By the anniversary of the end of the first world war
The next anniversary of the end of the First World War is approaching. Soon a century of blowjob from the time when 8 November 1918, in the Compiegne Forest, was a truce, which put an end to the most senseless slaughter stories of humanity. Let us briefly and succinctly enumerate some significant moments of this war, comprehend some of the results of this epoch-making event and extrapolate the lessons of this colossal geopolitical catastrophe for our possible future.
World War I was very different in character from previous and subsequent ones. The previous decades before the war in military affairs were characterized primarily by the fact that in their development weapon defense sharply gone ahead compared with the offensive weapon. On the battlefield, a rapid-fire magazine rifle, a rapid-fire rifled breech-loading gun, and of course a machine gun began to dominate. All these weapons were well combined with powerful engineering preparation of defensive positions: solid trenches with communications, thousands of kilometers of barbed wire, strong points with dugouts, pillboxes, bunkers, forts, fortifications, etc. Under these conditions, any attempt by the troops to attack ended in a catastrophe such as the defeat of the Russian army in the Mazovian swamps or turned into a merciless meat grinder, as under Verdun. The war for many years has become less manoeuvrable, trench, positional.
But military people tirelessly sought solutions. Have appeared Tanks, armored cars, armored trains, bombers, chemical weapons, mortars and flamethrowers began to be used in large quantities. Theorists developed the theory of deep offensive operation, later called the Blitzkrieg theory in the German version. In the Russian army, this work was led by the best minds of the General Staff. In pursuance of new theoretical ideas, two shock armies began to form in Russia, one for the Western and the other for the South-Western fronts. In the Russian version, they were called horse-mechanized groups. Dozens of armored trains, hundreds of armored cars and airplanes were built for them. Several hundred thousand units of special uniforms were sewn, leather - for pilots, crews of armored squads and armored trains, as well as special uniforms for cavalrymen with red for 1 army and blue for 2 army breeders and original headdresses, cap-heroes. Stockpiled a huge amount of weapons and ammunition. All this wealth was stored in special warehouses along the Moscow-Minsk and Moscow-Kiev highways. The offensive was planned for the summer of 1917. At the beginning of this year, the best cavalry officers and techies were recalled from the front and at military schools they began to be taught to conduct war in a new way. In both capitals, dozens of training centers for the training of crews were created, tens of thousands of literate workers, technicians and engineers were mobilized from enterprises, removing their reservation. But they did not have much desire to fight, and the anti-war propaganda of the Cadets, liberals and socialists completed the job. In fact, the soldiers of these metropolitan training regiments and armed with Kerensky, to protect the revolution from front-line soldiers, the workers then carried out the October Revolution. But the property and weapons accumulated for the Russian shock armies were not in vain. Leather and Mausers were very fond of the Chekists and commissars, and the cavalry uniform went for uniforms 1 and 2 of the cavalry armies and red commanders and then became known as Budennovskaya.
Unprecedented losses and several years of great trench seating led to demoralization of the existing armies, then led to mass desertion, riots and revolutions, and ultimately ended with the collapse of the powerful empires of the Russian, Austro-Hungarian, German and Ottoman. And, despite the victory, apart from them, 4 mighty colonial empires, British and French, began to collapse and began to collapse.
But the real winner in this war was the United States of America. They profited unspeakably on military supplies, not only swept clean all the gold reserves and budgets of the Entente powers, but also imposed on them enslaving debts. Having entered the war at the final stage, the United States grabbed not only a substantial share of the laurels of victors, but also a bold piece of reparations and indemnities from the vanquished. It was America's finest hour. Only a century ago, US President Monroe proclaimed the doctrine of "America for the Americans" and the United States entered into a stubborn and merciless struggle to squeeze the European colonial powers from the American continent. But after the Versailles Peace, no single power could do anything in the Western Hemisphere without the permission of the United States. It was a triumph of visionary strategy and a decisive step towards world domination.
