Chapter 684 Be friends with Starling
Yang Chao didn't know that in the original history of this trick, when Feng Da was in Soviet Russia, the Russians also played it, borrowed the hand of a waitress to tell Feng Da about the great improvement of their living standards, and Feng Da was stunned, and also wrote this incident into his memoirs, and everyone admired. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
Yang Chao is not an illiterate warlord like Feng Da, he only knows one thing, to this day, the level of consumer goods production in Soviet Russia has not yet returned to the tsarist era, the production of total consumer goods in society has been greatly reduced, while the wage income has increased, if it is true, there is only one result, money is worthless, because the corresponding consumer goods behind the money have been greatly reduced.
Of course, the economic structure of Soviet Russia, there may not be a currency depreciation, only the problem that the currency cannot be applied, they can't buy anything if they have money, in the past, the waitress took 3 rubles, and she could buy whatever she wanted, but now even if she really has 30 rubles, she has to queue up for what she wants to buy, and after waiting in line for several hours, she will probably be told that the goods are sold out.
Of course, there is a kind of person who does not need to queue up, and Stalin's establishment of a large number of special supply stores, in which the bureaucracy can buy enough goods, even high-end French fashion and perfumes, this is the means that Stalin's use to entrap the bureaucracy, but in this way, they still oppose Stalin, and if they don't kill them, kill anyone.
Yang Chao will not puncture Stalin's self-deceptive methods, but it is a little funny, with their level of understanding of the economy, they still want to deceive an expert-level figure like themselves, which is really ridiculous.
He didn't have any exciting stories with the waitress, because Yang Chao didn't dare, this woman Bacheng was a spy who knew what she would put on Yang Chao.
The next day, Yang Chao was invited to see Stalin, and in the face of such a terrifying figure, Yang Chao was really full of curiosity.
A living legend, is it God, is it the devil, is it a hero, or is it a butcher?
There are so many controversies about him that even historians can't tell the difference.
Stalin, as the legend goes, is unsmiling and speaks forcefully.
Yang Chao speaks with humor and eclecticism, but it is extremely convincing.
Yang Chao praised Stalin's exploits from the bottom of his heart and praised him for creating a miracle on earth, while Stalin's very modest said that it was the people of Soviet Russia who created a miracle.
Then the two expressed some views on the international situation, exchanged some attitudes, reached agreement on some issues, and disputed on others.
Stalin agreed with Yang Chao's idea of maintaining world peace, saying that this is also what Soviet Russia has always advocated, but opposing Yang Chao's determination that the Tyumen oil field is an asset belonging to Chinese investors, Shi Dalin said that the oil field belongs to all the people of Soviet Russia and is not inferior to any individual.
The two argued, Yang Chao could only helplessly say that out of sincerity to the friendship between China and the Soviet Union, China is willing to give up this oil field, but their investment must be made up, Stalin generously said that Soviet Russia is willing to pay China 1 billion US dollars immediately, pay off China's investment and loans, understand this confused account, but at the same time said that the Chinese garrison must be withdrawn from Tyumen, which Yang Chao affirmed, and was willing to withdraw after the agreement was reached.
The meeting was all happy, and there was no conspiracy as Stalin's imagination, which surprised him, as if Yang Chao had come here to give him a gift, and solved the outstanding case of the Tyumen oil field and was willing to return it to the Soviet Russian government.
In a trance, he was almost moved by Yang Chao's sincerity, but he soon came to his senses and firmly believed that this was an out-and-out imperialist who would never have a good impression of Soviet Russia.
But what Yang Chao wanted, he really couldn't say.
gave Stahlin such a big gift, and Yang Chao unceremoniously smiled at the two Moscow female students he sent to the door, but he was still worried about espionage, so he insisted on not drinking even at the dinner.
Yang Chao stayed in Moscow for three days, and there was still no out-of-the-ordinary behavior, which made Stalinbai vigilant.
Until the last day, Yang Chao proposed to meet the great writer Gorky, which made Stalin hesitate, but he finally agreed, because Gorky, the great writer, had long been recovered by him with political means without rank.
Gorky was already an old man, born in 1868, he was 68 years old, almost old.
But looking at his spirit, he seems to be glorious, and seems to be enjoying his life now.
Last year, the famous French writer Romain Rolland, who sympathized with the workers, visited Moscow and was surprised to find that even Gorky, a great proletarian writer, had great privileges, living in a splendid villa, and forty or fifty people were dedicated to Gorky's service.
Romain Rolland was very disappointed, "the great Bushwick team and leaders, who are the defenders of the country and the nation, are desperate to turn themselves into a special class", but Romain Rolland's account is not known to outsiders, because he wrote his will, and his diary can only be made public fifty years after his death, because he fears that his account will become a weapon for the enemy to attack the great Soviet Russia, and he still loves this workers' country deeply.
