Big Time 1958
v1 Chapter 752: Group of Seven
The start of the war did not shock the whole world. Even at the beginning, even Thailand itself did not find out for the first time. In this era, the Southeast Asian countries with guerrillas everywhere are already in the midst of blood and rain. Major European and American countries are saving themselves from the economic crisis, and they did not immediately pay attention to the movements in Southeast Asia. Guerrilla warfare is too easy to detect, but the countries that are best at fighting guerrilla warfare in the 1970s.
The rapid expansion of the Soviet Union is most obvious in the Near East and the Middle East. The Near East personally attacked Turkey, and the Middle East supported Egypt, Syria and Iraq, the traditional military powers in the Middle East. The momentum created far exceeds that of other places, and even a small country like Portugal has gained far more attention than Thailand, not to mention Allende, Chile, who is fascinated with Cuba. There are too many areas in the United States that need attention. Looking up, Thailand in Southeast Asia is really not the most urgent problem. Anyway, the Communist Party has always existed in Thailand, which is nothing new.
First Europe and then Asia is not just talk, it is the unanimous thinking of the major powers for two hundred years, and the strategic deployment for many years has revolved around this thinking. So for the United States, on the one hand, how to delay the Soviet Union's attack when its kidneys are deficient, and on the other hand, it is to recuperate its internal injuries as soon as possible.
As for other countries, in this competition all over the world, the United States has its own guarantee that which countries are worth saving, and which countries are just stumbling blocks used to delay the Soviet Union's attack. Among them, Turkey is very important, but the Soviet Union quickly killed Turkey. It is said that the whole process is not scientific at all, there is no mobilization of troops, and the local army does it, and there is no supply and transportation, as if all the preparations for war were completed overnight.
Now the U.S. Pentagon has determined that it takes ten years of preparation to prepare everything without being discovered, and then this piece of news was quickly handed over to Iran. As a neighboring country, Iran watched with its own eyes how Turkey was doing. Dismembered, the entire country's combat readiness has never been more serious.
Compared with the jungle guerrilla warfare in Southeast Asia, many things in the world are extremely important. For Western Europe, how to save themselves is the most important thing at present. If the situation continues to deteriorate and unemployment increases, it will be about to revolution. Relaxing the restrictions on exports to the Soviet Union is just a hemostatic agent for them. To get out of the economic crisis or to rely on their own adjustment.
"I hope other countries will understand that if we do not unite closely, whether we are facing the United States or the Soviet Union, we will not be able to escape the end of being controlled. Europe can only unite to save itself. Either it will be the puppet of the Americans forever, or after the revolution. As puppets of the Soviets, if we continue to fight alone, Europe will sink forever."
The Soviet Union suddenly attacked Turkey, cutting off the land connection between Western Europe and Asia. It also made Western European countries begin to seriously consider how to face the Soviet Union. In particular, the Soviet Union has abundant local resources and is still giving blood to Eastern European countries. If this trend continues for decades, the strength of both sides will definitely reverse in Europe, not a military reversal. The military advantage itself is on the Soviet side. With the dual advantages of economy and military, in this case, Western Europe has no capital to maintain balance.
After the Turkish War, French newspapers began to voice the voice of European unity, not the current cooperation, but a closer alliance to adjust their industries to get out of the economic crisis. Blacksmithing has to be **** its own. All countries understand this truth. If Western European countries are still like this, whether it is facing the United States or the Soviet Union, there is no chance of winning.
After the war the United States injected large amounts of capital in the form of loans into Western Europe and Japan to kickstart their economies. The cornerstone of this international monetary system is that the U.S. dollar implements a fixed price of thirty-five dollars to an ounce of gold. In the long run, however, the United States does not have the power to sustainably provide capital to the entire world economy. America's external payments deficit rose, and the situation worsened with the Vietnam War, and America's gold reserves continued to dwindle. Unable to maintain a fixed ratio of the dollar to gold, President Nixon declared the dollar off the gold standard. With the collapse of Bretton Woods, inflation spiraled, and now in the worst world recession since the 1930s, class struggle flourished in country after country. This is the dilemma that Europe is facing now. Who knows if the Soviet Union will see that the situation is good and start a world revolution with the ideas of the Fourth International?
