Chapter 811: The USS America Sinks
"What a good actor. Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info "Watching the speech of the President of the United States on the TV, Andrei seemed to see the mustache, at the beginning, the German mustache would also incite people's hearts like this!
"Behind me, there stood a wall that surrounded the free land of the city, which itself was only part of the great wall that divided the entire European continent. From the Baltic Sea to the south, the barrier was a stretch of barbed wire, concrete poured, dogs patrolling, and guard towers. Further south, there may not be a visible wall, but there are still armed guards and checkpoints - still restricting people's freedom of movement, still imposing the will of the totalitarian state on every ordinary man and woman..."
"As long as the door is closed, as long as the scars of this wall are still allowed to exist, it is not just the German problem that remains, but the question of the freedom of humanity as a whole. I am not here to mourn, because I have found hope in Berlin that even in the shadow of this wall there is still news of victory. ”
"Decades ago, when the people of Berlin stepped out of their hideouts, they found it a mess. Thousands of miles away, the American people have reached out. At that time, the Marshall Plan was proposed, and our policy was not directed against any country, against any doctrine, but against hunger, poverty, despair and chaos..."
"The Americans want to divert the contradictions in Germany." Although that Reagan is still falling, Andrei knows President Reagan's purpose, and the speech he delivered today at the door of this Brandenburg Gate is to divert the contradictions within NATO! Now the Germans are dissatisfied with their status quo and have begun to resent the United States, so Reagan must divert their attention and tell them that the greatest hatred comes from the Soviet Union! It was the USSR that split them by force! The Berlin Wall, in particular, separates them from each other.
"yes, Reagan's ploy is really vicious!" On the side, Foreign Minister Gromyko also frowned, as this speech was broadcast live around the world, more and more Westerners will shift their hateful eyes to the Soviet Union. In the Cold War, the two sides faced each other, and for Westerners, the domestic economic crisis was one thing, and the other main aspect was the struggle for hegemony with the Soviet Union!
The rise of the USSR must be accompanied by a threat to them! And they will be able to confront only if they are close to the United States and form a whole! In this way, their opposition to the United States will naturally be less!
"Andrey, what do you think we should do?" Andropov asked Andrei.
Originally, Andrei was already planning to return to Uzbekistan, but it was because he heard that the Americans were going to give a speech at the Berlin Wall that Andrei postponed his trip and worked together to study countermeasures.
"I guess Reagan will definitely make two demands, one for both of us to reduce nuclear weapons, and one for us to tear down this wall." Andrei said.
Just after that, inside the TV, Reagan was waving his fist and shouting at the Berlin Wall.
"In the 50s, Khrushchev prophesied: 'We will bury you'. But today, our Western world is prosperous and tranquil. We are still enjoying what the free world has to offer. In front of the whole world, stands a great and inevitable conclusion: freedom leads to prosperity, and freedom replaces the age-old hatred between nations with comity and tolerance. Freedom is the winner! Moreover, we can see that the Soviet Union is also undergoing reforms, and their economic enterprises have been allowed to have more autonomy. They also began to tentatively carry out the market-oriented development of the economy, which is definitely not tinkering without changing the Soviet system! The Soviets have also realized that a free market will allow society to develop! And the progress of human freedom will only strengthen the peace of the world. Soviets, haven't you always advocated democracy and freedom? Aren't you also campaigning for democratic elections in the Middle East? Don't you keep saying that you want to bring happiness to all mankind in the world? Why watch the agony of the division of the German people? Soviets, please come to this door. Please open this door! Please tear this wall down! Please give back to Berlin and the happiness of the German people! ”
Andropov's eyes lit up: "Andrey, you really have the talent of directing, you know what this actor is going to say next!" ”
Andrei also sighed in his heart that in later generations, Reagan's speech caused a sensation all over the world, but at that time, the edifice of the Soviet Union was about to collapse, and the younger brothers in Eastern Europe did not want to follow Big Brother for a long time. At that time, Reagan's speech succeeded in overthrowing the Berlin Wall and depriving the Soviet Union of its control over Germany and Eastern Europe.
But what about now? The situation is different! At that time, the Berlin Wall was built because West Germany had a rapid economy and developed very well, and East Germans continued to flee to West Germany.
And now? The environment in East Germany was far better than in West Germany! Needless to say, just a high oil price has pulled down the economy of West Germany, high oil prices, high transportation costs, resulting in the entire high cost of living, many enterprises are on the verge of bankruptcy, and the economy of West Germany has been declining rapidly!
But what about the GDR? In recent years, with the continuous reform of the Soviet Union, the economy of East Germany has also been constantly rejuvenated! In particular, last year, Moscow set up a new microelectronics company in East Germany to produce Moscow-designed personal computers, which were sold throughout Eastern Europe!
Although the international oil price is very high, in the areas controlled by the Soviet Union, the entire socialist camp in Eastern Europe, still enjoys low-cost oil resources, which is also an advantage of the planned economy! The state monopolizes the production and sale of the entire oil, externally, for example, in Western Europe, it is exported according to international oil prices, and internally, as long as it is higher than the cost! So, the price of fuel at gas stations in East Germany was only one-fifth of that in West Germany!
Now, Reagan is still talking about the Berlin Wall, asking the Soviet Union to tear down the Berlin Wall so that the Germans will no longer have the pain of splitting, and they seem to have forgotten that it was not only the Soviet Union, the United States, Britain and France that put forward the plan to split Germany, but they all agreed!
Now, with the Berlin Wall being torn down, will the East Germans flee to the West? As long as West Germans understand the economic development of East Germany and the cost of living, I am afraid they will prefer to stay in East Germany!
Lifting a stone to shoot himself in the foot, Reagan still doesn't understand the psychology of the Germans! Please open this door! Please tear down the wall! (To be continued.) )