"It's the Romanians who are snapping up the factories and equipment we selected."
After a few days of understanding, Victor finally knew who was behind this. However, this result made Victor feel a little difficult. Because this is in the United States, those greedy capitalists only have money in their eyes, and whoever pays more will naturally
To whom to sell.
Although the Soviet Union purchased more in the United States than in Romania, many purchases were made from cheap factories, and there must be only a few bankrupt factories with technical capabilities. Therefore, after being intercepted by Romania by mistake, Viktorov discovered that in the aviation industry,
In various industries such as steel, petrochemicals, shipbuilding, and vehicle manufacturing, there are only two or three kittens left in such factories.
This made Viktor a little confused. After all, such a cheap factory would be gone once it was bought. And those factories that did not go bankrupt would have to pay a high price. And the price of purchasing new equipment was not cheap.
Historically, the Soviet Union had a large share of US purchases from bankrupt factories. They dismantled these equipment and brought them back to the country, which effectively guaranteed the industrialization of the Soviet Union. But now, as Romania is also spending money liberally in the United States, more of them will be used.
Good factories were rushed to Romania, leaving the Soviet Union with only equipment that even Romania looked down upon. Of course, in industries without Romanian competition, Soviet procurement continued. However, at present, the Soviet Union is not interested in the aviation industry, steel, and oil.
The demand in industries such as chemical industry, shipbuilding, and vehicle manufacturing is also high, and the lack of procurement will inevitably affect the industrialization of the Soviet Union.
Therefore, Viktor had no good solution for this but to report the problem to the country. In fact, this behavior is not only seen in the United States. In the United Kingdom and Germany, there are also Romanians snatching equipment from the Soviet Union. But compared with the United States,
The scale of the epidemic is much smaller, so the United States is currently the hardest hit area.
So the news that Romania was snapping up Soviet equipment soon spread back to Moscow.
"You mean Romania is in the world, rushing to buy equipment with us?"
Upon hearing the news, Stalin raised his brows, waved his corncob pipe and said, "Can I understand that without our knowledge, Romania unexpectedly snatched old factories and equipment from us?"
Stalin's words made Kuibyshev feel that his back was wet. However, he still replied. "It can be understood in this way, Comrade General Secretary. In the case of Romania's robbery with us, the relationship between Romania and us is about to be completed."
The First Five-Year Plan has a smaller impact, but the upcoming Second Five-Year Plan will have a greater impact. Among them, the aviation, steel, petrochemical, shipbuilding, and vehicle manufacturing industries will be enough to have an impact on the goals we have set."
After hearing Kuibyshev's words, Stalin asked quietly, "How big is the impact?"
"If we still need to achieve the set goals, we will need to pay an additional US$400-500 million. This will require our country to export more food and raw materials, but currently..."
Kuibyshev's words were lost in silence as Stalin waved his hand.
I saw the leader who controlled the Soviet Union slowly said. "The additional expenditure of 400-500 million US dollars is nothing to the great Soviet Union. The Communists will not shrink in the face of difficulties. The Second Five-Year Plan
It must be completed with quality and quantity. This is an inevitable choice for building a great Soviet Union. We must let the Romanians know that their small actions are of no use to the Soviet Union."
With Stalin's final words, the tasks of local governments at all levels under pressure have been greatly increased. Especially in Ukraine, which is rich in products, it has received the heaviest share of Stalin's gifts.
While the Soviet people were complaining about more export tasks, in Romania, Edel was also checking the results of the acquisition.
At present, Romania's procurement is going quite smoothly. The sudden attack caught the Soviet Union by surprise. Many factory equipment were purchased back to Romania at half price.
Eder is discussing with Prime Minister Karaturi how to handle these purchased equipment.
"Your government needs to pay more attention to the equipment shipped back to the country. This will greatly promote the development of Romania, and your government cannot relax."
Faced with Edel's instructions, Prime Minister Karaturi naturally did not dare to neglect, and he replied. "Your Majesty, please rest assured. The government has made comprehensive arrangements for these equipments. Among them, major state-owned enterprises will provide the equipment they need."
Pick them out and use them to expand production. We will dispose of the rest at a low price to businessmen in this country."
"But Your Majesty, after the expansion of domestic production capacity, we need enough markets. At this point, the market we currently have is close to saturation, and if we want to absorb its production capacity, we can only expand domestic demand and open up new markets. Your Majesty does not know about this
, what are your considerations?”
As for the future of Romanian goods, this is what Prime Minister Karaturi is most anxious about. At present, Romania's external markets are only the Balkans and Poland. As for Italy, Turkey, Western Europe and other places, the current domestic market share of Romanian goods is not high. Because of the high
The huge amount of tariffs has raised the price of Romanian goods, and Romanian goods have always been sold at low prices.
This is not because they don’t want to sell at a high price, but because there is a gap in quality compared to products from Britain, France and Germany. Take the industrial cutter heads currently sold in Romania as an example. The highest-quality German products can be used for a month under the same conditions, while Romania’s
It can only be used for half a month. This also means that the current selling price of Romanian industrial cutter heads can only reach 40% of similar products in Germany. Because the price is high, others might as well buy German products.
The result of low-price sales is that the profits earned by Romanian companies are far less than those in other countries. This also results in the wages of Romanian workers being much lower than those in countries such as Britain and France, although the wages of Romanian workers are already considered good in the Balkans.
This is where Karaturi's worries about continuing to expand production capacity come from. At present, Romania's traditional commodity sales countries are already saturated. What should we do if we can't sell the products after the expansion of production capacity?
"Prime Minister, you don't have to worry."
Edel is naturally aware of the Prime Minister's worries. However, he is not too worried about it because it is time to reap the results.
That's right, Edel has already chosen a target to cope with the effects of production capacity expansion. That friend in the Far East can help him. Cheap and high-quality Romanian products are better than those from Japan next door. And who wouldn't dump them at low prices?
Well, this is a unique skill of rabbits in later generations.
