Chapter 481
"From now on, the old and beautiful family will be dominant!" Old Man Lin looked at the TV and said with emotion.
The coup d'état hastened the collapse of the Soviet Union, the end of the Cold War, and the dominance of one pole.
"How can you let others snore on the couch!" Fang Monan muttered to himself.
Hegemony is the eternal proposition of world history. The contention is not about ideology, not about cultural differences, but about hegemony. Because hegemony can make some people become rule-makers, getting something for nothing, or getting more for less. The Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, and Britain were all world hegemons, and there were no ideological and cultural differences between them, but they were all genuine capitalism, and they had been fighting for hundreds of years.
When the Soviet Union collapsed, why did the United States not give up and continue to chase and fight until Russia's GDP fell by 50%? It is because Russia was the only country at that time that had the potential to be a superpower. The United States must materially make Russia extremely weak and disqualify it from competing for hegemony.
In the United States, the CIA has an annual budget of $70 billion, which is more than any country's military spending, and there are other intelligence organizations, they are not idle, and they are planning various offensive plans every day. Since the end of the Cold War, it has subverted dozens of countries, and it has rich experience, a large number of talented people, a sound organization, a brilliant strategy and tactics, and a strong leadership.
Politically, economically, militarily, diplomatically, pile up obstacles for other countries, and make your surroundings full of enemies. Of course, the most ruthless move is to disintegrate you from within, which is called "soft power" built on military deterrence.
Soft powerProposed by the former president of the Kennedy School of Government in 1990, the United States has once again used culture and values to export soft power in the past few decades, and has successfully gained great international influence. And the Soviet Union was defeated in soft power.
This is the same reason as Soros's financial sneak attack on Asia, do you think the internal financial deterioration is controllable? He suddenly dispatched hundreds of billions of dollars to raid you! The most infuriating thing is that his sneak attack was successful. It is also called a beautiful name, helping you see loopholes and making you remedy.
The U.S. strategy is very clear, encircling in all directions, maintaining pressure, making you make concessions on many issues, and ultimately squeezing your space of influence. Maintaining a seemingly friendly posture with you will make you feel that there is hope of being friends and increase the weight of pro-American propaganda in China. Put fermentation bacteria inside you and let you rot from the inside. They are waiting for an opportunity, such as an economic downturn, such as a public event that is outrageous, in short, when the people turn their backs on the government. They'll do it.
Now Ge is as naïve as Ye Shi, and he yearns for the United States, as long as we become the second in the United States, all problems will be solved. As a result, the tragedy is that the earth is so big, there are so many resources, you all use it, what do they use.
"Nannan, how can I care about politics anymore." Old Man Lin said with a smile. "I said, how do you watch TV today, it's here!"
Fang Monan smiled and said nothing, just witnessing history, and pinching his fingers to calculate, Ye Laosi was safe and sound.
The CPSU, which won the October Revolution and took power in the country with only 350,000 members, lost its ruling position and was dissolved when it had nearly 20 million members. Although there were many reasons for the collapse of the USSR. But the most fundamental thing is the degeneration and degeneration of the CPSU, and the old beauty is only an external factor.
The collapse of the USSR is not a cause, not a matter of points, not of one person. It is not a one-sided matter, but a multifaceted factor. As the old saying goes, freezing three feet is not a day's cold, it is slowly accumulated, and it cannot be solved in the end. Detonated!
No matter what, history is still moving along his existing track, and all those who stand in front of him are crushed.
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The explosive news of the August 19 coup d'état not only surprised the Soviets, but also attracted the attention of the whole world. The leaders of the major Western powers have interrupted their vacations and foreign trips to summon senior aides to study the developments. It is unbelievable that a coup d'état, which was attended and supported by such powerful figures in political and military circles, came and went in a hurry. Only three days later, the coup was declared a failure.
It's unbelievable, it's just a defeat.
Boli City, or that five-story building, Ye Laosi has not slept for three days since the coup d'état, the night is dark, the stars are sparse and clear, there is no sleep, and the jade tree is frightened. In the dark night, everything is quiet, in the dark, flashing a little scarlet, the man is immersed in the light blue smoke, looking so mysterious, so calm, so calm and even a little deep, a little lazy.
This is also called a coup d'état, and he is dazzled, and all kinds of people are on the stage, and you sing to stop him on the stage.
This Goeh's is not helpful, and the Gang of Eight of the Emergency Committee is also very sloppy. It has been thirty or forty hours since the coup d'état, and there has been no substantive action except for a few proclamations. Neither the people were sent to control Goetz, nor did they take coercive measures to control the state apparatus, and there was no martial law on the streets of Moscow.
