Chapter 482 – The Factory Debate

It was impossible for the Soviet Union to defeat a group of old imperialist countries plus the United States with the power of one country.

Losing the Cold War was inevitable, but the disintegration was unexpected, and even gave the victor, the United States, a very fatal illusion, causing the United States to remain immersed in this illusion and unable to come out.

The so-called “big land” is a country characterized by a huge amount of resources and a high international status, but for most of the time its people did not have a good life because the per capita amount of resources was not very large.

The situation of the Soviet Union is a bit more special, it has quite a lot of resources per capita in absolute terms, but limited by the difficulty of development and transportation conditions, it is difficult to ensure that everyone can enjoy these resources.

Even during the time of Imperial Russia, as a country, no monarch in Europe dared to despise Imperial Russia, but as a people, living in Russia was worlds apart from living in Western Europe.

The same goes for the Qing, which, as a representative of China’s humiliating dynasties, was bursting at the seams with martial virtue for most of its existence, or it wouldn’t have been so large. Asian countries have few rivals, the British can not beat the Nepalese Qing can handle, to an agricultural country can be put into the Tibetan plateau in formed units and win the war, which reflects the land of the bull’s-eye, even if it is a purely agrarian society, can be born to carry.

Roberts’ current task is to talk to a country with a large land mass about another country with a large land mass, and these two countries with a large land mass have entered a new era, Allen Wilson can only wish this colleague good luck.

As for himself, he followed the itinerary given by the Soviets to visit the Volodymyr district, about the exhibition of the results of the construction of the new era in the USSR, hosted by the first secretary of the Volodymyr district of Moscow, Foltseva.

It is hard to imagine that the two met again under these circumstances, and this time there was a change of circumstances, and Allen Wilson could no longer, as he had done in London, not take the culture tsar seriously.

Foltseva can not be treated like Gromyko, in the final analysis, Allen Wilson dare not do so, a woman initiated madness is capable of doing anything, followed by Allen Wilson tour of the few diplomats, immediately found that their boss all of a sudden kindly eyes up.

Foltseva maintained a gentle and calm state of mind, suppressing the ups and downs of her heart, as a future star with one foot already in the midst of the senior cadres, she certainly understood the importance of looking at the big picture.

“If the Soviet Union is everywhere as the projects we visited today, it could really be an awe-inspiring country.” Allen Wilson followed Foltseva, within the radiation of the fragrant wind, and spoke dizzily.

“This foreign friend, what do you mean by that.” Foltseva turned to look levelly at Allen Wilson, seemingly ready to give everything in defense of the Soviets.

“Literally, you Soviets are always displaying confrontational posturing, which is detrimental to world peace.” Alan Wilson spoke solemnly, “Am I wrong?”

“Why isn’t it you, Britain, who has taken a confrontational stance?” Foltseva asked rhetorically in an unfavorable tone.

“Because I’m British!” Alan Wilson shrugged indifferently and gave an irrefutable answer.

No matter what country a person was born in, he or she had to do the most basic thing to defend the interests of his or her own country. Allen Wilson is British, he is not a Soviet, if he is a Soviet, what old imperialism is just a figure of joy, let him have a place in the Kremlin, the bad luck is the United States and Britain.

Objectively speaking, with the level of science and technology and material resources of the Soviet Union, if properly deployed, in the arms race and people’s lives to choose only one to solve the problem, they can handle it, there is no problem.

The ability of the arms race is not to be mentioned, it is obvious to everyone in the latter days. With the support of the Soviet Union, the Warsaw Pact’s level of armament has never been left behind by NATO, and if the Soviet Union is willing to keep up this dynamic, he can continue to engage in military confrontation with the United States, no problem.

The problem was another military confrontation and a competition for quality of life, the Soviet Union against the United States, Britain, France, Germany, and Japan, and the support of resource-based countries like Canada and Australia, exhausting the Soviet Union could not have won under normal circumstances.

But the Soviet Union is not without a chance to win, the latter days of the Western world is obviously too much freedom, the Soviet Union in the seventies to see the hippies in Europe and the United States, brought about by the decline of social morals and the proliferation of all kinds of crime, but also think that they will win.

But Europe and the United States is a chronic disease, the Soviet Union never dreamed that they were suffering from cerebral infarction, which is very embarrassing.

As for in the ideological confrontation above, Alan Wilson can have no idea, he has been defending the interests of the colonial empire at this stage, the Labor government is also the same, can not continue to rule the colonies scattered, but there are interests in the colonies, Prime Minister Aidley is not ready to scatter, as usual, is a heavy blow.

