Chapter 752: The G7
The war began without earth-shattering terrific terrifies throughout the world. Even at the beginning www.biquge.info even Thailand itself did not immediately discover that in this era, Southeast Asian countries full of guerrillas were already in the midst of bloodshed. The major European and American countries are saving themselves from the economic crisis, and they have not paid attention to the movements in Southeast Asia at all, and guerrilla warfare is too easy to detect, while the countries that are most adept at fighting guerrilla warfare in the 70s are the ones who are most adept at fighting guerrilla warfare.
The rapid expansion of the Soviet Union was most evident in the Near and Middle East directions, where the Near East attacked Turkey on its own hands, and in the Middle East, it supported the traditional military powers of the Middle East, Egypt, Syria and Iraq. The momentum created is far more than other places, and even a small country like Portugal has gained far more attention than Thailand, not to mention Chile's Allende, which has eyebrows with Cuba, the United States has too many areas to pay attention to, and from the perspective of value, Thailand in Southeast Asia is really not the most urgent problem, anyway, there has always been a Communist Party in Thailand, which is nothing new.
Europe first and then Asia is not just talking, this is the unanimous thinking of the major powers for 200 years, and the strategic deployment for many years has been carried out around this thinking, and the Warsaw Pact and NATO will gather large armies and start a confrontation. Therefore, for the United States, on the one hand, it is how to delay the attack of the Soviet Union when its own kidneys are weak, and on the other hand, it is to adjust its internal injuries as soon as possible, otherwise at the current rate, the Soviet Union will sooner or later begin to try to use its brains against Europe.
As for other countries, in this worldwide scramble, the United States has its own guarantee in mind which countries are worth saving, and which countries are just stumbling blocks to delay the Soviet Union's attack, among which Turkey is very important, but the Soviet Union quickly took out Turkey, it can be said that the whole process is not scientific at all, there is no troop movement, that is, the local army moves, there is no supply and transportation, as if all the preparations for war were completed overnight.
Now the Pentagon has determined that it will take up to ten years of preparation to prepare everything without being detected, and then this piece of news was quickly handed over to Iran, as a neighboring country, Iran has seen with its own eyes how Turkey is being dismembered, and the entire country's war readiness has never been more serious.
Compared with the jungle guerrilla warfare in Southeast Asia, many things in the world are extremely important, and for Western Europe, how to save itself is the most important thing at present, and if the situation continues to deteriorate and unemployment increases, it will be about to revolution. The relaxation of restrictions on exports to the USSR was only a hemostatic agent for them. To get out of the economic crisis, we still have to rely on ourselves to adjust.
"I hope that other countries will understand that if we are not tightly united, whether we face the United States or the Soviet Union, we will not be able to escape the end of being controlled, and Europe can only unite to save itself. Either we will always be the puppets of the Americans, or we will be the puppets of the Soviets after the revolution, and if we continue to fight alone, Europe will sink forever. ”
The sudden attack of the Soviet Union on Turkey cut off the land links between Western Europe and Asia, and also made Western European countries begin to think about how to deal with the Soviet Union. In particular, if the Soviet Union has abundant resources and is still giving blood transfusions to Eastern European countries, if this trend continues for several decades, the strength of the two sides will definitely be reversed in Europe, not a military reversal, the military superiority itself is on the side of the Soviet Union, but a dual economic and military advantage, in which case Western Europe will not even have the capital to maintain balance.
After the Turkish war, the French newspapers began to have the voice of European unity, not the current cooperation, but more closely united, adjusting their industries out of the economic crisis. All countries understand this truth, and if the Western European countries are still like this, they will have no chance of winning in the face of either the United States or the Soviet Union.
After the war, the United States injected large amounts of capital into Western Europe and Japan in the form of loans to kick-start their economies. The cornerstone of this international monetary system is the fixed rate of 35 dollars per ounce of gold for the United States dollar. However, in the long term, the United States does not have the strength to provide sustained capital to the entire world economy. The U.S. foreign payment deficit has risen, and the situation has worsened with the Vietnam War, and the U.S. gold reserves have been dwindling. Unable to maintain the fixed exchange rate of the dollar against gold, President Nixon announced that the dollar was off the gold standard. With the collapse of the Bretton Woods system, inflation is spiraling, and now there is the worst world recession since the thirties, and in country after country, the class struggle is flourishing. This is the dilemma facing Europe now, and who knows if the Soviet Union will see that the situation is good and start a world revolution with the ideas of the Fourth International?