It should be said that not only the United States turned out to be lucky in this war. At least 4 more powers came out after it strongly strengthened materially, morally and physically. These are Canada, Australia, Argentina and Japan. But their further fate and history are very different and instructive, including for today's Russia.
Let's start with a sweet Anglo-Saxon couple, whose fate is very similar and safe. This is Canada and Australia. Being at that time the British dominions, they were forced to take part in military operations on the side of the Entente. But their main task was the supply of weapons, materials, raw materials and food for the warring countries. Having already autonomous budgets from the metropolis, they made a good profit on this. It was then that the raw orientation of their economies was clearly delineated. But unlike our reckless intellectuals, who never know what they want and what they fight for, the role of the raw material appendage of the world economy did not upset and puzzled the Canadian and Australian publics. Rather the opposite. These countries very successfully directed the proceeds to increase the extraction of raw materials, its deeper processing and infrastructure development. For example, up to 20-ies from the Pacific coast to the Atlantic, in Canada it was possible to pass only through the territory of the USA. Trans-Canadian highways began to be built in the 20-e years. The Great Depression and World War II introduced new adjustments. Realizing the vulnerability of a purely commodity-oriented orientation, both countries implemented extensive import substitution and self-sufficiency programs. Since 60, they practically everything that they consume, produce under their world brands and is of very high quality. At the same time, the export of these goods, including advanced mining equipment, vehicles, equipment, etc., as we say, finished products is relatively small. The basis of exports are still food, raw materials and semi-finished products. Imports are also relatively small. Such a structure and orientation of the economy allows these countries to have stable surpluses in all spheres of economic activity for decades and is the basis of the model of sustainable development of these countries. At the same time, their home-grown intelligentsia does not sing endless and mournful goat songs about the raw materials appendage, probably also with their minds there is a surplus.
Argentina showed a different approach. Coming out of World War I, the richest (after the USA) country of the American continent, she failed to convert this wealth into the concept of sustainable development. Argentina sent almost all acquired consumption. He won the slogan: “we produce a lot of food, we export it, we will buy everything else”. This proved to be counterproductive and as a result, the country missed its historic chance. Only in the 80-s, after the final collapse of Peronism, did the country actually adopt the Canadian-Australian model of development for itself and now began to catch up with varying success.
But the Japanese were the coolest. They also profited immensely on supplies, they became sick with the deadly virus of megalomania, which is known to be worse than a venereal disease and is hardly cured. Loud-voiced local patriots came to power everywhere, starting with the village council and ending with the state council under the emperor. This imperial euphoria ended in a terrible military-political catastrophe in 1945. For its very nasty behavior, the country was lowered below the baseboard in all areas. And she would have been there today, but they were lucky a second time. After the communists came to power in China and with the beginning of the Korean War, Japan turned into the near rear of the western kaolition, with all the ensuing benefits. The Vietnam War and the endless conflict of China and Taiwan have further strengthened this status and forgive the Japanese. They used the chance adequately and made a giant spurt in 60-80-e. But megalomania does not pass without a trace, and they again began to rave about leadership in the Asia-Pacific region. The punishment was not long in coming, and in 90-s the world masters staged a major crisis for them, thus recalling the proximity of the plinth and holding it for almost 2 for decades. But it looks like a growing US-China rivalry will soon be forgiven again.
Well, now in the above examples we will try to draw conclusions for ourselves. But:
- Appealing to the mind of patriots is absolutely meaningless. They constantly and chronically itching face. Even the very instructive defeat of the USSR in the Cold War did not cure them of this disease, that there are tragic examples of Japan or Germany for them. Therefore, for them the most important thing is not even to fight, but just to eat. Well, their manic passion is constantly peeing against the wind, it is generally a separate issue.
- It is even more senseless to appeal to the mind of the defeatists, collaborators, compradors, Westernizers and liberal activists. They have only our enemies are always right, holy and blameless, and for them the most important thing is not so much the worship of the West, as the pathological desire to lick this very West in the ass. For them in this article there is no example to follow, for them it is in Georgia.