Lubyanka of the Soviet Union, the headquarters of the KGB, Moscow in April and May has a pleasant climate. For the entire Soviet Union, after General Secretary Brezhnev paid attention to the housing issue, the Soviet Union ushered in another time after the Khrushchev Building. Construction boom. All the cities can see the tower cranes in intensive construction, and construction workers with hard hats are sweating at work.
As the capital of the Soviet Union, Moscow’s population pressure has always been very heavy. Even if the Soviet Union has a strict household registration system and there are no conditions for people to move freely, it still cannot stop the further expansion of Moscow’s population. The capital is the face of a country, and no one would expect the capital to be the same, even if the rest of the world lags behind.
Grishin, the first secretary of the Moscow Municipal Party Committee, first responded to the call of General Secretary Brezhnev to solve the housing problem, and began to plan the urban construction of Moscow. The tower cranes are at work, the whole city.
Some buildings whose main buildings have been completed already have the shadow of later Chinese communities. It should be said that in terms of hardware, it should be stronger than the average Chinese community, at least it will not make a fuss about the public pool area. It is estimated that if Serov does not educate the municipal cadres in various places, no one should think of making a fuss about the public pool area, at least not in a short time.
These projects are actually similar to what he did in the KGB, but this time Brezhnev personally issued orders, and the scale was much larger than what he had tossed around in his own department. Some functional cities in important mining areas, as well as small forestry towns, can cover the entire population with almost a one-time project.
In this five-year plan, the housing construction will cover 40 million people, which is far from the efficiency of later China. In addition to the bungalow residents who have been in disrepair, functional urban residents, military family members and cadres who moved into the new house did not actually cover the residents living in the Khrushchev Building. In this sense, living in Khrushchev first. The residents of the husband's house can no longer benefit from Brezhnev's policy. There is no way to do this. Fate is so wonderful.
The Soviet Union has not yet been able to make it available to all the Soviets at one time. The communist life depicted by Lenin with electric lights and telephones upstairs and downstairs is too huge. Once implemented, it will be a budget black hole with military and welfare expenditures.
However, according to the survey, the KGB has not found any dissatisfied with this policy within the coverage area, at least not in Moscow. The state bears most of the cost and gives you a good house. What else are you dissatisfied with.
"Chairman, three pieces of information, two from Europe and one from Southeast Asia, are all valuable information." Shervanov, Director of the General Affairs Office, opened the door, walked over and put the information directly on the table.
"Yeah!" Serov didn't stop writing and finished the last few sentences. I started to read the information directly. After Vietnam joined the guerrilla warfare in Southeast Asia, it developed in a direction like a mobile warfare. It seems that the head-to-head positional warfare is coming soon. The big cities in Thailand are still under the control of the government forces for the time being, but the rural areas are obviously already under the control of the Communist Party of Thailand, much like South Vietnam a few years ago. The similarities are that the urban population in Thailand is also at a disadvantage. In addition to Europe and the United States, every few countries is the majority of the urban population.
"The French are trying to hold a conference in Paris including the United States, Japan, the United Kingdom, Germany and themselves to jointly study ways to resist the economic crisis?" Serov's mind immediately flashed a word, the G7. In order to jointly solve the world economic and currency crisis, coordinate economic policies and revive the Western economy, the Group of Seven came into being.
This group is well-known in later generations. The Plaza Accord in Japan was actually completed under the collective pressure of the G7. Of course, the Plaza Accord benefits the United States the most, and it cannot be ruled out that the United States washed itself in the collective name. Doesn't America always do this?
But what I didn’t expect was that the country that the G7 first advocated was actually the French. The proud French might not have wanted to leave the United States alone at first, but after leaving the United States and Western Europe, they still couldn’t solve the problem by themselves, so they pulled the Americans. Come in. But comparing the economic scales of France and the United States, once the United States comes in, it will definitely be anti-customer, regardless of the size gap between the two sides.
"It's impossible to stop it, I'm not really Yuri..." Serov shook his head slightly, does the G7 work? Of course there is. At least this economic crisis has been quickly overcome by the G7, and the United States has also re-divided the economic interests of various countries. Since the establishment of the G7, other capitalist countries are not completely puppets of the United States. , except for Japan and the Federal Republic of Germany.
Everything has a process. The economic crisis will not worsen in 1975, but to completely erase the damage that affects the restoration of this time, it will not take a few years to think about it. In recent years, the Soviet Union still has room to operate. (~^~)