Chapter 2, The Last Bolsheviks
In the vast lands of the northern part of Eurasia, there was once such a great red empire. No pop-up window on the net, fast update //
The full name of this country is the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, or the Soviet Union for short.
At its peak, the Soviet Union was the largest country in the whole country, with more than 120 ethnic groups, 22 million square kilometers of territory, and a population of more than 200 million.
It was a Soviet power cemented by red faith, and its founding slogan was the liberation of all mankind.
It was born with great difficulty in the artillery fire of the October Revolution, completed industrialization in the blockade and hostility of the whole Shijie, launched a great counterattack that changed history in the invasion of Hitler, and became one of the two poles that dominated Shijie in the long Cold War with the "free Shijie" with the United States as the leader.
The surging liliang that has been condensed through great faith has allowed this kingdom to move from victory to victory. The establishment and development of this country is the largest social science experiment in the history of mankind -- an experiment to eliminate the exploiting class and establish an ideal society!
The short life of this country was filled with countless miracles.
-- The first artificial satellite, the first manned spaceship, the torrent of ironclad that swept across Europe, the Tu-95 bomber that obscured the sky, the Typhoon nuclear submarine that broke through the ice, the nuclear warhead that made the earth tremble, and the iron curtain that cut off Shijie......
It is a great nation destined to be looked up to by all the humanity of the planet - both those who envy it and those who hate it.
This great land gave birth to Pushkin, Tolstoy, Gorky, Tchaikovsky, Repin, Lenin, Stalin. It used to be a holy place that many people longed for. 1. "The Night of Moscow", I don't know how many people's tears were sung.
In that era of burning passion, countless warriors with different languages and skin colors, from different nationalities and countries. Holding the red flag in the bloody battles throughout Shijie, from the desert to the rainforest, from the Americas to Africa, just to realize the red ideal of liberating all mankind in his heart.
However, just as the Red Empire was gradually reaching its peak, the signs of collapse had already quietly emerged.
With an excessive tilt of financial resources towards the industrial and military spheres, the country is able to produce the most advanced nuclear submarines and fighter jets in the whole world, and is able to compete openly and secretly with the most powerful capitalist countries around the world. Being able to theoretically pay people a super-high level of wages is not actually able to provide their own people with enough consumer goods in the stores so that they don't have to waste time in endless queues to buy them.
As a result, young people in the USSR, on the one hand, received education and propaganda. Knowing that I live under the incomparably superior socialist system and in the most developed country in Shijie, I am full of expectations for life. The gloomy reality of the shortage of consumer goods and the lack of entertainment is in huge contrast to their expectations. This fills their hearts with bitterness, hesitation, and indifference. The enthusiasm and faith that formed the foundation of the nation began to waver.
What is even more terrifying is that many Soviet leaders, who were supposed to be servants of the people, enjoyed privileges, embezzled and accepted bribes, and lived a life of luxury and depravity. It was still insufficient, and he had to stuff the whole country into his pocket. Legitimately allow children to inherit power and wealth...... When it becomes an obstacle for them to turn public into private, these guys who carry the red flag and oppose the red flag. They began to use the capital and power in their hands to manipulate the media, confuse people's minds, destroy the economy, create conflicts, and actively tarnish the reputation of the party, until the huge country called the Soviet Union was completely torn apart!
The bewildered and numb people, just the silent majority, the sinners who really destroyed the country, sat in the first three rows of the rostrum. β¦,
Thus, the privatization movement began, the voice of "freedom" appeared, the ideals of the past were denied, the red flag fell, and the USSR collapsed.
In the midst of the stunned eyes of the world, this great country, the superpower with a complete heavy industry system and the first to send mankind into space, did not violently destroy in a nuclear war that ended human civilization, but silently destroyed in the degeneration and degeneration of its own faith.
Next, everything that represented the beautiful ideals of fairness and justice was completely buried in the feast of the partition of the Soviet Union.
-- If we say that the various privileges of the Soviet era in the past were only a few rats in the grain bars that stole things to eat; Then after the collapse of the Soviet Union, even the ownership of the grain has become the ownership of these rats.
As a result, the former superpower became the private property of a few oligarchs, the former member states were at war with each other, and "deindustrialization" soon left the country to live on the sale of resources, leaving the people with nothing but decay, poverty, unrest and death.
However, the Russian Communist Party, which had been pieced together from the wreckage of the CPSU, no longer had the courage to raise the blood-stained military flag again, so it had to embark on the line of parliamentary struggle, and since then it has been wasting its years in endless quarrels. As for the other member states, I am afraid that the actual situation is probably not as good as that of the Russian Communist Party.
However, there are also some brave men who insist on keeping the military flag of the past, and they are still scattered on the former map of the Red Empire, trying to maintain their respective bases in the harsh social environment, and struggling to preserve the flame of faith - the underground printing house in Tbilisi, the abandoned towns in the snow-capped Far East, and the world-famous no-man's land of nuclear radiation in the north of Ukraine, Chernobyl......
They are the remnants of the Cold War of the Red Empire of yesteryear.