- Appealing to the minds of the possessors, the thieves, the thieves, the glutton and motov also does not make much sense. Their main slogan: "after us even the flood." For them, the example of post-war Argentina is not at all instructive, but very positive and desirable.
I appeal to the mind of the working class of pragmatists who are not indifferent to the fate of our country and its people, and at the same time the nonsense of gorlopanov, demagogues and dogmatists are alien. And from the point of view of this very pragmatism, it is useful to carefully look at the experience of Canada and Australia in creating a model of sustainable development.
And a no-brainer that we are quite different, namely:
- firstly, we are not Anglo-Saxons and never were, we will not and will not be able to. This is no comment.
- secondly, we are not US satellites and we will never be with them any more, although we could have been. Comments are relevant here. At the end of 80, the beginning of 90, an incredible surge of Americanism and difficult to explain piety in front of the West occurred in the popular consciousness of the USSR. From the height of the years I have experienced, I can’t even clearly explain to myself the gnoseology of this phenomenon and will simply refer to the symptoms of mass psychosis. In this case, it does not matter. It is important that America and the West have missed this unique chance, against the background of mass reverence, to make the entire post-Soviet space, including Russia, its satellite. Instead, they declared the USSR defeated, and its people had to kneel down, sprinkle ashes on their heads and together begin to lick the West in the ass, as the Germans and the Japanese once did. But the Russians, with the exception of Vlasovites and compradors, did not want to do this, if only because they were not defeated, they were simply betrayed. The Americans did not understand that even then, Russia was the only country in the world capable of destroying the United States, although at the cost of its own life. But god with them, it is their mistake, for which they will have to pay dearly. And in the most direct, and not figuratively, gold and banknotes. Since they didn’t have enough sense then to get an alliance and friendship with Russia by kindness and affection, they would have to try to buy it, but not the fact that we are stormy.
- thirdly, our countries still have quite different size, scale and volume of muscles
But we have much more in common with Canada and Australia:
- first, we have huge and underdeveloped territories, with huge resources
- secondly, relatively numerous, but rare in terms of the size of the territory and the population very unevenly distributed throughout the territory
- thirdly, the harsh climate and it does not matter that in Canada and Russia to-50, and in Australia to + 50, raw materials have to be used on a rotational basis, there are few people who want to live in these conditions
- in the fourth, a huge export of raw materials and semi-finished products
- in the fifth, these countries give us a worthy, and most importantly, useful and adequate example of the effective development of a raw materials economy. These examples are fundamentally different from the useless examples from the development of countries with completely different natural, climatic, demographic, economic, mental and other conditions that are replicated and imposed by Gaidarast.
- in the sixth, a similar type of mentality. We are Asians, but with European multi-ethnic roots, they are also not local, but the roots are also European and by no means mono-ethnic. The mental type is also very important. I, for example, deliberately excluded South Africa from the example to follow (they also made a good profit of that war) only because of the mentality of its population, which is unique in its turretlessness.
But for the rest, we need to pull ourselves up strongly and above all in matters of import substitution and the termination of unjustified export of capital abroad, which by the way is quite connected. Moreover, our country has actually, albeit intuitively, already embarked on this path of implementing the Canadian-Australian model of sustainable development.
A lot has already been done on import substitution. Development programs have been successfully implemented and the import of poultry meat, eggs, bread products, pipes, metal-roll, nuclear and power engineering products, and helicopters has almost ceased, and these industries are exported. Programs are being implemented and the share of imports of cars, electronics, household appliances, pork meat, metal products 3 and 4 redistribution, some types of equipment is rapidly decreasing. More needs to be done. Every year, huge amounts of money are exported abroad to pay for imports of metallurgical, mining, engineering, agricultural, food processing equipment, beef, ships and airplanes, clothing and footwear. In these areas, the share of domestic producers is undeservedly small. These import substitution programs are under development or only at the beginning of implementation.
