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Chapter 568 The Ho Chi Minh Trail

"Just calculated, what do you want to concentrate so much money?" Valia held the man's neck from behind and said in a very nice voice, "It seems that our national welfare expenses are only more than 20 billion?"

"Of course it is used to make money and make Americans' money!" Selov found out the calculation paper and burned it. In fact, this kind of work always makes his wife calculate one by one, but he has no choice. Don't look at their villa, but there is really no place to put a computer. Soviet computers have just started using transistors at this time and are in the beginning of the third-generation computer, but even so, the size is still large and the performance is relatively average.

The fourth-generation computers in the Soviet Union began to use large-scale integrated circuits. The fourth-generation computers were the names of a series of supercomputer systems developed by the "Lebedev Institute of Precision Instruments and Computer Engineering" of the Soviet Union; its model is comparable to the contemporary American Sparc system. In this process, Selov angrily showed his presence, installed an expert, and designed the Russian-language keyboard of the Soviet Union. It was considered to have standardized the Soviet computers.

If it were possible, Selov, such a shameless person, would definitely install a computer in his own home. How could he let his wife use the calculation paper to settle the score? Didn’t he fiddle with Tetris when his daughter was fine?

"The recovery is good, is it better?" Shelov asked with his hands holding Mao Mei very attentively.

"I'm still a little tired, I'll just take a day off! Who asked you to use such a lot of effort?" Valia's face turned red, and she accused her of a tone called embarrassment, "My daughter has asked, why haven't you gone to work these two days?"

"This does not conform to the objective fact. You said you wanted to crack my pelvis." Selov said with a tone of blaming me. He thought it should not be blamed for this matter. It was clearly because of Mao Mei's strategic misjudgment that she ended up now.

"You said..." Valia grabbed a few times and threatened, "That bad thing, let's cut it off..."

"Okay, it's better to cut it off!" Shelov, who felt a chill under his crotch, calmed down, "You don't want to use it anyway, cut it off!"

"Shameless!" Valia stretched out her hand and gently pulled the man's face, "How many women will definitely fight for me!"

It was obvious that you couldn't bear to let it go, but Selov almost laughed out loud in his heart. He also rubbed his stubble on the woman's smooth face, which attracted a burst of coquettishness.

The Soviet Union had not had much foreign exchange reserves because the Soviet Union had basically no channels to do business with the West. The only more reserves were because Italy had changed color and reserved billions of Italian lira. However, after the health of Parimirotoriati deteriorated, the Soviet Union was trying to exchange the money. If the Italian Communist Party stepped down this time, I believe the Soviet Union would not hesitate to find a way to turn the lira into a US dollar.

Two hundred billion US dollars is a great wealth. Even in the 1970s when oil prices rose, it was a considerable wealth for the Soviet Union, not to mention now. Kosigin contacted the Soviet allies through various channels, and even borrowed money from China. He would have enough of this figure. Compared with the US dollar reserves of 40 to 50 billion in Britain, France and Germany, the Soviet Union really had no advantage in this battle. Based on this consideration, Selov drained the KGB's global funds and even began to renovate two destroyers that were almost age to sell to drug lords in South America, but sold them through North Korea.

Foreign exchange reserves actually have advantages and disadvantages. In the 1980s, the United States saw that the Soviet Union's foreign exchange reserves were mainly oil and then exchanged for food, so it took several steps to seize every opportunity to limit Western technology trade exports to the Soviet Union, and curb and attack those areas where the Soviet Union could exchange foreign exchange. Americans believe that the weakness of the Soviet Union was that it was very dependent on oil exports. If international oil prices fell, the Soviet Union's ability to exchange foreign exchange would decline.

When the Soviet Union's foreign exchange reserves declined, the sovereignty risk increased. Western European national banks would think twice when they issued loans to it. The Soviet Union's ability to use Western European loans declined, and its ability to transform technology declined. The advantage of this is that first, at least it can make the Soviet Union lag behind in the arms race with the United States. Second, if the Soviet Union devotes all its efforts to engage in an arms race with the United States, it will exhaust its strength. After all, the US dollar is the world currency, and the ruble is not. The United States can drag it down as long as it prints money at full speed. Third, the United States and Saudi Arabia work together to suppress oil prices.

Once oil prices fall, the foreign exchange exchanged for energy exports from the Soviet Union will shrink significantly. Fourth, the United States also imposed an agreement on the International Energy Agency, limiting the amount of natural gas purchased from the Soviet Union and stipulating that Western Europe should not exceed 30% of its energy demand. It cut off the Soviet Union's channels for obtaining hard currency from Western Europe.

Finally, the United States started the printing press with all its might and issued US dollars in large quantities. Reagan issued US dollars vigorously while raising interest rates. The result of vigorous printing of US dollars was the depreciation of the US dollar. The depreciation of the US dollar reduced the actual value of foreign exchange exchange exchanges from the Soviet Union. The depreciation of the US dollar depreciated by one quarter, and the actual income of Soviet export exchanges decreased by one quarter.

