Chapter 1334 – The Anglo-Soviet Trade Agreement

In the end to take the United Kingdom to where, Alan Wilson has been thinking about this problem, he also understands the importance of education, but for his own family considerations, as if happy education is not unacceptable, who hope that their families can face less competition.

This is like business discourse. Every public speech is an innovation, but the fundamental objective pursued by every company is monopolization, and saying one thing and doing another exists in every field.

The Prime Minister’s original intentions for the introduction of public education were certainly good, just as Happy Education didn’t have to train the majority of the population to be losers except for the fact that it cost a small fortune to do a big job at the beginning.

For the students in public schools, they are providing an education that “makes the best use of what is available”.

A child who is passionate about one subject is allowed to spend time in other subjects that amount to little more than a general understanding. For example, for the average person, an approximate knowledge of junior high school mathematics is sufficient, while for someone who loves math, perhaps a little bit of literature is sufficient, without having to memorize it at all.

That Soviet way of education spent a lot of time learning subjects that one didn’t like and didn’t mean anything to one. So it was unhappy, and the vast majority of what was learned was never used in a lifetime.

Just because it started out with good intentions doesn’t mean it evolved well, and the public education system in the free world eventually evolved towards educating students into crap.

“It’s better to do right by the country.” After careful weighing, Alan Wilson decided to put out his full strength to help the prime minister, but if in the future Margaret Thatcher came to power and dismantled the public education system again, it would be none of his business, the election is this good, even if there is a threat, it is temporary.

This time to go to Moscow to sign the agreement, and more his name, when walking down the Moscow airport, Alan Wilson lamented, he remembered the twenty-first century in the United Kingdom, as if a certain period of time deeply British public education system has been abolished, and went to a large country to study want to rebuild the public education system, the bbc has also filmed a documentary.

“Examine the education system?” Foltseva full of dismay muttered, “really strange, the British education system is not very strong? Oxford and Cambridge are all world-famous universities.”

Foltseva had been the Soviet Union’s Minister of Education, and now, although she was managing the Ministry of Culture, she was also considered to have received the acquiescence of the other members of the Central Presidium, and had her own influence in the education sector.

Because of the economic and trade relations between Britain and the Soviet Union under the descent of the Iron Curtain, because of the special partnership between France and the Soviet Union, once again on the agenda of the Labor government, the Soviet Union for Britain’s goodwill, the Soviet Union is also quite serious.

Now Britain’s absolute power was certainly inferior to that of 1945, and its independent colonies already numbered seven or eight million square kilometers, but still it was not an object to be ignored.

Under the enthusiastic care of the KGB, the British trade and economic team split into three and went to Leningrad, Belarus and Ukraine, three of the most important places for Soviet industry – after all, in Moscow’s view, it was the Slavic brothers who were a little more reliable.

Many of the goods permitted to enter the British market on this visit originated in the Donbass region, a place that is well known, the importance of which really can not be overemphasized.

Ukraine, as a member of the Soviet Union with a special status, lives on the east side of the Dnieper River, unlike many people who believe that Western Ukraine relies on agriculture and Eastern Ukraine relies on industry.

Most of Ukraine’s black soil belt is actually in East Ukraine as well, and West Ukraine has neither industrial areas agriculture nor East Ukraine.

The impression that Western Ukraine relies on agriculture is left because Western Ukraine can’t hold anything but agriculture. Without East Ukraine, the remaining land can at best ensure that the locals become Romanian, and that’s if everything goes well.

The British inspectors had just entered Eastern Ukraine and were greeted by endless stretches of black land, the color of which hadn’t changed a bit after hours of train travel.

The world’s largest black land, from the area is in the Soviet Union, to be divided from the internal, most of the actually within the Russian territory, Ukraine’s black land area is not large, but better than Russia’s black land than the climate, the black land in East Ukraine is enough to make the Ukraine become a large grain silo.

I have to say that the USSR kind of put everything good in Ukraine, it’s a top notch deal, but? Technologically it’s a bit more average, especially the UK’s dominant industry of shipbuilding, even if Ukraine is also the Soviet Union’s shipbuilding base, it can’t issue a challenge to the UK in this field.

“I say the KGB can’t respect us? It’s too obvious to follow everywhere we go.” During a tour of the Soviet Ministry of Education, Alan Wilson found an opportunity to spit at the Culture Czar. Even dykes don’t go too far with imperialism, practically treating the British Crackdown on Economic and Trade Missions like thieves.