In this case, following the example of our counterpart, you should not go too far. They do not force the production and export of finished products. They, for example, have several places where deposits of iron ore and coking coal are located nearby. It would seem that God himself ordered to build a metallurgical plant there and take out the finished products. But they prefer to export coal and iron ore concentrate, and let the metal from these concentrates be produced in China, Korea, and Japan. There are several reasons for this.
- at current prices from the extraction and enrichment of raw materials, a good and stable income
- with the development of production for more advanced processing of raw materials for export, along with value added, there remains “smoke and dirt” in the country and many other undesirable environmental problems that require high costs for waste disposal and emissions
- relatively small population in these countries. If in the mining industry there is a relatively high labor productivity, which does not require large imports of labor, then with the excessive development of the manufacturing industry for export, large imports of labor from Asia are required, which introduces many undesirable demographic problems.
So in these questions there is something to learn from them. Therefore, attention should be focused primarily on import substitution, and not on the production of finished products for export.
A separate topic is the export of capital abroad. Here the horse did not roll. The massive and unpunished flight of disgraced oligarchs with fantastic, stolen capital abroad simply enrages the public consciousness, regardless of the level of education and life. The people simply crave punishment for renegades, the power is inactive. The opposition, in terms of theft, is even worse than power. Yes, and with our people is not all clear, this is not the lamb of God. As Count Arakcheev used to say, the main occupation of Russian subjects is that they steal, and at least half of their subjects, from young to old, from poor people to oligarchs, are being stolen. It would be half the trouble if they were spending their stolen goods in Russia, building houses, summer cottages, factories, buying things, going to sanatoriums, to the Black Sea coast and spending money there. But no. He also stole a little over the hill, the poor man was a tourist, the middle peasant was trying to buy a house somewhere in Macedonia, an oligarch factory somewhere in Britain. Take out billions of dollars. And all for nothing, throw everywhere. The Turks will poison the poor man with whiskey or turned upside down with a bus, at the middle peasant the Albanians requisition a house in Macedonia under a specious pretext, the Chinese will ruin the oligarch's factory. It remains one zilch, neither myself nor the country nor the people. Such is the main Russian misfortune, it is more serious than fools and roads, and especially import substitution. But with this, I'm sure something can be done.
There are worthy examples, they should be studied and adopted. As the saying goes: the goals are clear, the tasks are defined, for the work of comrades!
World War I was very different in character from previous and subsequent ones. The previous decades before the war in military affairs were characterized primarily by the fact that in their development weapon defense sharply gone ahead compared with the offensive weapon. On the battlefield, a rapid-fire magazine rifle, a rapid-fire rifled breech-loading gun, and of course a machine gun began to dominate. All these weapons were well combined with powerful engineering preparation of defensive positions: solid trenches with communications, thousands of kilometers of barbed wire, strong points with dugouts, pillboxes, bunkers, forts, fortifications, etc. Under these conditions, any attempt by the troops to attack ended in a catastrophe such as the defeat of the Russian army in the Mazovian swamps or turned into a merciless meat grinder, as under Verdun. The war for many years has become less manoeuvrable, trench, positional.
But military people tirelessly sought solutions. Have appeared Tanks, armored cars, armored trains, bombers, chemical weapons, mortars and flamethrowers began to be used in large quantities. Theorists developed the theory of deep offensive operation, later called the Blitzkrieg theory in the German version. In the Russian army, this work was led by the best minds of the General Staff. In pursuance of new theoretical ideas, two shock armies began to form in Russia, one for the Western and the other for the South-Western fronts. In the Russian version, they were called horse-mechanized groups. Dozens of armored trains, hundreds of armored cars and airplanes were built for them. Several hundred thousand units of special uniforms were sewn, leather - for pilots, crews of armored squads and armored trains, as well as special uniforms for cavalrymen with red for 1 army and blue for 2 army breeders and original headdresses, cap-heroes. Stockpiled a huge amount of weapons and ammunition. All this wealth was stored in special warehouses along the Moscow-Minsk and Moscow-Kiev highways. The offensive was planned for the summer of 1917. At the beginning of this year, the best cavalry officers and techies were recalled from the front and at military schools they began to be taught to conduct war in a new way. In both capitals, dozens of training centers for the training of crews were created, tens of thousands of literate workers, technicians and engineers were mobilized from enterprises, removing their reservation. But they did not have much desire to fight, and the anti-war propaganda of the Cadets, liberals and socialists completed the job. In fact, the soldiers of these metropolitan training regiments and armed with Kerensky, to protect the revolution from front-line soldiers, the workers then carried out the October Revolution. But the property and weapons accumulated for the Russian shock armies were not in vain. Leather and Mausers were very fond of the Chekists and commissars, and the cavalry uniform went for uniforms 1 and 2 of the cavalry armies and red commanders and then became known as Budennovskaya.
