Since 1986, inflation in the Soviet Union has been increasing sharply from year to year, with inflation rising to 6.2 per cent in 1986, 7.3 per cent in 1987, 8.4 per cent in 1988, and 13 per cent in 1989. The huge fiscal deficit of 1989 (120 billion rubles, when the ratio of the ruble to the dollar was still 0.6:1) forced the State Bank of the USSR to issue additional currency to make up for this alarming figure. However, even so, prices have skyrocketed! Coupled with the lack of materials in the Soviet Union, inflation drove the wave of immigration to the USSR in the 90s. And it is in such a situation that the trading of the foreign exchange black market is gradually rampant! By the autumn of 1989, 1 dollar could be exchanged for about 15 rubles on the black market, which was more than 20 times higher than the official exchange rate in the Soviet Union, which did not depreciate the ruble!

Leo. This is the basis for Vantaa's offer of 1 US dollar to 28 rubles.

The vodka here is not as good as the second pot, the soap and beef here need to be supplied, and the special distribution system once made Yeltsin angry! And because of the long history of struggle in the countryside against feeding the cities, the Bolshevik Party showed complete suspicion of the peasants, and without policy encouragement and government subsidies, the people of the Soviet Union still could not eat haode food, even though the Soviet agriculture itself was very developed!

Thousands of vegetables and fruits will only be piled up in warehouses by the Bolshevik government to rot and rot again!

And when these rotten and spoiled vegetables were sent to the state-owned grocery stores, the Soviet people could do nothing but curse black carrots, rotten green vegetables and moldy potatoes!

If you don't want to eat it, don't eat it!

This is the mantra of the Soviet peasantry!

Corruption had penetrated into the institutions of the Soviet Union, but no one in the Bolshevik Party felt the need to investigate! The police are busy doing business, the accountants and auditors will simply buy and sell what is lost from the books, and the party and government officials will only see such a chaotic situation as another opportunity for them to steal!

However, in addition to material deprivation, the standard of living of the Soviet people was still very high! Because the Bolsheviks created a strong state welfare system, they had a 24-hour hot and cold water supply (13 kopecks, or 1 cent, a month), unlimited local calls (only 9 cents a month), unlimited rides on their buses, trams, and subways (only 5 cents per person per time), free medical care, free meals and medicines for the inpatients, free education, and free recess meals......

This is the current state of affairs in the USSR!

Andre. Bush went out for a day, and when it was dark, he returned to the hotel! And with him came back a young Russian!

"Sergey. Ivanovich. Ivanov, you can call him Sergey or Seryosha! Bob. Cummings, my boss! ”

"Hello ~ Mr. Clemmings!"

"Hello! Seryosha! Listen to Andrei, you now work in the Ministry of Industry of the USSR and manage the recycling of vegetables and fruits? ”

"Yes, sir!"

"Very well, Seryosha! Actually, I have something I want to ask you for help with! ”

"Mr. Clemmings refers to buying produce from me?"

"Seryosha, buying agricultural products is just one of them! Now, although the peasants of the Soviet Union are no longer rioting, I think you should know what their attitude is towards the government! There will be no end to the arms race with the United States, so there will be no big change in the government's policy of supporting agriculture! The idea was to create a chain brand of light industrial products in the USSR, and agricultural products were just the beginning! ”

"A chain brand of light industrial products? Crimmings, with all due respect, I have been in the government for several years and must know the USSR better than you! The USSR was a country of heavy industry, and light industry was our soft underbelly! Those who have the only ones, which can be called luxuries, will only be distributed to the relevant personnel of the state department! The people, can never get. Without a product, the brand of light industrial products you are talking about will only become an empty shell! ”…,

"Seryosha, you and I think you misunderstood! I didn't tell you that the products of light industry were to be obtained from within the Soviet Union! In an environment like collective distribution, this is completely impossible! ”

"So, what do you mean......"

Bob smiled, "The fact that the USSR did not have light industrial products does not mean that other countries do not!" Take China, for example. ”

"If Mr. Cummings can really get light industrial products from China, I can help you!"

"Excellent! Andrei really didn't find the wrong person! This is the first batch of 1,000 tons of vegetables and fruits to purchase jihua! What we need is fresh vegetables and fruits, not rotten and moldy garbage piled up in the warehouse! I hope that you can tell your fellow farmers that Clemings United Products will provide subsidies for growing grain. ”

"You mean, you're going to add agricultural subsidies when you purchase products from the Ministry of Agriculture?"

"Yes, Seryosha! However, I need to remind you that these agricultural grants will be distributed directly to growers through Cummings Associates, and will not go through the hands of the Ministry of Agriculture! ”

"This, I guess no problem! If Mr. Clemmings could really do this, it would be of great help to Soviet agriculture! ”

"Of course, as a token of my appreciation to you, there will be a stake in you within Cummings Associates!"

"Wait a minute, Mr. Cummings, if we want to make things go more smoothly, I think we need to put Yuri. Mr. Luzhkov pulled in! ”

"Yuri. Luzhkov? ”

"Yes, Yuri. Luzhkov, he is the head of the Ministry of Industry! ”

"No problem at all! I'd be glad you could tie a thread in between! ”

Yuri. Luzhkov has been bothered for a long time by the neglect of 120,000 peasant households in the Soviet Union, but the discrimination against the peasant class within the party has not been eliminated, and policy tilt is simply impossible! Every time he inspected the agricultural product warehouse, he was very worried! And now, a company from the United States has told him that they can provide farmers with planting subsidies, which is great news! Of course, Luzhkov also expressed certain doubts about the purpose of this American!

"Spies? Mr. Luzhkov, you are really joking! I'm a businessman, and my only purpose is to make more money! Rather than let the vegetables rot in the warehouse, it is better to sell them all to Cummings United Products. Isn't it a win-win cooperation that the Soviets can eat better and cleaner food, the Soviet farmers can continue their cultivation work with more enthusiasm, the Soviet government can get an extra fiscal revenue to cope with the government deficit, and at the same time, the new Crimmings United Products Company can provide more jobs for the Soviets, and we, too, can make a lot of money because of it, isn't that a win-win cooperation? You say that we have the problem of eating for the Soviets in our hands? No, no, no, you are wrong, Mr. Luzhkov. In Moscow, for example, the annual production of agricultural products in Moscow will reach at least 1.5 million tons, while the annual purchase of agricultural products by the Crimmings United Products Company in Moscow will only reach 150,000 tons, which is only one-tenth of the total product. So, your assumption doesn't hold! We have nothing to do with politics, we only believe in the supremacy of profit! Very well, Mr. Luzhkov, and welcome to Cummings United Products! ”……，