Several study tours have sent back to find unidentified people to follow, Allen Wilson are deeply impressed that the Iron Curtain is not true to its name, this time the UK came to nearly a hundred people, it is true that the movement is a little bit bigger. But also can not use such treatment, right, a hundred people can still put the Soviet Union how, they obviously came over to increase friendly relations.

“I don’t know what kind of evaluation the secretary-general has on the education of the USSR.” Placed in Moscow University, Foltseva a businesslike tone, the KGB is not under her control, she was able to come to visit the visitors to visit the University of Moscow, has been considered very sincere.

“Very good.” Alan Wilson how to say is also acting, pretend to comment, “We are shocked at the development of the Soviet Union over the years, this is a world of reconciliation, both sides should look to the future, each country has its own strengths and weaknesses, which is also the basis of international cooperation.”

“Oh, a very pertinent assessment. I wonder what the strengths are exactly.” Foltseva felt that the compliment wasn’t very sincere and wanted Allen Wilson to be more specific.

“It’s all pros except for the fact that it’s free.” Allen Wilson coldly smiled, Britain can learn from anything, after all, he has a flexible moral bottom line, but as long as it is related to free, that one can not learn, would rather have the grass of capitalism, but not the seedlings of socialism.

It was a matter of principle, at least during the day he had to defend traditional British values and not be knocked down by Soviet sugar-coating, who made him a staunch patriot.

A black day past, in front of and accompanying subordinates, Alan Wilson on the Soviet Union in all aspects of praise, the Labor Party in power, well, now the international situation is a major détente, although there is also a war has been fought for quite a long time, but that’s a million miles away, and what is the relationship with our big Europe?

Don’t think he just took the culture czar sitting on a rocket, there are also results, about the Soviet Union’s education system, he now has a general understanding, but as yesterday, the Soviet Union university education fees are free of charge, he still did not recognize, and the subordinates accompanied by sternly emphasized that, “not allowed to spread this matter to the country, the Soviet Union is the world’s most resource-rich country , this is a very special case, the situation in Britain is different from that of the Soviet Union.”

He hoped that this expedition would strictly adhere to the bottom line of the Han and the thieves, as for the work of complicity, there is a supreme authority to personally pay attention to it, do not bother these people who are not the chief of staff belt to worry about it.

Subordinates only need to write a good report on the line, for example, vocational and technical education implementation of vocational and technical education of the school there are three kinds: vocational and technical schools, enrollment of incomplete secondary school graduates, 1 to 2 years of training, training to engage in the simplest types of workers. Secondary vocational and technical schools, which take graduates of incomplete secondary schools and train them for three years, train highly skilled workers and provide them with a full secondary education. In recent years the first type of school has been gradually replaced by the second.

Technical schools, for graduates of complete secondary schools for two years, train workers with complex skills and junior technicians. Doing well in this category would be worth the trip.

Why concentrate on vocational schools and not the Soviet university system? That’s because the vocational school system could be used to combine with the original British system, taking advantage of its strengths to train workers to contribute to society.

Modeled on the Anglo-Soviet Trade Agreement of the 1920s, Foreign Secretary Patrick Gordon Walker and Secretary of State for Economic Affairs George Brown signed the Anglo-Soviet Trade Agreement with Soviet Union Council of Ministers Chairman Kosygin and Foreign Minister Gromeko to increase economic and trade relations between the two countries, and in the unpublishable text, the UK was interested in using Finland as a transshipment point to transit trade with the Soviet Union.

Unlike France, which had been vigorously pursuing the idea of a Greater Europe, Britain was cautious in strengthening its economic and trade relations with the Soviet Union. The trade agreement covers machinery, equipment, means of transportation, and fuel, ores and metals, etc. Machinery, equipment, and means of transportation account for about one-third of imports and exports, and if fuel, ores and metals are added to the mix, then the proportion of imports and exports will account for more than half of the total.

The above areas, together with Soviet commodities judged at the Soviet Commodities Exhibition in London to be imports that could greatly reduce the price of similar goods in the British market, form the nucleus of this time’s economic and trade agreement.

“I wonder how much the country will gain from the signing of this agreement.” Foreign Secretary Patrick, having completed the signing of the agreement, was finally relieved and rather relieved.

“At least that judgment can be made that concentrating Soviet exports in so many areas will help to slow down Soviet industrial development. The Soviet factories we have visited have reached the judgment that it is feasible to transfer a certain amount of civilian technology.” Alan Wilson, holding up the blueprint of the Anglo-Soviet trade agreement, was optimistic, “This is a great victory, it is indisputable.”