Unprecedented losses and several years of great trench seating led to demoralization of the existing armies, then led to mass desertion, riots and revolutions, and ultimately ended with the collapse of the powerful empires of the Russian, Austro-Hungarian, German and Ottoman. And, despite the victory, apart from them, 4 mighty colonial empires, British and French, began to collapse and began to collapse.
But the real winner in this war was the United States of America. They profited unspeakably on military supplies, not only swept clean all the gold reserves and budgets of the Entente powers, but also imposed on them enslaving debts. Having entered the war at the final stage, the United States grabbed not only a substantial share of the laurels of victors, but also a bold piece of reparations and indemnities from the vanquished. It was America's finest hour. Only a century ago, US President Monroe proclaimed the doctrine of "America for the Americans" and the United States entered into a stubborn and merciless struggle to squeeze the European colonial powers from the American continent. But after the Versailles Peace, no single power could do anything in the Western Hemisphere without the permission of the United States. It was a triumph of visionary strategy and a decisive step towards world domination.
It should be said that not only the United States turned out to be lucky in this war. At least 4 more powers came out after it strongly strengthened materially, morally and physically. These are Canada, Australia, Argentina and Japan. But their further fate and history are very different and instructive, including for today's Russia.
Let's start with a sweet Anglo-Saxon couple, whose fate is very similar and safe. This is Canada and Australia. Being at that time the British dominions, they were forced to take part in military operations on the side of the Entente. But their main task was the supply of weapons, materials, raw materials and food for the warring countries. Having already autonomous budgets from the metropolis, they made a good profit on this. It was then that the raw orientation of their economies was clearly delineated. But unlike our reckless intellectuals, who never know what they want and what they fight for, the role of the raw material appendage of the world economy did not upset and puzzled the Canadian and Australian publics. Rather the opposite. These countries very successfully directed the proceeds to increase the extraction of raw materials, its deeper processing and infrastructure development. For example, up to 20-ies from the Pacific coast to the Atlantic, in Canada it was possible to pass only through the territory of the USA. Trans-Canadian highways began to be built in the 20-e years. The Great Depression and World War II introduced new adjustments. Realizing the vulnerability of a purely commodity-oriented orientation, both countries implemented extensive import substitution and self-sufficiency programs. Since 60, they practically everything that they consume, produce under their world brands and is of very high quality. At the same time, the export of these goods, including advanced mining equipment, vehicles, equipment, etc., as we say, finished products is relatively small. The basis of exports are still food, raw materials and semi-finished products. Imports are also relatively small. Such a structure and orientation of the economy allows these countries to have stable surpluses in all spheres of economic activity for decades and is the basis of the model of sustainable development of these countries. At the same time, their home-grown intelligentsia does not sing endless and mournful goat songs about the raw materials appendage, probably also with their minds there is a surplus.
Argentina showed a different approach. Coming out of World War I, the richest (after the USA) country of the American continent, she failed to convert this wealth into the concept of sustainable development. Argentina sent almost all acquired consumption. He won the slogan: “we produce a lot of food, we export it, we will buy everything else”. This proved to be counterproductive and as a result, the country missed its historic chance. Only in the 80-s, after the final collapse of Peronism, did the country actually adopt the Canadian-Australian model of development for itself and now began to catch up with varying success.