The United States was able to succeed because the Soviet Union could not be invincible in all aspects. The factor was that the Soviet Union's food was not enough to eat, and it had to be exchanged for trade with major grain-producing countries. All major grain-producing countries only recognized the US dollar and did not recognize the ruble, but now it is different. The ten-year friendly relations with Italy almost eliminated all the clumsy products of the Soviet Union, which was not afraid of any country than a copycat. In the past decade, it has greatly improved the quality of the Soviet Union's products, from taste to packaging.

The biggest role of Italy's discoloration is to open a gap in technological blockade. In the past decade, the Soviet Union learned everything Italy had in the 1960s through technology exchange and trade. However, Italy did not suffer any loss. The Soviet Union's technical reserves far exceeded any country except the United States, but the Soviet Union did not do a good job in utilization. On the contrary, many studies were used by Italy, and so far Italy's economic growth has been closely following the Federal Germany.

In terms of food, after Sudan joined the Economic and Communications, the Soviet Union fully supported Sudan to become a powerful agricultural and animal husbandry country. Its simple and direct devastating development made Sudan's grain production soar year by year in a short period of time. In addition, the Soviet Union's own production did not require importing grain from grain production land under the control of the United States.

In other words, the Soviet Union did not have the need to communicate with the United States at this time, and all the shortcomings had been filled, and there was no need to ask for food. As for military industry, there was no need to communicate. This was a strong project of the Soviet Union. The two sides had no economic contact, and the scale of the Soviet Union's foreign exchange reserves had never been large. Kosigin continued to visit Eastern European countries, and only then had enough 20 billion yuan.

"Now, we are waiting for the proud Frenchman to be the Dragon Slaying Warrior under the leadership of the rebellious Charles de Gaulle." The mathematical experts drawn from major agent cities have already taken their place. For these people, this is just an exercise to simulate a financial attack on the United States, and they don't know that they are really taking action.

At the same time, as the chairman of the KGB, Selov will also pay attention to Kosykin's actions. Kosykin specifically asked his assistant to evaluate the action. This is a single note. Kosykin didn't know that the KGB had also prepared funds to act together.

"If it fails, do I need to commit suicide? In this way, the KGB's more than ten years of hard work will be in vain, and the capital chain of all industries will be broken." Serov thought about it carefully and felt that his estimation of the consequences was too serious. It would not be like this. The KGB still has many shameful industries, and at worst it can recover slowly.

Just as Kosykin and Selov were secretly preparing to wait for the opportunity, a KGB officer with a secret mission arrived in Hanoi and met the Hanoi military leader, Wu Yuanjia.

"Central Secretary Comrade Andropov and our Chairman General Selov are very impressed by Hanoi's determination. Domestic factories are working overtime to create the weapons needed by Vietnamese comrades to help Vietnamese comrades get rid of the war imposed by imperialism as soon as possible. This is a handwritten letter from the two leaders. Of course, I can translate it for you." After reading the letter, KGB officer Yegrov introduced himself, "I used to work in Southeast Asia, last time in Indonesia. This time I was responsible for the transportation of weapons transported to Hanoi in the Soviet Union and help Vietnamese comrades prepare for war."

"Thank you Comrade Andropov and General Selov for your help. We will always be grateful to the Soviet Union." Wu Yuanjia thanked him sincerely, "The Soviet Union will provide us with the weapons and equipment we need very much."

"You're welcome!" Yegrove replied coldly but friendly. A stalemate appeared in the Vietnam battlefield. Although the US military had absolute military strength and technical advantages, it was still helpless in the face of the harassment of the regular North Vietnamese army and the southern Vietnamese guerrillas. The long-term delayed war has made the anti-war voices in the United States increasingly louder. President Linden Baynes Johnson faces the greatest political pressure since he was elected president; on the other hand, the Hanoi government also felt very stressed. The US military's superior forces and modern weapons caused its armed forces to suffer serious losses, and its morale was a little low. If this situation is not changed quickly, the outcome of the War Against the United States would be unimaginable. To reverse this unfavorable situation, it is necessary to choose the right time to launch a fierce attack on the US military. It is in this context that General Wu Yuanjia, the Minister of Defense of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, began to brew a plan in his mind.

Wu Yuanjia knew that the combat effectiveness of the US military was far above Vietnam, but he had no choice. However, at this time the Soviet Union sent liaison personnel and said that the Soviet Union was willing to see the US military defeated, so he had an idea, more prepared, and use better weapons to launch this decisive offensive.

Starting from October, the Soviet Siberian Railway was very busy, crossing China to deliver the weapons that had just left the factory to Hanoi, and Hanoi had its own way to deliver them to the hands of the scheduled attack troops. This is the Ho Chi Minh Trail. (To be continued.)
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