It seems to be waiting for Go's own voluntary surrender. There are still such coups d'état, and Ye Laosi is an eye-opener today. Think about the changes of the ancestors in the Xuanwu Gate, the changes in Tanglong, or the battle of Jingjing, who is not a big killing? Only the Xinyou coup d'état is a little interesting, and the Gang of Eight of the Emergency Committee is similar to Su Shun and other eight ministers. When Emperor Xianfeng died in Rehe, the queen mother of the two palaces let Su Shun serve as the minister of the guard, Su Shun was too modest to go to the table to resign, and handed over the power of the Praetorian Guards in his hand, and was later beheaded, not wronged at all. It is estimated that the situation of the Gang of Eight is not good, and sure enough, the arrest warrant came down soon and he was imprisoned.
The Gang of Eight is even more out of tune; first, they do not control important figures, second, they do not control order in Moscow, third, they do not control the powerful departments and propaganda departments, fourth, they do not reorganize the existing party and government organs, and fifth, they do not guide the ideological trends of ordinary people. If such a coup d'état can still succeed, it will be too lucky. Unless Goeth takes the initiative to give up, there is no hope of success at all. It made the Ye family and made him really out of the limelight.
After the coup d'état, there was no movement in the army, and they were all watching from the sidelines, saying that the army is not to suppress the people.
The reforms that Goetz has presided over in recent years are in fact a complete liquidation of the ruling party in the Soviet Union, and there is absolutely no talk of safeguarding the party's prestige. Now the authority of the ruling party in the Soviet Union is basically gone. The thinking within the army is even more chaotic, and lower-level officers and even high-ranking officers, Ye Laosi probably can't see the direction clearly from these performances in the Far East and other places. An army without firm beliefs is ineffective. The Emergency Committee can't control this army, but it gives the Ye clan an opportunity.
Ye Laosi held his forehead, and the worst situation will appear here next. Hell if the Gang of Eight succeeds in doing this. Maybe each of them is very powerful, but together, there is no leader who is enough to convince the public, it is just a plate of loose sand. And even if Goth's position could be restored, he would not be able to sit still. Yanayev, Yazov, Pugo, and Kryuchkov were all veterans of the CPSU and the most powerful figures. Those who are watching from the sidelines will not let go of this golden opportunity.
The foundation of the existence of the Soviet Union is already in jeopardy, and if the Gang of Eight makes such a fuss, the prestige of the ruling party of the Soviet Union will fall to the lowest point, and there may be internal splits. Even Goeth would have directly dissolved the ruling party in the USSR. Ye Laosi now has reason to believe why he insisted on establishing the post of president of the Soviet Union in the first place, and that he had this intention in the first place, to transfer the party's power to the executive organs. His so-called reform was to change the socialist system of the Soviet Union into a capitalist system.
Finally, we can throw ourselves into the big family of the West, but there is an abyss ahead.
If Goeth really took this last step, the ruling party of the Soviet Union, and indeed the entire Soviet Union, could cease to exist. The Soviet Union was divided, and the member states had already begun to become independent, and in the two days since the coup, several more countries have become independent.
In the end, it was nothing more than the re-independence of Russia, but in any way, the nascent Russia did not have the ability to receive the Soviet legacy in its entirety. Not in the short term, at least. The economic layout that the Soviet Union engaged in at the beginning was unscientific. Once split, many industrial chains will be cut off, and there is no way to effectively integrate. It is unlikely that Russia will become a great power like the Soviet Union in the next 10 or even 20 years. It really made Nan Yatou guess correctly, and her palm doubled.
In other words, as soon as the Soviet Union splits, the Cold War will end. The United States will become the global hegemon, the only class power. This is the worst case.
Ye Laosi snuffed out the cigarette butt, and kept rubbing the rosewood Buddha beads with his fingertips, it is very interesting to see Ge Shi now, maybe Ge Shi basically wanted to subvert the ruling party of the Soviet Union, and deliberately created such an opportunity for the Gang of Eight and others to carry out a coup d'état, and then captured all these hardliners in the party. In this way, there will be no more resistance to the dissolution of the ruling party in the USSR.
Who benefits the most from the failure of the coup, Ye nominally seems to be in the limelight for a while, but he can effectively control the entire overall situation, obviously not in the current situation. Suddenly he thought of someone, oh! It turned out to be them. Sure enough, politics is the darkest and dirtiest.
These people still have the ability to bring Ye to power with their own hands, from the presidential throne and the altar of national heroes, and then push another powerful figure to the front of the stage.
At no time can the people lose the hearts and minds of the people, because the people at this time are not interested in the regime and do not place hope in the leaders, so it does not matter who leaves power and who comes to power. As far as the current state of affairs in the Soviet Union is concerned, no one who comes to power can change the status quo, so the people completely abandon the communist economy. The Russians have always been looking forward to a good "tsar". (To be continued.) )
PS: Ask for pink, ask for recommendation. The second is a little later