The Soviet Union inevitably collapsed, and Gorbachev's new thinking, the head of the map, was like a poisonous fruit that swallowed the huge coalition of socialist countries, and then became terminally ill and dying.

The consequences of the long-term Cold War confrontation finally appeared at this moment, ignoring their own economic capabilities, unrealistically engaging in arms confrontation, and lacking a flexible strategic approach, the Mao Xiong family finally slowed down and began to gasp for breath after overturning the crowd with a mighty momentum, and finally had to support his knees and stick out his tongue, watching the bald eagle and a group of younger brothers start to laugh at him in front.

The imbalance in economic development, the excessive concentration of the military industry, and the inadequacy of the manufacture of ordinary consumer goods, of course, there is another reason that people generally ignore, or Westerners do not want to admit, that is, the Soviet Union has implemented a high welfare social treatment for 20 years, and the rigid model of planning the economy has made the distribution of welfare inflexible and wasteful, and other unnecessary phenomena, which have also brought a lot of disasters to the Soviet economy.

The Chinese writer Wang Meng once visited the Soviet Union and later wrote "The Tide of Visiting the Soviet Union", which recorded a lot of details about the standard of living in the Soviet Union: from Tbilisi, Georgia to Moscow, a three-and-a-half-hour flight, only 37 rubles; The Soviet food was still good, large bread was supplied cheaply, in unlimited quantities, especially black bread, in Moscow state stores, a kilogram (that is, two catties) of beef was sold for 2-3 rubles, and on the free market in Tbilisi, fresh, excellent lamb cost 10 rubles per kilogram; The price of the book and the offer are relatively cheap. Tickets for theatrical performances (including) films are also significantly lower than in the West, and the Bolshoi Theatre to see Rimsky-Korsakov's opera "The Tsar's Fiancée" costs 3 roubles. If you see a show of the same size in New York, I'm afraid you will have to pay $50; Public transport, plane tickets, train tickets are cheap. Moscow's underground railways are densely packed and criss-crossed, and each station is beautifully built and well managed, with a single metro ride taking only 10 kopecks. The New York subway in the United States, which is known as convenient, is not only dirty, but also often violent (robbery, ****, homicide), which is really unattainable......

At the end of the seventies, the living standards of the Soviet people reached a fairly high level, the supply of commodities was sufficient, prices were low, a large number of new houses were allocated, durable consumer goods such as televisions, refrigerators, and washing machines were rapidly popularized, and the savings of the people were also increasing, and the purchasing power of the Soviet people was almost equivalent to the purchasing power of the Chinese after the new century.

Originally, with the resources and industrial capacity of the Soviet Union, coupled with the decent number of people, it was nothing to support a set of effective welfare system, but under the rigid system of the Soviet Union, the welfare system operated very detached from reality, and the welfare system not only did not produce money and develop benignly, but could only bring more and more burdens to government spending. It can be said that the social welfare system of the Soviet Union is a typical set of unrealistically high welfare systems that can be supported by insufficient economic development.

The lack of competition under the planning system, although the level of welfare and education has been improved, the labor productivity of the entire economy will not increase correspondingly, but it will only encourage more people who have little motivation for development to move to decent and simple jobs, resulting in a large number of redundant personnel and lax work discipline in white-collar posts, while there is a serious shortage of personnel in blue-collar posts. Counting the administrative system, which is not very clean, there are also a large number of backdoor and corruption phenomena, which have dragged down the development of the entire Soviet Union.

Such a high-welfare system may seem like a blessing for people's lives, but it is impossible for things that are not normal to maintain a healthy life for a long time, so in the later period, a series of problems such as inflation, soaring prices, commodity shortages, underproduction, and stagnation of growth have emerged. Under these circumstances, Gorbachev, who was unclear-headed, wanted to push for a new institutional reform, but he hastily and incompletely naturalized and planned it, which eventually led to the collapse of the Soviet economy.

When the material foundation of a country falls, other bullshit things will follow. The Soviets, who had enjoyed a good life, began to be dissatisfied, and began to see that in the original distribution process, those party members and those in power could take more, so they began to shout that it was unfair, but they did not even think that what they had taken before could not be considered fair. The map head opened the door to the country, and various trends of thought in the West gradually began to influence the Soviets, and words such as democracy and human rights began to be put on people's lips, as if what they could not get was the most beautiful.

