Chapter 568: Ho Chi Minh Trail
"Just calculated, what are you going to do with so much money?" Valya hugged the man's neck from behind, and said in a very nice voice, "It seems that our national welfare expenditure is only more than 20 billion?" ”
"Of course it's used to make money, to make Americans' money!" Serov took out the calculation paper and burned it. In fact www.biquge.info this kind of work always makes his wife count one by one, and it is really not distressing, but he can't help it. Don't look at their house as a villa, but there is really no place to put a computer, Soviet computers at this time just began to use transistors, and they are at the beginning of the third generation of computers, but even then they are still very large in size and relatively average in performance.
The fourth generation of computers in the Soviet Union began to use large-scale integrated circuits, and the fourth generation of computers is the name of a series of supercomputer systems developed by the Soviet "Lebedev Institute of Precision Instruments and Computer Engineering"; Its model is comparable to that of the American SPARC system of its contemporaneity. In the process, Serov made a sense of presence, installed an expert, and designed a Soviet keyboard with the Russian alphabet. It can be regarded as a specification for Soviet computers.
If he could, Serov, a shameless person, would definitely install a computer in his home, how could he have nothing to do and let his wife settle accounts with calculation paper. Didn't he fiddle with Tetris without seeing that his daughter was fine?
"It's recovering well, are you getting better?" Serov, who had packed his things, asked very attentively while holding Mao Mei.
"Still a little tired, just take a day off! Who told you to use such a force! Valya's face turned red, and she accused in a tone called embarrassment, "My daughter has asked, why don't you go to work these two days?" ”
"This doesn't conform to the objective facts, obviously you said that you want to split my pelvis." Serov blamed me, he didn't think he should blame himself for this, it was obviously Mao Mei's strategic miscalculation, which led to her current fate.
"You still say ......" Valya threatened with a few random scratches with her teeth and claws, "that bad thing, cut it off......"
"Okay, it's better to cut it off!" Serov, who felt the coldness in his crotch, forced himself to calm down, "You don't want to use it anyway, cut it off!" ”
"Shameless!" Valya stretched out her hand and gently tugged at the man's face and said, "There are a few women who will definitely find me desperately!" ”
Obviously, you are reluctant, Serov looked appropriated, and almost laughed out loud in his heart. also rubbed the woman's smooth face with his stubble, which caused a burst of coquettishness.
The Soviet Union's foreign exchange reserves have not been much, because the Soviet Union basically has no channels to do business with the West, the only reserve is because Italy changed color, reserves billions of Italian lira, but since the health of Parimiro Torriatti, the Soviet Union is trying to exchange this money, if the Italian Communist Party steps down this time, I believe that the Soviet Union will not hesitate to find a way to turn the lira into dollars.
Two tens of billions of dollars is a lot of money, even in the seventies when the price of oil rose, it was a lot of money for the Soviet Union, let alone now. Kosygin contacted the allies of the Soviet Union through various channels, and even borrowed money from China. Compared with the four or five billion dollar reserves of Britain, France and Germany, the Soviet Union really had no advantage in this battle, and based on this consideration, Serov drained the KGB's funds around the world, and even began to renovate two destroyers that were almost old, and sold them to South American drug lords, but through North Korea.
In the eighties, the United States saw that the Soviet Union's foreign exchange reserves were mainly oil, which was then exchanged for grain, so it took several steps to seize every opportunity to restrict the West's technology trade exports to the Soviet Union, and to curb and crack down on those areas in which the Soviet Union could exchange foreign exchange. The Americans believed that the weakness of the USSR was that it was heavily dependent on oil exports, and that if international oil prices fell, the Soviet Union's ability to exchange exports for foreign exchange would decrease.
When the Soviet Union's foreign exchange reserves fell, sovereign risks increased, and the national banks of Western Europe would think twice about lending to it. The Soviet Union's ability to use Western Europe's loans to transform technology will decline, and the advantage of this will be that it will at least make the Soviet Union fall behind in the arms race with the United States. Second, if the Soviet Union goes all out to engage in an arms race with the United States, it will exhaust its strength, after all, the dollar is the world currency, and the ruble is not, and the United States can drag it down as long as it prints money at full speed. Third, the United States and Saudi Arabia have joined forces to suppress oil prices.
As soon as the price of oil fell, the foreign exchange exchanged for energy exported by the Soviet Union would shrink sharply. Fourth, the United States also imposed an agreement on the International Energy Agency to limit the amount of natural gas that Europe could buy from the Soviet Union, stipulating that Western Europe could not import more than one-third of its energy needs from the Soviet Union. cut off the Soviet Union's access to hard currency from Western Europe.
In the end, the United States went all out to start printing money and issued a large number of dollars. Reagan raised interest rates while issuing dollars aggressively. The result of the vigorous printing of money was the depreciation of the dollar, which shrank the real value of the foreign exchange exchanged by the Soviet Union. A quarter of the dollar's depreciation reduced the Soviet Union's real earnings from exports by a quarter.