They proudly call themselves Zuihou Bolsheviks!
Although, as time went on, they, the Zuihou Bolsheviks, had become more and more depressed and lost......
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In the wilderness not far from the cement coffin of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, stands a small Soviet-style three-story western-style building with a thick shape.
The small western-style building is surrounded by tall trees, as well as fences and lamp poles made of cast iron, giving it a rugged temperament that is characteristic of Russia.
However, these clumsy iron castings have long since corroded. The wooden corridors and floors were weathered and cracked, and only the wild vegetation clinged to the gray concrete buildings. The vigorous vitality of the surrounding greenery and the dead silence of time stand still form a strange contrast.
ββ¦β¦ Oooooooo Divine Red Card Vodka!! How long has it been since I've tasted something like this?! β
Inside this dilapidated bungalow, next to the fireplace burning with wood in the living room on the ground floor. An old werewolf dressed in an old Soviet-era military uniform, but with an extra pair of wolf ears and a wolf tail, rubbed his sleek glass bottle with his beard with great excitement, "...... The last time I drank red card vodka, it seemed to be Easter! I'm almost fed up with the bad stuff made from potatoes! Still with a high intensity of radiation! β
ββ¦β¦ Colonel Ihonovsky, please don't get too excited, if you break the bottle, there will be nothing. β
A blonde werewolf girl sitting on a couch munching an apple. Seeing the old werewolf's embarrassing appearance, he couldn't help but roll his eyes helplessly.
ββ¦β¦ Ah, you're right, Sonia. Such treasures should indeed be cherished......"
Colonel Ihonovsky finally reluctantly put down the vodka bottle, then uncorked the cork, turned around and took out an enamel cup with the party emblem painted with a sickle and hammer, carefully poured a small half of the vodka, and then licked it with his tongue with great cherishment. ββ¦β¦ Well, it's really strong, it should be a genuine product...... By the way, how is the city of Kyiv now? Has there been any change from last month? ββ¦,
ββ¦β¦ What else? Unemployment, marches, robberies, prostitutes, inflationγ...... Plus the antics of the parliamentarians! β
The werewolf girl named Sonia yawned. Throw the apple core out the window and grab another apple at the same time. ββ¦β¦ The streets are filled with prostitutes, beggars and thieves, and prices have nearly doubled since last month. Everyone is anesthetizing themselves with alcohol and drugs, degraded like Saigon during the Vietnam War! There are almost no American GIs to consume! What the hell is going on with this country?! weishenme will become like this?! β
ββ¦β¦ Oh, yes! You're right, the country has completely degenerated. In the past, people had rubles in their pockets, but there were no goods on the shelves; And now there are goods on the shelves, but people have no money in their pockets...... For many years, everyone only found that they were getting poorer and poorer. β
Colonel Ihonovsky raised his glass and sighed with infinite sorrow, "...... Angry people took to the streets to protest, but to no avail β people had the freedom to march, and the authorities had the power to turn a blind eye. This has been the case since the beginning of the first Orange Revolution, and no matter who comes to power, they only know how to please the West, and people's lives will only get worse and worse...... This is free Ukraine! Ha! Hiccup"
He shook his head, took a big sip of the vodka in the cup, spewed out a strong smell of alcohol, and then opened the canned pork that Sonia had just bought from the city of Kiev with a dagger, put it on the small round table in front of him, and directly took the dagger and stuck the meat piece in it, and ate it in a big gulp.
ββ¦β¦ Oh, yes! All this is ridiculous! When I came back from three days in Yishijie, I found that almost thirty years had passed here, the Party and the Motherland no longer existed, the whole organization had become a 'Zuihou Bolshevik', and the captain you had become an old man! β
Sonia also put down the half-eaten apple in frustration, and whispered in response, the erect wolf ears drooping listlessly, "...... I became a foreigner in Ukraine and became a term for sin...... What's wrong with this country? This land weishenme will become like this?! I almost don't recognize this fallen land, the glorious motherland where I grew up! β
The werewolf girl suddenly snatched the colonel's red-card vodka, and without using a cup, she directly poured it into her throat from the mouth of the bottle, and at the same time spewed the wine to tell the knot in her heart, "...... The comrades I used to work with are gone. What I've been fighting for all my life ......"
At this point, Sonia couldn't talk anymore, didn't know how to express her complex emotions, and had to choke silently and weep.
Colonel Ihonovsky sighed and stood up, took the red card vodka bottle from the girl's hand, patted her on the shoulder, and persuaded her as softly as possible, "...... If you want to cry, cry as much as you can! I'm sorry, but when you were ordered to travel through the wormhole and explore and adventure in another shijie, none of us useless people who stayed in the homeland were able to protect this great alliance......"
The old werewolf grabbed the "Holy Red Card Vodka" and poured a large sip into his mouth, letting the pungent liquor slowly slide down his gray beard, "...... But, in a sense, Sonya, you may still be lucky, at least you haven't experienced the most desperate and dark tragic times, especially when we watch the Kremlin's fluttering red flag fall and feel like our hearts are about to be torn apart......"