"The former Soviet republics are really poor and crazy." Ye Kai said to the second old man.
Due to the asymmetry of information in this era and the secrecy of financial operations, many things about the Soviet Union are unclear domestically. Even an intelligence agency as large as the U.S. government still cannot accurately control the economic intelligence of the entire Soviet Union.
It can only be reasonably inferred from some appearances.
Therefore, when the Soviet Union announced its disintegration, many people felt confused and incredulous, wondering why such a huge red empire collapsed overnight.
Where did the wealth created by the Soviet Union in the past seventy years go?
In fact, in the 1980s, a series of political events in the Soviet Union had attracted the attention of international financial capital groups. The huge economic interests behind the political changes aroused the strong interest of a wealthy man named Vanta.
The great robbery of the ruble began to be put on the agenda, and New Republic Financial Group, headquartered in Wisconsin, USA, came into being.
In order to maintain the secrecy of its actions and avoid being noticed by the outside world, the registered capital of New Republic Financial Group is pitifully small, only tens of thousands of dollars. On the surface, it looks like a deceptive leather company. However, under the circumstances of International Financial Capital Group and
With the continuous injection of funds into secret overseas accounts in the United States, the amount of funds under Vantaa's control has expanded billions of times.
After entering 1990, the Soviet economy and financial foreign exchange market were already in turmoil, and a major crisis might break out at any time. On the eve of the collapse of the Soviet financial building, Vantaa, with the help of American financial experts and admirers within the Soviet Union,
The 140 billion rubles borrowed from the loan were sold on the black market at a price several times higher than the black market price. At that time, the price was as high as 28 rubles to 1 US dollar. This was a staggeringly profitable transaction, because later this 1
40 billion rubles are worthless after depreciation, which is equivalent to making a profit of 5 billion US dollars with nothing.
The profit of 5 billion US dollars in one transaction cannot but be said to be a legend in the history of international financial transactions. Vanta's legendary transaction is not over yet. He used the 5 billion US dollars he earned out of thin air, coupled with the high interest rates on the black market.
Leverage (the multiple of high leverage is about 100 to 500 times. In other words, Vantaa's 5 billion US dollars was magnified to 500 billion to 2.5 trillion US dollars), and began to short-sell unscrupulously in the London gold trading market and the New York futures market in the United States.
gold.
At the beginning, the gold bulls continued to persist. However, under the pressure of Vantaa's huge fund selling, the gold bulls completely collapsed. Vantaa's cumulative short position in gold reached 2,000 tons.
Entering 1991, there were already dark clouds over the Soviet Union, and the financial market was even more turbulent. Vantaa began to short gold aggressively, which made the Soviet economy, which relied on gold exports to survive in the short term, even worse.
The plummeting price of gold in the international market finally saw off the last pillar of the Soviet financial building and drove the last nail into the Soviet ruble's grave. The Soviet financial building soon collapsed.
Before and after the great changes in the Soviet Union, international financial robbers, with the help of American financial experts and the wrong public opinion guidance of the Soviet Union's superstitious Western experts' advice, frantically looted the unsuspecting Soviet Union's national assets and wealth.
This makes people feel a bit incredible. Russian President Yeltsin’s presidential decree needs to be revised by American economist Jeffrey Sachs, who is called the “White House’s secret weapon.” The legal provisions of the Russian National Duma and government administrative regulations need to be revised by American laws.
Expert Jonathan Hay personally formulated it, and Lawrence Summers of the U.S. Treasury Department, another one of Harvard's "double advisors", directly guided the Russian Finance Minister on how to formulate Russia's fiscal and financial policies.
Russia is already terminally ill, and the economy itself is already extremely weak. So under the careful care of a group of American economic experts, financial elites and policy advisers and other "miraculous doctors", can it have a chance to recover?
In the winter of 1991, the Russian economy was close to paralysis, and both the country and the people had become extremely poor. Even Gorbachev, who was awarded the "Peace Prize" by the West, was speechless when he participated in the West Asian Peace Forum in Madrid in November 1991.
I had to leave early because the Russian State Peace Delegation did not have enough money to pay for the hotel room during the conference.
The hyperinflation artificially initiated by international financial capital was like a roaring hurricane, sweeping away the remaining wealth of the people of the former Soviet Union that could withstand the severe economic cold. After the hyperinflation hurricane, the number of beggars continued to increase, and the people of the former Soviet Union were displaced and homeless.
With their families back home and their life savings instantly destroyed, people from all walks of life - from respected university professors, doctors who save lives and wounded, to military officers who defend the country - are selling goods that can be sold at home at low prices on the cold streets. It's such a scene.
Very sad.
How powerful, how glorious, and how admirable the Soviet Union was back then!
