Bi Yue laughed and said, "The process of transporting the plane back was very complicated and tedious. It required the cooperation of various departments and hundreds of factories. It's not something I could handle alone. It's such a big thing, right? I can't explain it in a few words. It's not really a secret. As for the suffering of the Soviet people?"
Chu Yifeng poured Bi Yue a glass of wine and encouraged her, "Tell us about it, tell us in detail. We can't even leave the country."
Bi Yue thought about how to describe it:
"Let's talk about housing first. The Su Kingdom is very strange. They almost want to build all the houses the same.
You see a building in one city, and when you go to another city, you will have the illusion that you are still in the same town.
There are many tall buildings and it looks very rich.
In terms of living, social security is good. Children there go to school for free, with free lunch, free books, free medical care and insurance upon entering school, free school buses, and free…”
Wang Daniu's eyes widened again: "Car pick-up?"
Bi Yue nodded:
"Big man, cars are a rarity in our country, but other countries don't lack them. I was talking to someone like the Director of the Kyoto Transportation Bureau, and he said there are 800,000 cars in Moscow alone. And the number is still growing."
Also, for example, it is difficult for us to buy a piano, TV and install a telephone, but most families in the Soviet Union have them.
The people there dress well too. The women have permed hair and wear all kinds of skirts, while the men wear suits and ties and smoke cigars, making them look very fashionable.
To be honest, Bi Yue dressed like the people in our country in the mid-to-late 1990s.
Especially the school uniforms. Tsk, the school uniforms in our country are still the same, not to mention now, even in the next century.
The four soldiers were puzzled, including Chu Yifeng. It's human nature not to like other countries being stronger than our own, and not wanting to admit it:
"Wife, from what you said, they are thriving. That's not right. Who did you sell your old man's shirt to? You clearly export clothing."
Bi Yue smiled: "I will now tell you about the bad things about that place."
Qiao Yan immediately applauded: "Welcome."
"They look rich. But let's not talk about cars, which are like their tanks and airplanes, because they focus on producing them. There's no comparison."
Let's talk about clothing. It was winter when I went there, and many women wore furs, but if you really look closely, few of them are real. You can't tell what kind of fur is underneath.
Old-man shirts are their taste and their need; light industrial products are indeed in short supply. Leather jackets, the ones we import in our country, all fade and have quality issues, but they save money and wear them to look stylish.
I think in real life they only have a few pieces of clothing year-round. The gap between the rich and the poor is obvious at a glance.
Food, clothing, housing and transportation, food and clothing are the two basic necessities, and we lack everything else.
"We had to queue up to buy bread, and our faces looked like we were waiting for food. We also had to queue up to buy all kinds of food, and the food was terrible because they didn't sell it at the counter. Fruit was even worse. Seeing a fruit seller was like being shaken by the mayor himself."
"Haha, that's what I said!"
Bi Yue looked at the few people who were showing their emotions, thinking that they were not far from collapse, and continued to say with a smile:
"And their economy is definitely going to be in trouble. It should be obvious by now that all the problems are driven by the economic situation.
I've personally seen workers leave the cranes running while cargo is suspended, not shutting down the machines, and then going to have afternoon tea or go home to sleep. As for when they can return to work, many people are simply putting it off for as long as possible. It's completely different from our country.
Even so, all the people were busy building railways, making airplanes, and researching cannons. Anyway, that was all. No one paid attention to agricultural production or other aspects of life.
It's like two families: one family earns money to eat, wear, and have fun, but they have no savings and cannot pay when something urgent happens.
Another family is reluctant to eat or drink, and saves money all year round just to buy a house. They would like to save money on food, but the price is their health.
Either of these two types is enough to cause a person to suffer a mental breakdown over time.
And I think of the Soviet Union as a second family. All its energy is focused on, uh, manufacturing and the military."
Lu Qingcang spoke in a hoarse voice, his voice was just like that: "Sister-in-law, you are right, that is a crazy fighting nation."
“I also saw a tank.”
Bi Yue noticed everyone was looking at her, as if they believed she was so capable that she had infiltrated the army. She took a sip of wine to moisten her throat and quickly explained, "It's not surprising that they're there. They're discarded ones, so they're just thrown there. I don't understand these things, and there are also engineering vehicles, but I think the discarded ones are pretty good too."
Chu Yifeng started a numerical debate again. There was nothing he didn't understand. Bi Yuete admired her manliness for this.
A deep male voice said, "We all know about the military exercises in 1981. It was a sea of people, artillery, aircraft, tanks, and missiles. The Soviet Union has only fallen from its peak in recent years, and the reputation of the fighting nation at that time was well-deserved."
I remember when my cousin came back to China for the first time a few years ago, I read in an authoritative magazine he brought back that the United States suspected that the Soviet Union had more than 50,000 main battle tanks, tens of thousands of armored combat vehicles, artillery, and surface-to-surface missile launchers. How many do you think there were?
A few years ago, Su Guoguang's army had at least two million soldiers, didn't it? "
Qiao Yan picked up a cup and drank it immediately, then wiped his mouth and shouted, "That fighting nation is really crazy!"
Bi Yue tilted her head and smiled at Chu Yifeng: "Well, I forgot who told me that. They said that the Soviet Union's military strength back then was so strong that it made Western European countries tremble after a military exercise. They asked the US military to withdraw its troops before, but now that there are military exercises here, they keep requesting to send more troops, right?"
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