But the Japanese were the coolest. They also profited immensely on supplies, they became sick with the deadly virus of megalomania, which is known to be worse than a venereal disease and is hardly cured. Loud-voiced local patriots came to power everywhere, starting with the village council and ending with the state council under the emperor. This imperial euphoria ended in a terrible military-political catastrophe in 1945. For its very nasty behavior, the country was lowered below the baseboard in all areas. And she would have been there today, but they were lucky a second time. After the communists came to power in China and with the beginning of the Korean War, Japan turned into the near rear of the western kaolition, with all the ensuing benefits. The Vietnam War and the endless conflict of China and Taiwan have further strengthened this status and forgive the Japanese. They used the chance adequately and made a giant spurt in 60-80-e. But megalomania does not pass without a trace, and they again began to rave about leadership in the Asia-Pacific region. The punishment was not long in coming, and in 90-s the world masters staged a major crisis for them, thus recalling the proximity of the plinth and holding it for almost 2 for decades. But it looks like a growing US-China rivalry will soon be forgiven again.
Well, now in the above examples we will try to draw conclusions for ourselves. But:
- Appealing to the mind of patriots is absolutely meaningless. They constantly and chronically itching face. Even the very instructive defeat of the USSR in the Cold War did not cure them of this disease, that there are tragic examples of Japan or Germany for them. Therefore, for them the most important thing is not even to fight, but just to eat. Well, their manic passion is constantly peeing against the wind, it is generally a separate issue.
- It is even more senseless to appeal to the mind of the defeatists, collaborators, compradors, Westernizers and liberal activists. They have only our enemies are always right, holy and blameless, and for them the most important thing is not so much the worship of the West, as the pathological desire to lick this very West in the ass. For them in this article there is no example to follow, for them it is in Georgia.
- Appealing to the minds of the possessors, the thieves, the thieves, the glutton and motov also does not make much sense. Their main slogan: "after us even the flood." For them, the example of post-war Argentina is not at all instructive, but very positive and desirable.
I appeal to the mind of the working class of pragmatists who are not indifferent to the fate of our country and its people, and at the same time the nonsense of gorlopanov, demagogues and dogmatists are alien. And from the point of view of this very pragmatism, it is useful to carefully look at the experience of Canada and Australia in creating a model of sustainable development.
And a no-brainer that we are quite different, namely:
- firstly, we are not Anglo-Saxons and never were, we will not and will not be able to. This is no comment.
- secondly, we are not US satellites and we will never be with them any more, although we could have been. Comments are relevant here. At the end of 80, the beginning of 90, an incredible surge of Americanism and difficult to explain piety in front of the West occurred in the popular consciousness of the USSR. From the height of the years I have experienced, I can’t even clearly explain to myself the gnoseology of this phenomenon and will simply refer to the symptoms of mass psychosis. In this case, it does not matter. It is important that America and the West have missed this unique chance, against the background of mass reverence, to make the entire post-Soviet space, including Russia, its satellite. Instead, they declared the USSR defeated, and its people had to kneel down, sprinkle ashes on their heads and together begin to lick the West in the ass, as the Germans and the Japanese once did. But the Russians, with the exception of Vlasovites and compradors, did not want to do this, if only because they were not defeated, they were simply betrayed. The Americans did not understand that even then, Russia was the only country in the world capable of destroying the United States, although at the cost of its own life. But god with them, it is their mistake, for which they will have to pay dearly. And in the most direct, and not figuratively, gold and banknotes. Since they didn’t have enough sense then to get an alliance and friendship with Russia by kindness and affection, they would have to try to buy it, but not the fact that we are stormy.
- thirdly, our countries still have quite different size, scale and volume of muscles
But we have much more in common with Canada and Australia:
- first, we have huge and underdeveloped territories, with huge resources
- secondly, relatively numerous, but rare in terms of the size of the territory and the population very unevenly distributed throughout the territory
- thirdly, the harsh climate and it does not matter that in Canada and Russia to-50, and in Australia to + 50, raw materials have to be used on a rotational basis, there are few people who want to live in these conditions
- in the fourth, a huge export of raw materials and semi-finished products
- in the fifth, these countries give us a worthy, and most importantly, useful and adequate example of the effective development of a raw materials economy. These examples are fundamentally different from the useless examples from the development of countries with completely different natural, climatic, demographic, economic, mental and other conditions that are replicated and imposed by Gaidarast.