Where has the huge national wealth accumulated by the people of the former Soviet Union for 70 years gone? Is the Soviet economy "insolvent", or has it been plundered by various forces under the financial shady curtain? The answer is undoubtedly the latter, with the huge exchange rate
The fluctuations depleted the wealth accumulated in the former Soviet Union, and those who harvested this wealth were those "friendly" looters under the cover of a huge financial shady curtain.
"I started a little late and didn't catch up with this capital feast." When mentioning this matter, Ye Kaize's face was full of regrets, wishing that he didn't coincide with the feast.
There is nothing that can be done about this. After all, he obtained the memory of future generations at the end of last year and the beginning of this year, and he did not have enough funds to operate. How could he fight with the financial group represented by Vantaa in the financial market?
On the "Forbes" rich list, you can't find the names of financial capitalists who truly rule the world under the cover of financial shady. Western media has long been the eyes and ears of these people, and Vantaa is one of the legendary figures.
Vanta's true identity is an expert in financial speculation and trading. He was a senior official who worked in the U.S. Treasury Department, the CIA, and the FBI. It was he who brought down Soviet finance and also made his own wealth. Conservative estimates suggest that Vantaa
His personal wealth is over one trillion U.S. dollars, which is much better than the world's richest man worth tens of billions of dollars.
Thinking of these things, Ye Kai felt a little sad. This feast was missed, but there were still opportunities to make a fortune. Since the opportunities to make a fortune in the former Soviet Union were gone, it would be better to find some opportunities in the current CIS.
Yes, so he first set his sights on the remaining military resources of the Soviets.
"For us now, it is still very cost-effective to get some good things from the former Soviet Union countries. Although it is a small effort, it is better than nothing, and some things are very useful for improving the quality of our own military products.
"Ye Kai said, "So, I will pay to buy back the equipment. The intelligence and technical data will be shared by the military and us. How about this?"
"Then have you chosen a target?" The second old man was also very interested in this. Although he didn't know much about economic matters, when he heard Ye Kai talk about it, he felt that he seemed very powerful. In addition, Ye Kai
The operation before Ye Kai was always very fierce, like a great white shark, so the second old man still had great confidence in Ye Kai.
"There are two aspects: one is to get their scrapped nuclear submarines back, and the other is to take action on the aircraft carriers under construction and try to buy them back as a whole," Ye Kai said.
"Hey..." After hearing this, the second old man suddenly took a breath of air, "This is not an easy thing to handle!"
"I don't have the heart to do things that are easy to do, right? Anyway, I am now at the deputy department level and don't have time to pay attention to those little things." Ye Kai replied with a smile.
"Since you insist, then I will register your "Groundhog Project" with the Military Commission. If you encounter any trouble in the future, this will be enough to explain it. Well, it will be classified as the highest-level secret. Non-members of the Chinese political bureau will not be allowed to use it.
Right to check." After thinking about it for a while, the second old man made up his mind, "I will set up a small organization in the Military Commission to specifically cooperate with your actions."
"That's great!" Ye Kai was very satisfied with this.
The reason why Ye Kai chose to attack the titanium alloy nuclear submarine first was because of its high value.
Although titanium alloy nuclear submarines have unique advantages that are unmatched by other submarines, unfortunately they have had bad luck and have never become the main attack nuclear submarines of the former Soviet Navy. After the disintegration of the former Soviet Union, Russia stopped building such expensive nuclear submarines.
The reasons are, first, that the cost is too high. Titanium is an extremely precious metal on earth, and titanium alloys are very expensive. Even the United States only uses titanium alloys to build spacecraft.
As the largest country in titanium alloy production, the former Soviet Union not only stopped exporting titanium in order to build all-titanium alloy submarines, but also imported a large amount of titanium, which caused a substantial increase in titanium prices.
The processing technology of titanium alloy is also very difficult and difficult for ordinary shipyards to master. This involves the transformation of shipyard process facilities, adding equipment and training workers. These are the reasons why titanium alloy submarines cannot be mass-produced.
Because of this, the United States has not used titanium alloys to build submarines.
Especially after the USS Longtail nuclear submarine crashed in April 1963, killing 129 people at sea, the U.S. Navy has been wary of excessive pursuit of large diving depths and has adopted a more cautious attitude.
In fact, only a planned economic system like the former Soviet Union has the ability to build such an all-titanium alloy submarine at any cost.
During the Cold War, such high-priced and high-performance nuclear submarines were barely acceptable to the former Soviet Navy. However, when Russia's financial resources are tight, it is naturally unaffordable, and the Russian Navy will never build such nuclear submarines again.
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What Ye Kai values is the value of titanium alloy itself, while what the military needs is the technical resources of titanium alloy nuclear submarines themselves, and the two hit it off.
"Although it did not catch up with the capital feast of the former Soviet Union, this second feast of plundering military resources must not be missed." Ye Kaixin thought to himself. (To be continued)