The meeting of minds that is the United States and the Soviet Union, Britain is not suitable to get involved in it, whether it is the liberation of the world or the self-determination of the nation, are premised on the dismantling of the colonies, there is no reason for Britain to get involved in it.

The Britain that Alan Wilson wants, don’t get hung up on what ism, what works well, so that it can be used in the long run, and even beyond.

Once the confrontation was intense, there were bound to be repercussions, and the Soviet Union ended up dead and the country destroyed, but at the same time it left deep-rooted marks on the victor, the United States.

Originally what ideological steel marks on the United States is dispensable things, before the outbreak of the Cold War, the United States did not have political correctness as well as living well. It turned out that the choice of the free world banner was a weapon for the US to resist the Soviet Union for the sake of the Cold War; it was a necessity for the Soviet Union, but not for the US. As a result, instead of weakening the steel seal of ideas after the Cold War, the US has further strengthened it as a founding principle.

The Soviet Union’s ideology originated from Marx and Engels, and was far stronger than that of the United States in terms of both theoretical perfection and inheritance. The American banner of freedom was originally a muddle, and the Americans themselves did not know what it was.

Naturally, it was useless for Foltseva to show the development of the Soviet Union in front of Alan Wilson. He, a Whitehall civil servant, did not have that notion of any human progress in his head.

Any other American might have retorted with a comment or two, but Allen Wilson didn’t even retort, treating it as if he hadn’t heard.

This makes Foltseva very angry, made up her mind to educate her son properly in the future, so that her own children for the sake of the motherland, crushing people like those in front of her.

“I don’t believe in any propaganda, I only believe in the convenience that technology brings, honorable Ms. Foltseva.” Do not know Foltseva still thinking of using his son to crush his Allen Wilson, Shi Shi said, “You in the introduction of the Soviet Union’s development, if anything, always emphasize the plan, we Britain is not the United States, will not refute the superiority of the plan on certain areas, but the plan can not solve all the problems, you can plan how much you eat today, you can plan how much you can eat in the next year? Can you plan how much you will eat today and how much you will eat in the next year? Even if and when you can, this is bound to create a bias, and the longer it goes on the more big problems it will create.”

“For a country like yours, England, perhaps this would be incomprehensible, but we in the Soviet Union are different ……”

While Foltseva was still defending the motherland in vain, Allen Wilson, however, eyelids flickered and spoke, “Do you know why many countries in Europe are wary of the Soviet Union, it’s because of the mentality of a savior like you, ma’am, are doing right now, guiding us on what to do, and you have to know that many countries in Europe are the successes of the previous era.”

“The colonial era? That was a sin!” Foltseva said, very unsurprised, “It seems that this gentleman is quite a defender of that evil, which is surprising.”

“It looks like Ms. Foltseva, didn’t take my words at face value.” Without further ado, Alan Wilson left off, “British citizens live better than Soviet citizens, and no amount of lecturing is going to help in this situation. And such preaching will only lead to confrontation.”

“The development of the world is not in the middle of a static state, the life that Britain enjoys now is something that can be achieved by the struggles of its citizens, and once the Soviet Union reaches the level of Britain, Mr. Allen will see the difference. All he has to do is be born in the Soviet Union and he can easily enjoy it.”

Foltseva wasn’t prepared to let Allen Wilson off the hook so easily, and the two men began to debate around the factory they were visiting on this tour.

Your words and mine even caught the minds of the British diplomats and Soviet cadres next to the two men.

“Why is it so much like a kitchen debate?” Alan Wilson suddenly had a flash of light in his head, decisively terminated the nonsense with the big hairy girl, turned to the colleague next to him and whispered, “It’s a mistake for me to reason with a woman.”

This is in the eyes of Foltseva, properly an annoyance to carry out sexism, but out of her expectation, several British diplomats are very recognized nodded, “They are too emotional, not as rational as us ……”

“It’s either crybaby or hogwash!”

A group of moral vacuum, completely standing in Alan Wilson’s point of view, expressed their approval of such sexist remarks.

In the evening Alan Wilson and Roberts, who had talked about mediation, and others then returned to the hotel where they were staying to report the results to Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevan, and naturally mentioned what had happened on the tour of the factory.

“Allen, you may leave words in your mouth in this way, and if you are an electee, you may lose the election for it.” Ernest Bevan spoke helplessly after hearing this.

“Honorable minister, how could I look down on women, I love women, my fiancée is a woman.” Alan Wilson vehemently denied his daytime remarks.

“Molotov expressed his willingness to negotiate about the establishment of a transparency mechanism. This could be considered a great diplomatic achievement if the Soviet Union could withdraw some troops to show good faith.”

After listening to Allen Wilson’s anecdote, Ernest Bevin had a relieved look on his face and said that the results of this trip could still be expected.