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In such an embarrassing situation, the mysterious palace that was originally calling for wind and rain in the Soviet Union also began to decline. Grigory? In Kirk's office, a white-coated assistant cautiously reported to Kirk: "Ninety percent of the research funding for the next quarter has been cut, and we don't really have any real funds for research and creation, and the money can only cover our personnel costs at most." Some researchers are already beginning to feel dissatisfied, and some comrades are running out of food at home. ”

Kirk's eyebrows furrowed, and there was no joy or anger on his face: "Dissatisfied, come on, tell me, who is dissatisfied." ”

The assistant was careful, he was almost sure of his name, and he couldn't even find a body the next morning, serving a guy like Kirk was like working with a demon, you could never guess what he was thinking, he was moody, sometimes he slaughtered you when he was happy, and he could slaughter you when he was unhappy, everyone was trembling, and he wanted to get out of this guy but never did.

Like many of the people in the Mystic Palace, the assistants most wanted someone to kill Kirk, they used to fantasize about Kirk's death, and now they also look forward to Kirk's death, but they used to be very stupid and naïve, thinking that death meant the end, but for Kirk, death was just a few months off. So the assistant wanted Kirk to burp and at most get the relief of not having to face Kirk for a few months, because after a few months, the guy would be curled up in his chair drinking coffee and watching to see who didn't like him or doing experiments.

Seeing that his assistant did not have the courage to speak, Kirk was trembling there, and a sneer flowed from the corner of his mouth, and he sat there and said to himself: "Sure enough, is the Soviets about to enter her grave?" It's almost time.,It's just a little faster than I calculated at the beginning.,This backer has fallen.,Is it going to be another one in the future? ”

The assistant heard Kirk say such a rebellious thing, but he did not feel angry at all, the mysterious palace was no longer limited to loyalty to the Soviet Union, they were actually loyal to Kirk. In other words, they can't listen to Kirk, who is the god and demon of the Mystery Palace, who controls anyone's life and death, and if they want to live, they can only obey Kirk's orders.

"The little ones in Europe will only end up getting more and more idiotic and unbearable over time, uh, Japan, a puppet country like a slave, and the Japanese are so ugly that it makes people feel uncomfortable. Are only the United States and China left? Kirk muttered.

However, when it came to China, a glimmer of elusive brilliance flashed in his eyes, "That strange force is developed and strengthened with China as the parent body, if you also devote yourself to China, I am afraid it will be difficult to easily gain trust, and the resources will not be tilted to the maximum." Moreover, it is really a frustrating thing to lose such a perfect enemy like this, so should you really go to the United States? ”

Kirk's face twitched, "But I hate mongrels with limited IQs and junk food!" In the eyes of this madman, the hybrid Americans are inferior, and he is very Nazi to dislike the Anglo-Saxon race, nor the Negros who only spill semen and fox stench, and he believes that the success of the United States is due to the good geographical environment and resources, and the inclusion of outstanding talents from all countries in the world, and the British as the main body of the country, as well as a large number of blacks, are all races that should be humanely destroyed.

"Although I am a little unhappy, in order to deal with my unknown good friend for a few more rounds, it seems that I can only go to that rude and superficial country." Kirk continued to mutter.

He waved his hand and said to his assistant: "Go pick a few innocuous techniques, meet with those CIA nerds we are targeting, and say that the Mystic Palace wants to reach a cooperation with the United States, well, any technique is not allowed to be sold for less than $1 million." ”

Kirk has no psychological burden at all for cashing out the techniques of the Mysterious Palace, and selling them to the enemy of the Soviet Union, the United States, in his opinion, it doesn't make much sense to cut off anything other than himself, and his life is actually very simple, that is, it completely depends on his own mood.

The assistant had no right or courage to put his beak, nodded again and again, and walked out of the office to do something.

Kirk stood up, picked up a cup of coffee on the safrole wooden desk, and sipped it gently, thinking to himself boredly, "If you go to America, at least you can drink better coffee." ”

Putting down the coffee cup, Kirk glanced out the window, "That Chinese friend who is even more mysterious than me, you really make me anxious, that idiot from Lennings went to China and didn't find out anything, but instead trapped himself there, which shows that your strength is indeed as I thought, and it should not be underestimated." Lennings is finished, but I still have a lot of such chess pieces in my hands, sooner or later I will recognize your true colors, haluha, when the time comes, it will be the moment of our king against the king, isn't it exciting?! ”

At this time in China, in an elegant café in Beijing, a guy with glasses under a wine bottle, who looked sven and wooden, saw a blonde and blue-eyed, infinitely gorgeous beauty in the elegant seat, and his heart was overjoyed.