Seryosha's official reason for visiting the Czech Republic is to inspect the country's automotive industry, where the famous car factory Skoda is located in the small town of Mdala near the Czech capital, Prague. Perhaps because of his long life at the Gorky Automobile Plant, Seryosha has always had a soft spot for the automotive industry. In fact, measured by the industrial level, the overall quality of Soviet automobile products is still good, and sturdiness and durability are the greatest advantages of Soviet automobiles. Considering that 2,000 years later, there are still old-fashioned gas cars transporting goods between the two countries on the border between China and Mongolia, so Seryosha does not feel that the Soviet automobile industry has reached a point of incorrigibility.

However, whether it is the Gorky Automobile Plant, the AvtoVAZ Automobile Plant, or the Likhachev Automobile Plant in Moscow, it is still in the hands of the state, and according to Gorbachev's reform ideas, these three automobile companies will be given more autonomy in the future, but when the state's planned economy committee issues production plans, these factories will still have to make every effort to meet the needs of the state.

This also means that the state-owned enterprises of the Soviet Union will have to withstand the test of the market economy in the future, and at the same time will have to bear the burden of the planned economy. This is a typical two-track system, in which the factory managers are given a certain degree of autonomy in production, but they also bear a large burden, because they need to raise their own capital and technology for production. This is typical of wanting the horse to run fast and not eating grass.

Seryosha bets that there are few state-owned enterprises that can play well under the dual-track system. However, it was still a good opportunity, a good opportunity for Seryosha to inherit the legacy of the Soviet automobile industry.

A gap has been opened in the private sector in the Soviet Union, and the youth science and technology and cultural center established by Seryosha in the Komsomol will be the biggest beneficiary of this policy, but these petty businesses are no longer of energy for Seryosha to pay attention to. He's thinking about bigger issues. That is to find a suitable overseas automobile industry group, control him through Blackstone, and then in turn buy these car companies in Eastern Europe like Skoda, Gorky and so on. Seryosha had his sights set on Volkswagen, the famous automotive group in the Federal Republic of Germany.

Originally, during the New Year's holiday, Seryosha didn't want to be busy with work, but the Czech officials paid too much attention to him, the minister who came on vacation, so Seryosha had to be busy with socializing, but Seryosha still put off all evening activities and concentrated on staying with his family.

Seryosha likes this kind of dull life, as early as a few years ago, because of Andropov's anti-corruption and other changes in the domestic environment, Seryosha sent his most beloved people to Switzerland. Because he is also not sure whether he will be implicated, this is a last resort to protect himself, and the reason why Seryosha has never married is also because of this. Seryosha hopes that everything will wait until after the collapse of the Soviet Union to get back on track.

During Seryosha's stay in the Czech Republic, he learned about the changes in the country through Yulia, and during the New Year's holiday, Ligachev was not at all happy, while Gennady Yanayev, the top head of the national trade union system, became the captain of the firefights and flew to Donetsk, Gorky and other places to quell the workers' protests there.

Because of the principle of openness, Gorbachev tied his hands and feet, and could not prohibit Yeltsin from expressing his views. In order to prevent these two departments from joining forces to suppress the petitions and protests of Moscow citizens, Yeltsin used his power to begin a large-scale reduction of the KGB and the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Moscow.

The development of events was completely unexpected by Seryosha, and now his own Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation is safe for the time being. As long as no one knows that Seryosha is behind all this, then Ligachev will not push Seryosha to his side for the time being.

Just when Seryosha thought that the holiday would be quiet forever, an unexpected guest made Yuri and Ivankov busy again.

The guest was none other than Poland's opposition leader, Walesa. Now that Yuri and Ivankov have regained their status as free, they have been removed from the wanted list by the United States. The main reason is that they are regarded as key members of the Vatican and Polish opposition.

The opposition in Poland was far less important to the Gorky Brotherhood than the Italian mafia and the Medellín bloc, but Seryosha knew they were the most promising. It should be just two years from now, and the communist regimes in Eastern Europe will fall like dominoes, one by one. The communist regime in Poland was the first to fall.

"Dear Yuri, my comrade! I'm sorry to bother you during the New Year, but I've seen some good news in the newspapers lately, and I thought maybe our Solidarity opportunity was coming. Walesa said expectantly and a little nervously.

"Chairman Walesa, if you have anything to say, you don't have to be polite between us!" Yuri guessed as soon as he saw Walesa's expression, and nine times out of ten, he came to borrow money. Despite its reputation, Solidarity has been fighting the Polish government for eight years since 1979. In the past eight years, Solidarity's momentum has deteriorated day by day, under the joint suppression of Poland and the Soviet Union, this organization has reached the point of survival, at the beginning of the illusion that Solidarity can change Poland and those countries in Western Europe are no longer supporting them, because they are not optimistic about the future development of Solidarity, and now only Seryosha's Gorky Brotherhood can help Solidarity except the Vatican Pope. But the Gorky Brotherhood was only using Solidarity. It never occurred to join them in activities against the Soviet government.

"Yuri, I learned from the newspapers that a strike was taking place in Donetsk in the Soviet Union, and I felt that this was an opportunity. So I want to get some help from you guys to help us do another nationwide strike. We want to force the Polish government to accept our claims. Walesa pleaded with his scalp, he felt that he was now simply a flower child, and he was everywhere. Although she won the Nobel Peace Prize, Walesa's background as a hydropower worker made her not favored in Western political circles, but a strike means that a large number of workers have no income, and without the support of the financiers, it would be a fool's dream to plan a national strike in Poland.