"It's been a long time indeed, I heard that the Soviet Union attacked Turkey was your initiative, and the adventure was successful. The Soviet Union has now scared the whole world in World War I, isn't it a sense of accomplishment?" Bellinger said with a pun.

  The two have known each other for a long time, and it should be said that they have been friends for 20 years. At that time, Serov was only a small colonel in the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Because of mistakes in the country, he was sent to Italy to be an ambassador. And Bellinger is not the general secretary of the Italian Communist Party. He has just returned from his post as the chairman of the World Youth Federation and is working in the Milan region.

   It was only because of the Italian pyramid scheme that the Italian people lost everything, and later the Communist Party came to power. The United States did not have the embarrassment to send troops to intervene under the noses of Britain, France and Germany, and it was so thrilling to let the Italian Communist Party govern. If the United States could have foreseen today, it might have resorted to an armed intervention at that time, allowing Italians to experience the true meaning of democracy.

   "I haven't seen General Secretary Bellinger speak for a few years, and I've become more and more like a socialist." Serov's words also mean something. Italy has always held high the banner of European communism and debated some issues with the Soviet Union. What is the result now? Italy itself could not escape the economic crisis, so it came to ask the Soviet Union for help.

   "Yeah, we can't solve all problems with war." Bellinger didn't think there was anything wrong with this.

"Can all the same problems be solved with protests?" Serov asked rhetorically, "Socialists only know how to negotiate and compromise, and it is estimated that if there is another world war, the communist parties in Western Europe will be the same as their predecessors during World War I. A part of the war machine."

"You don't quite understand that the power of communism comes from socialist countries. Without the existence of the Soviet Union, you would easily be marginalized. This is not the same thing as suppression. You will be weak and not worth suppressing at all. President Liande understands more than you guys..." Serov smiled and said without bothering too much, "Get in the car, isn't your purpose just to hope that the Soviet Union will help Italy tide over the difficulties?"

The support rate of the Chilean Socialist Party is getting higher and higher. It is very simple. Every country has more poor people. Although the opposition parties are increasingly protesting, the Chilean Socialist Party's polls have reached 50% for the first time. Other opposition parties use The protests gathered their own supporters, and also the supporters of the Socialist Party. In this case, the Socialist Party has grown in strength faster than other parties. At present, the Soviet Red Navy will never leave Chilean ports.

Bellinger visited the Soviet Union on behalf of Italy. He did not expect the Soviet Union to bring Italy back to the high growth stage of ten years ago, but to find a way to balance Italy's deficit, because the rise in oil prices is itself weaker than that of Britain, France and Germany. Italy, coupled with its own limited market, can think of not many ways.

   So for Italy's own interests, it was the first to get rid of Batumi's obstruction and began to seek help from the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. This is what Western European countries have done historically, all dropping export restrictions to flatten their deficits. It's just that I don't know which country in history was the first to do so.

  Batumi is an unofficial international organization gathered in the field of international trade by the western developed industrial countries after the Second World War. Its purpose is to restrict member countries from exporting strategic materials and high technology to socialist countries. Included in the embargoed list are military weapons and equipment, cutting-edge technology products and rare materials and tens of thousands of products. This organization has an adjustment committee dedicated to the Soviet Union. Of course, China, as a big country, will never be forgotten, and there is also a China Committee dedicated to China.

  After the disintegration of the Soviet Union, Batumi's successor was the Wassenaar Agreement. The Wassenaar Agreement included almost all industrial countries except China, and it was an organization specially established for China. However, as long as the technology in their own country keeps improving, this kind of organization will break the blockade sooner or later.

   Now the Soviet Union is doing nothing. Italy is the first to come to Moscow. This has nothing to do with Bellinger being the general secretary of the Italian Communist Party. It is entirely because the Soviet Union has not been affected by the economic crisis, and Italy has no money now. It’s that simple.

Brezhnev was already waiting for Bellinger in the Kremlin, first of all to express comradely friendship, and then to get to the point, although the Soviet Union was a socialist country, it did not take the initiative to take advantage of it. Do less, but the first secretary is working hard for a second, the same thing will not happen to Brezhnev.

  The Soviet Union will definitely help Italy. This is based on mutual benefit. It is impossible to deal with Brezhnev in the same way as Khrushchev. Although Brezhnev had a stroke, his brain was not broken.

