"The vice president welcomed him and the president saw him off. The standard of the reception seems to have been raised a notch." After Ye Kai heard about this incident, he was a little surprised.
However, Ye Kai did not know much about Soviet President Gorbachev. Although some articles and biographies about him were later published, how much of what was written on paper could be believed? It's really hard to say.
Gorbachev only had about a quarter of an hour to meet with Ye Ziping. After all, Ye Ziping was just a deputy minister enjoying ministerial status. He was able to be interviewed by the President of the Soviet Union, probably because Gorbachev learned that he was Ye Xiangan's son, otherwise, others might not take care of him.
Ye Kai was naturally among the attachés who were received. He also specially brought Zhong Liyu, who was known as a representative of entrepreneurs and came to the Soviet Union to seek cooperation projects.
After observing Gorbachev closely, Ye Kai discovered that this man's speech was very contagious. His speech was not drafted, but he could easily influence the rhythm and direction of the conversation.
It's just a pity that for the Soviet Union, an old empire that was suffering from a serious illness, what was needed was more control over the country, not the rhetoric of politicians. Gorbachev did not do well in this regard.
Until many years later, some people said that if Gorbachev did not reform, the Soviet Union would still exist today, and he is still the leader of the Soviet Union. In this way, Gorbachev was the biggest loser of the Soviet reform. But this is just a theory The hypothesis above is not the case in reality.
The historical development of the Soviet Union proved that the Soviet model was unsuccessful. The people's desire for reform existed during the Khrushchev and Brezhnev periods. However, because the people did not have a normal way to express their opinions, their wishes could not become the Soviet model. The policies and crises of the Communist Party continued to accumulate. By the time Gorbachev came to power, tinkering with reforms was of no avail.
The Soviets, who have lived under gerontocracy for more than ten years and have held state funerals for three general secretaries in less than three years, are eager to have a leader who can speak without scripts, has normal thinking and can act easily. Al Gore Bachov came into being. People have high hopes for the new, young general secretary, hoping to change the country's status quo as soon as possible.
Gorbachev, a new generation of leaders who grew up after the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, also felt first-hand the problems existing in the Soviet system. They felt that the development of the Soviet Union was increasingly out of step with the trend of the world and had been influenced by the world's new scientific and technological revolution. After being thrown behind the tide, it is extremely irresponsible and extremely immoral to continue to avoid conflicts and problems like Brezhnev, Chernenko and others, and stay in power just to maintain their own power.
Faced with the comprehensive and profound crisis in the Soviet Union, Gorbachev could only carry out fundamental reforms.
Gorbachev started the road to political democratization and economic marketization in the Soviet Union, but he was just an unconscious executor of the historical mission, and he did not plan to embark on this road in advance.
Ye Ziping's expression was relatively calm, after all, he had seen many scenes.
Ye Kai also looked like an old god, looking here and there, very interested in everything around him.
Zhong Liyu was shocked in her heart. She actually saw Gorbachev, the president of the Soviet Union and the most powerful man in the world. It was like he was dreaming.
You must know that this is not something you see on a TV screen, but a real face-to-face communication, less than ten meters away. If you tell your classmates, no one will believe it.
Zhong Liyu looked back and saw several tall and burly young people standing aside, their eyes constantly scanning around. Needless to say, they were bodyguards, maybe the Soviet KGB or something.
Gorbachev's meeting with Ye Ziping was just out of curiosity. He had been tired recently. Things in the country were in a terrible state. Economic reforms had failed to achieve results. The national economy was on the verge of collapse. But he turned to
The reform of the political system was launched, but it pushed the already shaky political situation into disintegration.
Even though he once undisputedly ruled the largest empire in the world, even though he could bring about the destruction of the world a dozen times with a single order, even though he controlled the most formidable secret police force in the world, even though he could destroy everything with just a flick of his little finger.
He can wipe out the remains of any opponent... As long as he is willing, he can become the most arbitrary person in the world, without any power, wealth, or status. He can even tamper with history and portray himself as a perfect person.
The perfect saint.
However, it was such a person who, when he had it all, started to dig his own grave.
From this point of view, Gorbachev should be an idealist. He wanted to give people the power to choose their own government, but he had no choice but to lose the power; he wanted to give the people the freedom to tell the truth, but he
From a eulogized leader to a cursed sinner; he wanted to let the people know the true situation of the world, but he lost his privileges because he broke the rules that had been established for many years; he wanted to give the people the right to own their own property, and he finally
But he was reduced to making a living by selling books and performing arts... It's incredible that he is still so optimistic.
After learning that Zhong Liyu, a young girl, actually had a doctorate and controlled a large investment group, Gorbachev expressed his approval and believed that China and the Soviet Union should also strengthen trade cooperation relations, and said that the Soviet Union
I am also very interested in Chinese daily necessities and food.
Zhong Liyu followed Ye Kai's instructions and said that food was somewhat sensitive, but daily necessities trade could be considered. If the Soviet Union gave the green light, hundreds of millions of dollars worth of Chinese daily necessities could be organized to be imported into the Soviet Union within a month.
Gorbachev expressed his appreciation for this and ordered his chief of staff to follow up on the matter.
After the interview, Ye Ziping talked about Gorbachev with his son.
"Although this man has power, he does not have the ability to control it. You are right, the disintegration of the Soviet Union is inevitable, or I think Gorbachev has no intention of stopping this process. Could it be that,
He really has no attachment to power at all?" Ye Ziping said to his son with some suspicion.
"Everyone has different ideas." Ye Kai pondered for a moment before replying, "Although Gorbachev may have brought down the Soviet Union, he ended the Cold War. What are great men? Great men are those who changed world history and made
The giants who saved mankind from disaster; and those who changed the history of the world and plunged the people into misery were demons. If the Soviet Union disintegrated, to a small group of people, he would be a sinner, but to the majority of the Soviet people, he liberated them and provided
They sent away a ghost that had been haunting them for seventy years, and he was an angel-like figure."