20.0 now finds out that it is wrong, regrets it, and the time is late, and everyone has to pay the price for their choice. Fan Wuxi took a sip of the soju in the stainless steel wine bottle and said naturally.

"What do the common people know, and they are not led by the nose by politicians?" The staff said disappreciatively.

Fan Wuxian nodded, and said in his heart that this was reliable.

"How is life going for your embassy staff? Is there any guarantee? Fan Wuxian asked casually.

"It's okay, anyway, the situation in the country is not too good, we can do it here, but the prices in Ukraine are too high, especially consumables such as vegetables." The staff replied.

"Actually, you can get some daily necessities from China and then exchange them directly for consumables, which is very cost-effective." Fan Wuxian suggested.

"This, doesn't seem appropriate? We are, after all, state functionaries. The man said with some uncertainty.

"Adapt, your stomach is your own." Fan Wuxian said. At that time, the Soviet Union implemented a highly centralized planned economy, and Ukraine, as the most important energy and mineral base of the former Soviet Union, was naturally a region with quite developed military industrial enterprises, and with the end of the Cold War and the disintegration of the Soviet Union, the original production links and industrial production system failed, causing the Ukrainian economy to fall into chaos, and the political transition stage also aggravated the economic crisis in Ukraine.

\\\\\\ due to the lack of technical and financial guarantees and product markets, most of the Ukrainian military industrial enterprises have poor efficiency, coupled with the loss of scientific and technological personnel in the defense industry, the Ukrainian military industry is facing many difficulties.

In terms of the renewal of weapons and equipment, Ukraine's current funds can only maintain the existing old equipment, and it is difficult to meet even daily training, and the serious shortage of funds has become the biggest obstacle to the revitalization of Ukraine's defense industry.

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Ukraine inherited a large number of troops, advanced weapons and equipment, and strategic reserves of the former Soviet army, including 700,000 active-duty soldiers, more than 6,000 tanks, more than 7,000 armored vehicles, 1,500 aircraft, 350 warships, 1,200 intercontinental missile nuclear warheads, and 2,500 tactical nuclear weapons.

The sheer military power of both Russia and the Americans should not be underestimated. To this end, the Ukrainian government, which has suffered so much from war, has established denuclearization and disarmament as the main tone of its future work from the very beginning, declared that it will pursue a policy of non-nuclear, neutral and non-alignment, and will begin large-scale disarmament.

At the same time, the military-industrial complex in Ukraine has accelerated the pace of conversion from military to civilian use, diverting the production potential of the military-industrial sector in the defense industry and machine building to civilian products and technological transformation.

In this process, many technical personnel and veteran workers of military industrial enterprises are facing unemployment and living crisis, so these people can account for more than half of the procession on the streets.

The motorcade of Fan Wuzhi and others was forced to stop on the street several times, waiting for the long procession to pass by, and some even knocked on the windows of their cars and stretched out their hands to ask for cash and food.

"The consequences of rapid privatization ---," Fan Wuxian couldn't help but say. In fact, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, a large amount of weapons, equipment and military supplies were left to Ukraine, with a total value of up to 100 billion US dollars.

Since ninety-one years, Ukraine's foreign arms exports have been very hot, such as many weapons used in the Middle East and African battlefields, which have been lost from Ukraine, and it is said that there are still a few nuclear warheads missing.

It stands to reason that Ukraine will not be too poor if it sells a little weapon, especially since it is still a big country with resources, and the reserves of coal, iron, natural gas and oil are very rich, so it will not starve.

However, the main reason is that these resources are basically monopolized by the oligarchs, and after a few twists and turns, they have become private property, and most of the arms exports are mainly resold through the black market, although they were once very active in the international arms market, but the profits will certainly not be nationalized, so the life of the common people in China is still a mess.

The Ukrainian side is also very enthusiastic about this old man from China's tour group, but they are obviously not as serious as the Russian side, and the recent domestic partisan strife has become more and more serious, and everyone can't take care of this kind of entertainment, so the officials of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs came to deal with it, but the person in charge of the Ministry of Commerce heard about the big money of the tour group in Russia, and he was very enthusiastic about it, and he wanted to do a few business, so as to get some benefits for his ministry, after all, many Chinese goods, It is very popular in Ukraine.

Therefore, when Fan Wuxian and others moved in, the first people to come to the door were the people from the Ministry of Commerce, probably to exchange intelligence with the Russian side, and as soon as their people came, they found Fan Wuxi.

"Hello Mr. Fan, I am Kashkov, Assistant Minister of the Ministry of Commerce of Ukraine." The person who came was a tall Ukrainian, but spoke in Chinese.

"Kashkov's assistant speaks Chinese very slippery!" Fan Wuxian praised with a smile.

"I have a quarter of Chinese ancestry." Kashkov replied.

"Assistant Kashkov is visiting, there should be something to say, right?" Fan Wuxian asked straight to the point.

Kashkov immediately replied,

"I like straightforward Chinese, I'm here to talk about a business." Fan Wuxi was stunned for a moment when he heard this, he brought so many people to Ukraine, just to dig the foot of the wall, but who knew that the people from the Ministry of Commerce of Ukraine actually came to do business with him, how to say this matter?

"I'm a businessman, but I don't know what kind of business Assistant Kashkov wants to talk to me about? Mineral resources and oil, although I am more interested, but it is a problem to transport! As for nuclear warheads or something, it's useless for you to sell them to me? Fan Wuxian said with a haha.

"I know that Mr. Fan is a person with a way, are you interested in aircraft engines?" Kashkov mysteriously lowered his voice and asked Fan Wuxian.

Aircraft engines?! Fan Wuxian was stunned for a moment, he was thinking in his heart, I came to steal people and equipment, that is, I wanted to do some precision machining technology or something, who knew that the Ukrainians were so enthusiastic, it was an aircraft engine as soon as it came up, and it was a government employee who was talking about business with him!

Oh, my God! No wonder Ukraine's nuclear warheads can be lost, it's not surprising at all!