The United States was able to succeed because the Soviet Union was no longer invulnerable in all respects, and one of the factors was that the Soviet Union did not have enough food to eat, and it had to be exchanged for trade with the major grain producers. All the major grain-producing countries only recognize the dollar, not the ruble, but now it is different, and the friendly relations with Italy for ten years have almost eliminated all the clumsy products of the Soviet Union, which is more fearless than the copycat Soviet Union, and the quality of Soviet products has been greatly improved in the past ten years, from taste to packaging.
The biggest effect of Italy's change of color was to open a gap in the technological blockade of the Soviet Union, and in this decade the Soviet Union learned everything that Italy had in the sixties through technological exchange and trade. However, Italy did not suffer, and the Soviet Union's technological reserves far exceeded those of any country except the United States, but the Soviet Union did not do a good job in utilizing them. On the contrary, much of the research has been used in Italy, which has so far been closely following the Federal Republic of Germany in terms of economic growth.
In terms of grain, after Sudan joined the Economic and Mutual Economic Association, the Soviet Union fully supported Sudan to become a powerful country in agriculture and animal husbandry, and the simple and direct destructive development caused Sudan's grain production to increase sharply every year in a short period of time, and the Soviet Union's own output did not need to import grain from the grain-producing areas under the control of the United States.
In other words, at this time, there was no need for the Soviet Union to communicate with the United States, the shortcomings had already been filled, and there was no need to ask you for food. As for the military industry, there is no need to communicate in this regard, this is a strong project of the USSR. There was no economic contact between the two sides, and the size of the Soviet Union's foreign exchange reserves was not large, and Kosygin kept visiting Eastern European countries to scrape together enough 20 billion.
"Now wait for the proud French, under the leadership of the unruly Charles de Gaulle, to be the first dragon slayer warriors." Mathematics experts drawn from the major secret service cities are already in place, and for these people, this is just a drill to simulate a financial attack on the United States, and they have no idea that it is really a shot.
At the same time, as the chairman of the KGB, Serov will also pay attention to Kosygin's actions, Kosygin specially let his assistant evaluate this operation, this is a single note, Kosygin does not know that the KGB is also ready to act together.
"If I fail, I don't need to kill myself. In this way, the efforts of the KGB for more than ten years were in vain, and the capital chains of all industries were broken. Serov thought about it carefully and felt that he had estimated the consequences too seriously, it would not be like this, the KGB still had many shady industries, and it was a big deal that they could be slowly recovered.
Just as Kosygin and Serov were secretly preparing to wait for the opportunity, a KGB officer with a secret mission arrived in Hanoi and met with the military leader of the Hanoi side, Vu Yuanjia.
"Comrade Andropov, Secretary of the Central Committee, and Senior General Serov, our Chairman, both appreciate Hanoi's determination to work overtime to manufacture the weapons needed by the Vietnamese comrades and help the Vietnamese comrades get rid of the war imposed by imperialism as soon as possible. Of course, I can translate it for you. After reading the letter, KGB officer Yegrov introduced himself, "I have worked in Southeast Asia, last time in Indonesia, and this time I was in charge of the transportation of weapons from within the Soviet Union to Hanoi to help the Vietnamese comrades prepare for war. ”
"Thank you Comrade Andropov and General Serov for their help, we are forever grateful to the USSR." Wu Yuanjia sincerely thanked, "The Soviet Union will provide us with the weapons and equipment we urgently need, which makes us very grateful." ”
"You're welcome!" Yegrove replied coldly, but amicably. There was a stalemate on the battlefield in Vietnam. Although the U.S. military had absolute superiority in strength and technology, it was still helpless in the face of attacks by the regular North Vietnamese army and the guerrillas in South Vietnam. The protracted war has made the anti-war voice in the United States louder and louder. Baines? President Johnson is facing the greatest political pressure since his election as president; On the other hand, the Hanoi government is also feeling a lot of pressure, and the superior strength and modern weapons of the US military have caused serious losses in its armed forces, and its morale is somewhat low. If this situation is not quickly changed, the outcome of the War of Resistance Against the United States will be unimaginable. In order to reverse this unfavorable situation, it is necessary to choose the right time to strike a fierce blow at the US military. It was against this background that the Minister of Defense of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, General Vo Nguyen Giap, began to hatch a plan in his head.
Wu Yuanjia knew that the combat effectiveness of the US army in a frontal battle was far above that of Vietnam, but he had no choice, but at this time, the Soviet Union sent a liaison officer, saying that the Soviet Union was willing to see the US army defeated, so that he had an idea, more adequate preparation, and better weapons to launch this decisive offensive.
Beginning in October, the Soviet Trans-Siberian Railway was busy, crossing China to deliver freshly manufactured weapons to Hanoi, and Hanoi had its own way of delivering them to the intended attacking force. This is the Ho Chi Minh Trail. (To be continued.) )