Romain Rolland only saw the appearance, Gorky was not only privileged, nominally, he was now the second person in Soviet Russia after Stalin, and his rank was very high.
He did enjoy the abundant material wealth, and had entered the Gong property and righteous society in advance, but his soul was degrading rapidly.
In Vladimir's time, Gorky was able to maintain his character, and when Vladimir wanted to implement press control, Gorky was strongly opposed, and he criticized that if Bushwick also refused to speak to others, then what was the difference between it and the tsarist regime that refused to speak to them.
As a result, Vladimir was extremely annoyed, but he did not execute Gorky like shooting Mensheviks and other intellectuals, firstly, Gorky's international reputation was too high, and the impact of executing him was too great, secondly, Gorky had helped Vladimir, Gorky was basically the heir to a huge fortune, and in order to support Vladimir, he gave him all the funds, very much like the Canadian Hongmen organization that sold the headquarters building to support Brother Pao, but unfortunately after taking power, Brother Pao turned his face and did not recognize people, Let the army pay attention to the arrest of the party members.
Vladimir finally personally persuaded Gorky to leave Soviet Russia, and Gorky later settled in Italy, where he lived hard under the surveillance of Mussolini's regime, I don't know if it was because of the hardships of life, or because he missed his homeland because he was old, and after Vladimir's death, Starling began to reconcile with him.
Stalin first made a big splash in the country, desperately exalted Gorky's greatness, held various exhibitions of his works, and asked Cheka agents to send funds to Gorky.
A few years later, everything fell into place, and Starling invited Gorky to return to China, and Gorky gladly complied.
After returning to China, Gorky no longer released remarks unfavorable to Soviet Russia, and put himself in a very correct position, he called Stalin, called Stalin, constantly wrote articles to praise Stalin, and used his fame to publish in international journals to promote Soviet Russia.
Stalin, on the other hand, reciprocated him with the highest honor, that in Soviet Russia, in a new city, the first street would be called Lenin Avenue, and the second street would not be Stalin's Avenue, but Gorky Street, and Stalin's name would make him the leader of the Russian Cultural Association, after which he named the garden, the city, the factory, and so on.
Having enjoyed a very high material treatment, already vain, or also in fear, Gorky chose to sell his soul.
In 29, a prisoner from the Solovets Island concentration camp in Soviet Russia fled to England, and then published a book "On Hell Island" to expose the inhumane behavior of Soviet Russia against prisoners, as well as a large number of unjust, false and wrongful convictions.
The book was very informative and therefore very informative.
In order to recover the loss, Stalin sent Gorky, a docile pet dog, and then Gorky took his daughter-in-law, accompanied by the leaders of the Security Bureau, to inspect Solovets Island, and the prison had already been arranged in advance.
When Gorky arrived at the prison, he found that it was completely new, with excellent facilities and a leisurely life, not only was there no abuse or beatings, but there was no forced labor, and the workers were lying on the benches leisurely, bathing in the Baltic afternoon summer, looking at the newspapers of the day, but all the newspapers were taken upside down, which was intended to tell Gorky that everything he saw was false, and hoped that Gorky could administer justice for them.
But Gorky ignored the prisoner's prompt, and refuted the rumors of Westerners at that time, saying that everything he saw proved that there was no darkness in the labor camps in Soviet Russia, and at this time a little boy couldn't help but come out and couldn't help shouting, "Gorky, what you see is fake, do you want to know the truth, let me tell you?" ”
Gorky was immediately shocked, and had a long private conversation with the little boy alone, and then, when he returned, he published an article in which he declared that Sorowitz had come to intimidate the people in the name of the eagle and the petrel that it was groundless, and that the mortals lived where they were very well healed and reformed.
Apparently this flying revolutionary petrel has transformed into a canary in the hands of Stalin, he covers up the gloom of Soviet Russia, and the little boy is shot when he turns around.
Yang Chao talked with Gorky for a long time, and he can still recite the Haiyan he learned in elementary school class, and he can't help but recite a few paragraphs to Gorky.
Finally, when I talked to him about the society of Soviet Russia, Gorky flatly denied the existence of the famine, believing that it was all rumors made by hostile forces, and that it was the malicious slander of the enemy who was active in the Western world and hidden within the people, and that the great Soviet Russia would never starve its own people to death.
Yang Chao couldn't help but sigh, did there still exist such a creature as "people" in Soviet Russia, I'm afraid there were only slaves.
At the same time, he had to sigh that Gorky was also one of these countless slaves.
"You are a real Slav!"
Yang Chao praised him when he left.
Gorky smiled awkwardly, as a great writer, of course he knew that Russia was one of the Slavs, and Slavism originally meant slaves in Western etymology.
"I'd love to talk to you. And Comrade Stalin! ”
Then Yang Chao said very politely.
He didn't care if Gorky would convey this sentence, he believed that the people around Gorky would definitely convey it. (To be continued.) )