The Soviet Rubyanka, the KGB headquarters, and Moscow in April and May were also pleasantly weathered, and for the whole Soviet Union, after General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev showed concern about the housing issue, the Soviet Union ushered in another construction boom after the Khrushchev Building. In all cities, you can see tall tower cranes working intensively, and construction workers in hard hats are sweating and sweating.
As the capital of the Soviet Union, Moscow's population pressure has always been heavy, and even if the Soviet Union has a strict hukou system and no conditions for people to move at will, it still can't stop Moscow's population from expanding further. The capital is the face of a country, and no one wants the capital to be the same, even if the rest of the world is a little behind.
The first secretary of the Moscow Municipal Party Committee, Grishen, first responded to the call of General Secretary Brezhnev to solve the housing problem, and began to plan the construction of Moscow's city.
Some of the buildings that have completed the main building have already had the shadow of the Chinese community in later generations. It should be said that in terms of hardware, it should be stronger than the average Chinese community, at least it will not make a fuss about the shared area. It is estimated that if Serov does not educate the municipal cadres in various places, no one will think of making a fuss about the shared area, at least not in the short term.
These projects are actually similar to what he did in the KGB, except that this time Brezhnev personally gave orders, and the scale was much larger than the scale he himself tossed in the department. Some functional cities in important mining areas, as well as small forestry towns, can cover the entire population almost in one go.
In this five-year plan, 40 million people will be covered by the construction of housing, which is far less efficient than that of later generations of China. In addition to the residents of the bungalows, who have fallen into disrepair, functional city dwellers, military families and cadres, and residents who have not actually lived in the Khrushchev building, in this sense, the residents who lived in the Khrushchev building first can no longer benefit from Brezhnev's policy, there is no way, and the fate is so wonderful.
The Soviet Union has not yet been able to get all the Soviets at once the communist life depicted by Lenin with the upstairs and downstairs electric lights and telephones, and this expenditure is so huge that once it is implemented, it will be a black hole in the budget for military and welfare spending.
But from the investigation, at the moment the KGB has not found anyone who is dissatisfied with this policy within the coverage area, at least not in Moscow, the state bears most of the cost, and you get a good house, what else do you not like.
"Chairman, three pieces of information, two of which are from Europe and one from Southeast Asia, are all relatively valuable news." The head of the General Affairs Department, Servanov, pushed open the door, walked over and put the information directly on the table.
"Hmm!" Serov did not stop writing and finished the last few sentences. Directly starting to look through the intelligence, after the entry of the guerrilla warfare in Southeast Asia into Vietnam, it was somewhat like the development of movement warfare, and it seemed that a hard-fought positional war was about to come. Thailand's big cities are still controlled by government forces for the time being, but the rural areas have obviously been controlled by the Thai Communist Party, much like South Vietnam a few years ago, and the more similar place is that Thailand's urban population is also at a disadvantage, after all, except for Europe and the United States, every country has an urban population that accounts for the majority.
"Are the French trying to convene a conference in Paris, including the United States, Japan, Great Britain, Germany, and themselves, to study together a way to resist the economic crisis?" One word immediately flashed through Serov's mind, the G7. The G7 came into being to jointly resolve the world economic and currency crisis, coordinate economic policies, and revitalize the Western economy.
Of course, the Plaza Accord benefited the United States the most, and it cannot be ruled out that the United States was whitewashing itself in the name of the collective. Doesn't the United States always do this kind of thing?
However, what I didn't expect was that the country that was first proposed by the G7 was actually the French, and the proud French may not have the intention of getting rid of the United States and going it alone at first, but after leaving the United States and Western Europe, they still couldn't solve the problem on their own, so they pulled the Americans in. However, comparing the economic scale of France and the United States, once the United States comes in, it will definitely be anti-customer, and it does not look at the size difference between the two sides.
"You can't stop it, I'm not really Yuri......" Serov shook his head slightly, does the G7 have a role? Of course, at least the G7 quickly passed the economic crisis, and the United States redivided the economic interests of various countries, and since the establishment of the G7, other capitalist countries are no longer exactly puppets of the United States, except for Japan and the Federal Republic of Germany.
There is a process for everything, and the economic crisis will not worsen again in 1975, but it will not take a few years to completely erase the impact and repair the damage this time. In recent years, the USSR still had room to operate. (To be continued.) )