After all, Seryosha has not returned to Gorky for several years. It's not that Seryosha doesn't want to go back, but he hasn't had time all the time. Just after Seryosha had taken care of the preliminary planning of the Komsomolsk Special Economic Zone, Seryosha asked Yulia to arrange a trip for her to visit the Gorky Automobile Factory.

Seryosha is well aware that the Soviet Union is now in a depression, but there are three industries that have always been able to provide stable income for the country and have strong market competitiveness. These three industries are the military, resource industry, and automotive industry.

A few years earlier, Seryosha had unexpectedly opened up huge markets for the Soviet auto industry from Mexico to Colombia and Bolivia by helping drug traffickers in Latin America launder money. Relying on the advantages of simple maintenance, durable operation and durable leather of Soviet automobiles, Soviet automobiles have gradually gained a firm foothold in the low-end car market in Latin America in recent years. With the easing of relations between the Soviet Union and China, Soviet automotive products also began to be exported to China, which was the best opportunity for the development of the entire Soviet automobile industry. In the future, with the fall of the Iron Curtain, countries such as the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe will be hit by the developed commodity economies of the West. The best opportunity for the development of the Soviet automobile industry is fleeting, and whether or not he can seize this opportunity to raise the Soviet automobile industry to a higher level is the issue that Seryosha is most concerned about at present.

When Seryosha returned to the Gorky Automobile Factory, he was warmly welcomed by the workers, and as a big man who went out of the Gorky Automobile Factory, Seryosha was known to women and children throughout the Gorky region. Because of the fact that Seryosha has done a lot for the people over the years, Seryosha has a very good reputation among the people.

However, Seryosha is not here to consolidate friendship with everyone, he is here to find fault and give opinions. Seryo Saudily seconded several experts in automobile production management from Volkswagen to accompany him on a tour of the Gorky Automobile Plant. With the meticulous investigation along the way, Seryosha found a lot of problems. However, he did not ask these questions directly in front of everyone. He just listened with his ears and looked with his eyes without saying a word, and when he encountered a question that he did not understand, Seryosha would not ask questions like the person in charge of the Gower Machine Factory, but humbly asked the German advisers behind him for advice.

"Minister Ulyanov, is our work not doing our job well?" Seeing that Seryosha had a straight face all the way, the person in charge of the Gorky plant felt like a man on his back all the way. Over the past few years, the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation has given the Gorky plant a lot of benefits, that is, it has helped them open up the Latin American and Chinese markets, and it has also helped them bring in powerful partners such as Volkswagen. Relying on the joint venture cars produced in cooperation with Volkswagen, the Gorky Automobile Factory lived a prosperous life, but they also developed inertia because of this. During the visit just now, Seryosha found that there were many problems in the production line of the Volga automobile and the gas automobile production line of the Gorky plant. For example, the workers are lax, the production efficiency is low, the quality of the product has deteriorated greatly, and the utilization rate of raw materials is not high. This made Seryosha very angry.

Seryosha did not respond, he saw two workers working on the production line not far away, one of the older workers was doing his work seriously, and the younger worker looked like he was working, but his eyes drifted to Seryosha from time to time. Seeing this, Seryosha walked over unhurriedly.

"What are you doing?" Seryosha was full of aisles beside the two of them, and suddenly asked out loud.

"Ahh The older worker's master seemed to be extraordinarily serious, startled by Seryosha's sudden questioning, while the younger worker had long noticed Seryosha's arrival and greeted Seryosha from afar.

Seryosha stepped forward and shook hands with the two and asked for their names. The older one was called Lavrinenko, and the younger one was called Kozhdub. Both are workers responsible for the installation of car seats.

While Seryosha was talking to the two, someone had already come up to take over their work. This allowed Lavrinenko to finally answer Seryosha's question with peace of mind. Seryosha asked them about their work, and then began to talk about the history of the Gorky plant Volga cars.

"Comrade Lavrinenko, when did you come to work at the Gorky plant?"

"Me? It seems that I was here when the factory was first built, and it was desolate at first, and we had to live in tents in the winter. It was a very difficult time! Lavrinenko recalled earnestly.

"Remember when you produced the first Volga?" Seryosha asked again

"Of course, we remember that we gave our car to Comrade Stalin, and later our car won a gold medal at the World Exposition in Brussels, and we were all overjoyed...... Lavrinenko said excitedly.

"Comrade Kozhdub, do you like Volga cars?" Seryosha suddenly asked the young worker.

"I like it, of course I like it, after all, we assembled it ourselves!"

"What if you compare it to Volkswagen's cars?"

"Well, Volga is still very good......" Kozhdub said with some restraint.

"Tell the truth!" Seryosha smiled slightly, encouraging Kozhdub to speak out what he really thought in his heart.

"I still prefer Volkswagen!" Kozhdub replied honestly.

The conversation between Seryosha and the two workers was heard by everyone present, and the leaders of the Gorky plant had already sensed Seryosha's dissatisfaction with the Gorky plant. But in the end, they still don't quite understand.

"Do you know why the first cars produced at the Gorky plant won gold medals at international industrial fairs when the plant was first built, and decades later, our own workers look down on our products?" Seryosha suddenly asked the managers of the Gorky plant.

"We didn't do our job well, Secretary Ulyanov!" The person in charge of the Gorky plant hastened to admit his mistake.

"That's just one aspect, my comrade, you know, in 1935 there were only so many countries that could produce cars, and how many countries can produce cars now? It all comes down to the fact that the environment has changed, but we haven't. Do you know the consequences of continuing like this? Sooner or later, our Volga will be completely withdrawn from the market. Comrades of the Gorky Plant, do not think that you can not think of making progress because you are doing well on the joint venture vehicles. I tell you that the refrigerator factories, washing machine factories, and television factories that can't pay wages all think so. They think that as long as things are produced, there is no problem with the quality, everything will be fine, it is this kind of thinking that makes them lose their jobs, if you produce products that even your own workers don't like, then you are wasting resources and creating garbage......"