Chapter 1718 – The Collective Will of Europe

On the Berlin side, Alan Wilson was holed up, keeping a close eye on the news from Moscow, and by the time Mrs. Thatcher had finished her speech extolling the effectiveness and necessity of the Berlin Wall, and there was no sign of any wind in her sails, he knew that the venture had been a success.

It was now 1990, five years after Maphead had come to power, and, not surprisingly, the Soviet Union had seen five consecutive years of negative growth.

Maphead’s most authoritative title had also changed from First Secretary to Chairman of the Supreme Soviet, and there were still only three countries left in the whole of Eastern Europe that retained a socialist political system, and since Bulgaria’s announcement of the reforms, those three countries were the GDR, Czechoslovakia, and Romania.

And these three countries are different, because the GDR and Czechoslovakia have nearly been contracted out to the British and French partitions, which are of course exceptions to the explanation given to Washington that these two countries must have naturally shifted their systems when necessary, rather than making a sudden turn.

The reason is still in the containment of the Federal Republic of Germany to expand its sphere of influence in Eastern Europe, Washington in fact know this very well, Margaret Thatcher is almost a year of diplomacy around Germany, who still see the British in the end how to think?

And in Washington, also discussed the British and French, is not to see the Soviet Union can not? There was the idea of grabbing a sphere of influence.

Indeed there is this idea, even if the British side is singing about the special relationship between Britain and the United States, but always the top of the coffin board of the lid open, which is always not reassuring to the top of the mountain city. While there had been discussions about whether or not to educate Britain and France, the Soviet Union was still around, and the US couldn’t do that right now.

Alan Wilson has always thought that the United States side are smart people, so in his heart it is clear that the British move to seize the interests of the United States can not be fooled, so to stop the reunification of Germany this matter not only to use the full force of the promotion, but also to make a fanfare of high-profile handle, so that the seizure of interests to become logical.

Continuous rotation of Mrs. Thatcher, after all, is also sixty-five years old, even if it is in the performance of the spirit of a hundred times, consecutively visit two Germany also need to rest rest.

At this time, Arnold was looking for the door, and his own Cabinet Secretary General father walked around, introduced his own work results, after divesting the profit-making enterprises, the next stage is the next stage of privatization of the difficult bones, he still has a lot of not quite clear places hope that his father to solve the puzzle.

“The GDR was founded with twenty-one million people, now it’s less than twenty million. A population of that size doesn’t really need any small, all-encompassing industrial layout. The whole country can concentrate on the automobile and semiconductor industries, neither of which needs to be developed too dramatically, the Audi Group’s entire out of the three automobile brands, with global sales reaching around two million, would be enough for the GDR to lead a not-too-bad life. And the GDR has cheap Soviet energy to supplement it if the political system doesn’t change.”

Alan Wilson thought for a moment and said, “And the semiconductor industry can absorb all the electronics talent in Eastern Europe, including the Soviet Union, and the market can be solved through internal Eastern Europe. Capture those two industries, and I don’t think it would be much worse than the level of the Federal Republic of Germany.”

He felt how it could almost be similar to the twenty-first century’s Fraud Island, once Fraud Island’s panel industry, that is, the screen was also strong for a period of time, occupying forty percent of the world, but probably after the first ten years of the twenty-first century, it was defeated by South Korea, and after the panel industry did not work, the Fraud Island could be called the premier only left TSMC.

“Tell the Germans to concentrate the nation’s strength on automobiles and semiconductors, with the Audi Group and the Dresden Microelectronics Center as the core of development, other industries in addition to indeed have an advantage, or else the whole thing is not given up, and at the government level, pinch water and electricity to ensure the government’s financial resources.”

Alan Wilson said this, “Difficult to raise prices, right? Your mother in the eastern hemisphere on the operation of water and electricity companies, as long as she injected a portion of the capital, the GDR government will have an excuse to raise prices, sooner or later you will find that water and electricity this is the source of huge cash flow.”

When it comes down to it, 20 million GDR is still good to get, grab two strong industries and you won’t get by too badly, like countries with large populations aren’t so lucky.

For example, a big country with sound, under the premise that a big country with the same population size exists, even if a big country stays put from now on, a big country with sound develops to 10,000 per capita, and the only way to do so is to take down all the remaining industries in Europe and the United States, except for a big country.

In fact, in other words, if science and technology in not progress, no new industries appear, a certain big country even if all the world’s industries are abolished, only to be left with an industrial country, just barely able to squeeze into the threshold of the developed countries in the middle of a certain big country development is destined to be difficult, but a sound big country is even more difficult.

Arnold nodded his head like a chicken pecking at rice, “Indeed, a small population is not a disadvantage, a small population has fewer problems.”