- in the sixth, a similar type of mentality. We are Asians, but with European multi-ethnic roots, they are also not local, but the roots are also European and by no means mono-ethnic. The mental type is also very important. I, for example, deliberately excluded South Africa from the example to follow (they also made a good profit of that war) only because of the mentality of its population, which is unique in its turretlessness.
But for the rest, we need to pull ourselves up strongly and above all in matters of import substitution and the termination of unjustified export of capital abroad, which by the way is quite connected. Moreover, our country has actually, albeit intuitively, already embarked on this path of implementing the Canadian-Australian model of sustainable development.
A lot has already been done on import substitution. Development programs have been successfully implemented and the import of poultry meat, eggs, bread products, pipes, metal-roll, nuclear and power engineering products, and helicopters has almost ceased, and these industries are exported. Programs are being implemented and the share of imports of cars, electronics, household appliances, pork meat, metal products 3 and 4 redistribution, some types of equipment is rapidly decreasing. More needs to be done. Every year, huge amounts of money are exported abroad to pay for imports of metallurgical, mining, engineering, agricultural, food processing equipment, beef, ships and airplanes, clothing and footwear. In these areas, the share of domestic producers is undeservedly small. These import substitution programs are under development or only at the beginning of implementation.
In this case, following the example of our counterpart, you should not go too far. They do not force the production and export of finished products. They, for example, have several places where deposits of iron ore and coking coal are located nearby. It would seem that God himself ordered to build a metallurgical plant there and take out the finished products. But they prefer to export coal and iron ore concentrate, and let the metal from these concentrates be produced in China, Korea, and Japan. There are several reasons for this.
- at current prices from the extraction and enrichment of raw materials, a good and stable income
- with the development of production for more advanced processing of raw materials for export, along with value added, there remains “smoke and dirt” in the country and many other undesirable environmental problems that require high costs for waste disposal and emissions
- relatively small population in these countries. If in the mining industry there is a relatively high labor productivity, which does not require large imports of labor, then with the excessive development of the manufacturing industry for export, large imports of labor from Asia are required, which introduces many undesirable demographic problems.
So in these questions there is something to learn from them. Therefore, attention should be focused primarily on import substitution, and not on the production of finished products for export.
A separate topic is the export of capital abroad. Here the horse did not roll. The massive and unpunished flight of disgraced oligarchs with fantastic, stolen capital abroad simply enrages the public consciousness, regardless of the level of education and life. The people simply crave punishment for renegades, the power is inactive. The opposition, in terms of theft, is even worse than power. Yes, and with our people is not all clear, this is not the lamb of God. As Count Arakcheev used to say, the main occupation of Russian subjects is that they steal, and at least half of their subjects, from young to old, from poor people to oligarchs, are being stolen. It would be half the trouble if they were spending their stolen goods in Russia, building houses, summer cottages, factories, buying things, going to sanatoriums, to the Black Sea coast and spending money there. But no. He also stole a little over the hill, the poor man was a tourist, the middle peasant was trying to buy a house somewhere in Macedonia, an oligarch factory somewhere in Britain. Take out billions of dollars. And all for nothing, throw everywhere. The Turks will poison the poor man with whiskey or turned upside down with a bus, at the middle peasant the Albanians requisition a house in Macedonia under a specious pretext, the Chinese will ruin the oligarch's factory. It remains one zilch, neither myself nor the country nor the people. Such is the main Russian misfortune, it is more serious than fools and roads, and especially import substitution. But with this, I'm sure something can be done.
There are worthy examples, they should be studied and adopted. As the saying goes: the goals are clear, the tasks are defined, for the work of comrades!
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