Chapter 331 331 The Beginning of Upheaval

Just because China is as quiet as a flat lake doesn't mean the rest of the world is so serene and calm.

In the summer of that year, two major events began to topple the dominoes of the entire socialist camp in Eastern Europe: the Polish election and the "European Picnic Plan".

Poland was the first country to undergo drastic changes, and in the early eighties, the electrician Walesa formed the "Solidarity", which was also the first trade union organization in Eastern Europe to be independent of the system, and its establishment had a strong political purpose in itself. Throughout the eighties, Poland followed the Soviet Union in a rightward turn, seeking so-called socialist innovation, and did little to condone the opposition forces such as Walesa. Taking advantage of this opportunity, Walesa organized Solidarity to launch a number of national, high-impact strikes and to demonstrate its political influence to the United Workers' Party in power.

The weak ruling party has not made any reflection on such a situation, or it has been a failure. They also mistakenly believed that Solidarity, which was able to organise mass strike action, had a relatively large public base and that the completion of the new reform required broad public approval, so the United Workers' Party not only did not continue to maintain the action of banning Solidarity, nor did it restrict it, but frequently communicated and talked with it.

First, the Rakovsky period wanted to draw a constructive opposition to power, and three ministers were allocated to Solidarity, and Walesa still had no intention of doing so. Immediately afterwards, the ruling party retreated again and held a "constructive and equal" roundtable with Solidarity to discuss reforms.

It can be said that the position of Solidarity naturally has its own efforts, but it is more the result of the blind retreat of the Polish authorities who are not clear-headed, and take the initiative to pull it in. Many Poles saw that Solidarity was so powerful, so let's support it too, and as a result, Solidarity became more and more influential.

Taking advantage of the round table, Solidarity fulfilled almost all of its political demands, first legalizing Solidarity's political status, and then reaching a representative system that would change unicameral to bicameral, with 65% of the seats in the House of Representatives and free universal suffrage in the Senate.

In the eyes of Qi Yiming and other Chinese comrades, the actions of the Polish United Workers' Party are simply unbelievable, and Qi Yiming also feels that first of all, the Polish ruling party has lost its confidence in itself. They lack faith and persistence in the red cause, and they are also confused and helpless about the future, and they also lack confidence in the system, and they also lack confidence in their ability to turn the tide and change the country for the better. So they habitually compromised, compromised, continued to compromise, continued to compromise, and finally their weakness and incompetence cultivated Solidarity, and public opinion under the peaceful evolution also fell to Walesan's side.

In the national elections in June, Solidarity won 35 per cent of the seats in the House of Representatives and 99 per cent in the Senate. Mazovietsky served.

In the early 80s, the United Workers' Party headed by Jaruzelsky used the "wartime state" to control the voices of opposition in the country one after another, and pushed the people into the opposition. At that time, Jaruzelsky was shouting forgiveness at home, and at the same time he was afraid that he might be sent to Moscow blindfolded at any time, and the Soviet steel torrent would drive into Warsaw like the Prague Spring.

In the era of Goe, not only the Soviet Union committed suicide, but also led other socialist countries to commit suicide, so Gorbachev agreed with and acquiesced in the "great reconciliation" in the Soviet Union. This also directly led to the continuous regression of Jaruzelsky and the United Workers' Party, which had been accustomed to being soft bones, and directly led to the existence of the "party leadership" in name only.

Everything that happened in Poland was foreseen by Qi Yiming and the Strategic Bureau, but because Poland was not in Qi Yiming's big territory, it could only be abandoned. Poland is indicative to the West, and the West will not rest on its laurels unless it collapses, and they will not tolerate being replaced by China's power after the Soviet Union's influence has waned. In addition, most of the Eastern European countries did not have very good relations with China because of the bad relations between China and the Soviet Union, so their exchanges with each other were limited, and it was very difficult for Qi Yiming to do something.

For some Asian countries, Qi Yiming can rub it at his fingertips, because China does have influence in the region, and for Eastern European countries, first of all, it is too far, and even if people are in economic difficulties, they are actually much better than Chinese in absolute terms.

As a person who can see the future development, Qi Yiming also knows what kind of people like Walesa are in many Eastern European countries like Poland. This person won the Nobel Peace Prize in '83, and he has won more similar awards and honors. He met with the president of the United States, the pope and the like, and used this to say that he had their support. However, in the real sense, the character of this night school electrician is actually those restless black sheep in ordinary state-owned factories, who have no real ability to govern the country, and are good at mixing things up and organizing mass activities, but when it comes to real things, there is no use for fart.