“How is the public opinion in the GDR, especially when looking at the issue of German unification.” Alan Wilson took the initiative to ask this question, the economic problem is difficult but not the most difficult, it is necessary to know the current view of the GDR on German unification.

“This question, ah, at first it was indeed very enthusiastic, especially after the ten articles program was put forward.” Arnold couldn’t help but laugh out loud, “But since the Prime Minister opened the Ring of Germany diplomacy and widely established camps in Europe to stop German unification, the situation has stabilized a lot, and since the Federal Republic of Germany encountered the beginning of the energy crisis, the citizens of the GDR seem to have the feeling that their dreams have been shattered.”

Arnold did not deny that as a mover of information he had a meaningful role in shaping public opinion in this instance, after all, he was also British and everything was in the national interest.

“The fact that we have taken a hostile stance against the FRG is indeed a sign to the citizens of the GDR. What unrealistic illusions does the GDR still have about the free world? Britain doesn’t mind poking and prodding them one by one, all on their brothers in the West.” Alan Wilson smirked, “It’s all for the sake of European peace.”

Allen Wilson’s heart knows very well, in fact, the two German exchanges are very close, unlike the 38th parallel between North Korea and South Korea, the military demarcation line is clearly separated and tightly controlled. The circulation between the two Germanys is much more frequent, and it is a two-way circulation, more than just citizens of the GDR fleeing to live in the FRG, and vice versa.

If it was just a handful of people, naturally it wouldn’t be worth noting, but the scale of this is very large, let’s put it this way, nearly two million people have run away from the GDR to live in the West over the decades, but there is still a third of that number that has run away from the West to the East, and 600,000 to 700,000 is not a bad number.

There is far more movement of people in Germany than there is on the Korean Peninsula, and Allen Wilson concludes that Bonn and Berlin are actually well-informed about each other, unlike the Koreans who say that North Korea, basically, is a rumor.

“Kohl didn’t give us his word this time, he thinks there’s nothing we can do, maybe we should rethink the GDR’s position.” Alan Wilson whispered to his son, this time Margaret Thatcher suddenly appeared in the GDR, immediately effective seemer.

Arnold frowned and thought for a moment, and said in a tone of certainty, “I think Portugal should be the next to visit Berlin, right?”

Alan Wilson nodded his head in satisfaction, the friendly relations established between the female Prime Minister and the Portuguese had also been decades old, which did not end because of the end of the Salazar system, on the contrary, the reason why Portugal was able to not suffer from the backlash after the loss of its colonies was that there was Britain’s credit in it.

The current President of Portugal, Antonio Ramalho Eyanes, is a military man, and in fact the Presidents of Portugal since the end of the Sarachan system up to this point have all been military men.

After a day’s rest and rejuvenation, Mrs. Thatcher, accompanied by her British economic advisors, visited the fruits of British privatization, the restructured GDR automotive industry, the Audi Group, which is in litigation with the Federal Republic of Germany, and the Dresden Microelectronics Group.

After inspecting two groups that are symbols of friendship between Britain and Germany, Mrs. Thatcher expressed her optimism about the future of the GDR and Britain’s willingness to develop relations with the GDR, a full member of the United Nations.

Mrs. Thatcher’s two-day succession of endorsements for the Oncker government, and also for British-style privatization, for which she was credited, soon found their way into the homes of GDR citizens through Berlin’s state-run television.

The focus of the news, of course, was mainly on Margaret Thatcher standing under the Berlin Wall and praising it as an understandable establishment of a border management system that is necessary in any country.

It’s normal that the GDR resisted the stronger FRG, and now the UK is preventing the GDR from being swallowed by the FRG, different positions and different perspectives on the issue.

Margaret Thatcher’s endorsement of the GDR played a major role in the development of diplomacy around Germany, and the British Prime Minister didn’t mind being the first to be the villain? Then what reason would Kohl have to object if other countries followed suit?

Right after Mrs. Thatcher announced the end of the two German visits, Portuguese President Eyanes immediately announced that he was going to launch a friendly visit to the GDR, and this ally of Britain for seven hundred years was the first one to jump in and help out the factory by announcing that he was going to visit Berlin, after receiving a signal from London.

The GDR’s leader, Honecker, immediately welcomed the visit, “The GDR needs the support of all European countries to develop, and to stand at the forefront of the world in the new era, it needs a wide range of friends.”

As a close ally of Germany, the Italian Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti absolutely can not be absent, immediately after Portugal announced, to visit the GDR, the French President Mitterrand’s reaction is not fast, but immediately know what the British hit, have to admit that Britain’s diplomacy is really enough, quickly joined the overall will of Europe.

Kohl’s idea of unifying the two Germanys had the effect of one punch not opening, leading to a hundred punches, and the whole of the Federal Republic of Germany was plunged into the sea of the European masses.