"In terms of technology, I believe that no country in the world will think that the Soviet Union is the backward side. Of course, the arrogant Americans may no longer be in this range." Brezhnev has a unique slow tone. He said, "Capitalist production will inevitably produce periodic economic crises. I believe you know this. Now that the crisis has occurred, come to us for help, Comrade Bellinger, isn't that so."

"It is nothing more than overcapacity, and things can't be sold. The result of not being able to sell is a backlog of products and factory closures. Therefore, the purpose of Western European countries is to hope that the Soviet Union will buy these products and lift the embargoed items at the same time." The director in charge of heavy industry Kirilenko, secretary of the Central Committee, said, "Why should we help the enemy who has been blocking us? Is it any good to do so?"

"We need technology to release the large-scale machinery that has been embargoed against the Soviet Union. Please don't get me wrong. It's not that we can't manufacture these machines, but the output is insufficient. We need to make some supplements to our country." Mazurov, the first vice chairman of the Council of Ministers, was indifferent. "In fact, we all understand that with the current trend, the Soviet Union will not need anything from the West soon, and the so-called embargo will be a big joke sooner or later."

   "Comrade Bellinger doesn't believe that the technology of the Soviet Union has fallen into Italy." Serov, who was sitting on the side, shrugged, showing no mercy because of their previous friendship.

"Although we are comrades, the Soviet Union is also willing to help Italy, but this must be based on mutual benefit." Brezhnev finally said, "This kind of relationship will be stronger, even stronger than talking about feelings. ."

For a country, the deficit is the second thing, which can be solved in many ways, and the unemployment rate is far more than the balance of payments. If Italy wants to tide over the difficulties, it must recover from the huge unemployment as soon as possible. Come out of the unemployment rate, otherwise, the unemployment rate will be followed by revolution. You must know that the entire Warsaw Pact is still eyeing, and the revolutionary Holy Land is much stronger now than it was fifty years ago.

   "I think professionals from our two countries can come up with a plan acceptable to both sides, take care of the interests of both of us, and work together to make both of us develop better." Bellinger said with a friendly attitude. He was only responsible for communicating his feelings with the Soviet leadership, and there would naturally be a special person in charge of the real negotiations. This is the case in any country.

  The Soviet Union has indeed given a very good reception. In any case, there must be some comrade-like feelings. Brezhnev, Sherepin and Kosygin all attended the reception to welcome Bellinger and the Italian delegation. As for the professionals who negotiate and sign contracts, they are also busy going head-to-head with their opponents.

"I thought you would object, but in fact, we can watch Western Europe die." Ustinov chatted with Serov with a glass of wine, "The West is in an economic crisis, once we pull them, they will continue to do so in the future. trouble us."

"This economic crisis will weaken the West, but it's still not possible to say that there is a chance for us to kill them all at once." Serov thought for a moment, "According to the US calculation, the overall strength of the Soviet Union has reached 1% of the US. Seventy-one, of course, this number will be further reduced in a few years. Eastern Europe is still a little weaker than Western Europe. I hope our Eastern European partners can seize this opportunity and truly help us in the future, rather than letting the Soviet Union do everything. bear."

   But if the confrontation continues and the next economic crisis occurs, then Western Europe and the United States may only be able to save one. There are only a few places where wool can be sheared, and the United States should take action against South America, where the Soviet Union is the least powerful. Followed by Japan, and finally Western Europe, but Serov is very doubtful that a South America is enough for the United States to get rid of this economic crisis.

   There are still ten years before the Plaza Accord. If Japan is not enough, the Soviet Union will carry Reagan's attack, and Western European countries will be the last choice.

  Three days later, the chairman of the Italian Council of Ministers, Bellinger, attended the commercial contract signed between Italy and the Soviet Union, promising to invest in the Soviet Union to help the Soviet Union develop its own resources, improve the quality of industrial products, and export large machinery and important parts. The first threw off Batumi's restrictions and began to rescue the country's unemployment rate, while trying to balance the balance of payments.

After Bellinger returned to Rome, he was strongly condemned by NATO countries, believing that Italy's disregard for the interests of the group had hurt the entire NATO. A delegation from the Soviet Union visited the Soviet Union to investigate human rights issues in the Soviet Union. As for why there were entrepreneurs, it was to let the people of Western European countries know the truth about the Soviet Union. Once the harsh living environment of the Soviet workers was discovered, the United Kingdom would uphold justice and condemn it. Other countries praised Britain's move as a shameless old-fashioned imperialism, and said that their own delegations should also be formed. (~^~)