On the other hand, Walesa usurped Jaruzelski's presidency in 1990, but lost to the former red party in the 1995 re-election. In the millennium, this person was unwilling to be lonely and ran again, but only won 1. 01% of the votes. Poland once had two satirical Walesa songs that swept the country, one was "Never Trust the Electrician" and the other was "Walesa, where did my 100 million dollars go"

Oriana, a well-known female journalist in the world? Farage has interviewed Walesa and described him as "arrogant, ignorant, and aggressive, and unable to respect her", but due to political issues, he still portrays her as an anti-**** and authoritarian standard-bearer of democracy and freedom.

In addition to his incompetence in economic recovery, Walesa is also criticized for mixing the secular with the religious, which has made many Poles unhappy. Some even consider Walesa to be a puppet and lackey of the Church, and during his tenure he carried out a great deal of religious influence on the entire country against the tide of the times.

Also in the summer, another major event that also took place under the acquiescence of the Soviet Union was the "European Picnic Plan". Hungary, a socialist country, began to dismantle the barbed wire fence on its border with Austria and allowed thousands of East German refugees to cross the border into Austria and then into West Germany. As soon as this opening was opened, it had a direct impact on the existing system of the two Germanys, and more and more residents of the red countries planned to flee to the west to enjoy the "democracy and freedom" they coveted, and of course many more to be able to live a better life.

Earlier, East Germany also eased restrictions on entry and exit, and in the following year, there were three relatively large waves of migration, with about 100,000 East Germans fleeing to West Germany. At this time, no matter how the East German authorities tried to remedy it, they could not extinguish the fire. First of all, the ruling authorities have a vacillating policy direction, sometimes relaxed, sometimes strengthened, and when more and more people are incited to take to the streets to protest against the existing system and want to be more open and democratic, whether this consensus is instigated or people already have it, there is a very large pressure of public opinion anyway.

In a country like China, it is very difficult to build a consensus of a billion people, because the large rural population and the low level of development are themselves the soil of the dictatorship of the proletariat, and it is relatively difficult for the intellectuals and the middle and upper classes to be agitated by foreign forces, and it is relatively difficult to impress these people who are more concerned with the so-called ideological problems of real life, and who have a sense of trust and attachment to the CPC.

In response to his country's problems, Qi Yiming also took a lot of preventive shots. For example, the various laws and regulations that are becoming more and more detailed and the development of the legal system are promoted, and the red lines are drawn one step ahead of the curve, what can be done and what cannot be done. The enactment of some new principles has indeed boosted the arrogance of some rightists, for example, it has been written in the national constitution that private property is also sacred and inviolable, and that the people's basic rights are guaranteed. Naturally, they wanted to be as successful as all revolutionaries, but not as successful as the Eastern European countries.

First of all, the state began to propagate the new socialist concept of righteousness and benefit, which combined many ideas from the early years with newly developed things, as well as some traditional cultural views. Basically, it is "a gentleman loves money and takes it in a good way", and there is also an emphasis on the opposition and unity of the individual and society. It is good for a businessman to be able to make a fortune, but only if the way to get rich is legal. At the same time, the operator should consider what exactly is the purpose of making a fortune. Qi Yiming wrote a theoretical work that believes that the wealth of private operators is a manifestation of creating social wealth and promoting social progress while achieving better living conditions for individuals. An honest and respectable operator is worthy of admiration for operating legally to get rich, but the ultimate goal of getting rich is for the progress and development of society.

When there is a conflict between personal interests and social interests, it is necessary to have the spirit of altruism, and for the well-being of more people and the interests of future people, we should have the concept of "valuing righteousness over profit". In the case of being able to benefit both society and oneself, the accumulation of personal wealth is worthy of recognition.

Therefore, capitalism's set of profits is the source of everything, which has been communized and localized, and Qi's philosophy also mentions that the development of human civilization needs to eliminate simple selfishness and rely more on people's consciousness. As a result, socialism has truly broken away from the bloody and arrogant trap of capitalism and risen to a truly progressive and promising social system.

Qi Yiming felt that the social system under a set of ideology is not only a matter of how to carry out political management, but also the people's ideology, the level of productive forces, the external environment, and other conditions all play a certain role. The improvement of the socialist cause in the country is by no means something that can be completed by erecting a framework like the Soviet Union, and there are still quite a few places that need to be perfected.