It is Kokang and Changchun

　Whether it's now or in the past, this is a fairy-tale phenomenon, a dreamlike beginning. You should see, compared to when I was young, this is such a good starting point for the revolution.

　General Secretary Xi Jinping once said that the world is facing major changes unseen in a century. China's rise and the recent restoration of the Soviet Union are the best proof of this.

　As a major world power, Britain cannot remain aloof and unaffected by the changing situation. These are all factors conducive to revolution.”

　Ke Makai expressed his approval and praise for his mother's education, and then added on behalf of his mother:

　“Comrade Chongqing, the revolutionary opportunities of any country are closely related to the international environment. Especially for small countries, the influence of international factors on domestic factors is more obvious.

　The climax of the international communist movement was always accompanied by the emergence of war, which is the highest form of political struggle. It only occurs when the bourgeoisie of various countries dares to tear off their faces externally and remove the veil of hypocrisy internally.

　When the contradictions between the ruling class and the ruled class are irreconcilable and the state apparatus has exhausted all possible means to bring about reform but is unable to do so, a revolution is likely to break out in society.

　This year's Russia-Ukraine conflict has already created the possibility of a new revolution. The beginning and end of the war will inevitably lead to new confrontations. These new confrontations will cause new changes in the domestic politics of individual countries and in the global landscape.

　Now, the United States does not want to see a Europe in disarray, and even less does it want to see the Soviet Union return to the world. It will inevitably join forces with the United Kingdom to intensify its efforts to sow discord between EU countries and Russia and Europe.

　Elizabeth Crook continued, "This complex situation is on the eve of social change. Comrade Chongqing, these are obvious developments. Regardless, Communists should not easily express sadness or disappointment, but always adhere to the two necessities. Come on!"

　……

　One word from you is worth ten years of reading. This meeting with fellow villagers has brought Chongqing a lot of benefits.

　Although Chongqing considered this issue during the break from disaster relief efforts during the Sichuan earthquake, the issue has never been fully resolved, and the city is constantly fluctuating between hope and disappointment.

　This time, Chongqing, with the earnest guidance of the old predecessors, began to regain its confidence and vowed not to give up until Great Britain was dyed with socialist red.

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　[The following is popular science from three international friends]

　David Crook (1910-2000), born in London, England, was a pioneer in English teaching in New China. He participated in the International Brigade and devoted himself to the anti-fascist struggle.

　Isabel Crook (1915-present), wife of David Crook, is a Canadian, an international friend, an international communist fighter, an educator, a pioneer in the field of English teaching in New China, and she has conducted in-depth investigations and research in rural western China.

　Michael Crook, the second son of David and Elizabeth Crook, was born and raised in Beijing in 1951. His parents, both members of the British Communist Party, came to China during the Anti-Japanese War and dedicated their lives to working there. In the 1990s, as China expanded its opening up to the outside world, an increasing number of foreigners came to live and work in China. In 1994, Michael and his friends founded the Jingxi School, which enrolled children of foreign nationals.

　Chapter 213: Stabilizing Internal Affairs and Liberating the White Areas (6)

　The informatization of the Russian army has always been a big problem, which is why the Russian army has been stuck in the quagmire of the Russia-Ukraine battlefield for five months.

　Russia is now divided into two halves, the Red and the White, which are at war with each other. In a sense, in terms of information technology, the two are just weaklings fighting each other.

　KanColle has an ability, which is that when a certain device is installed on her body, she can make this device perform at a performance that exceeds the device's maximum paper data.

　Take the Changchun radar system, for example. Until its decommissioning, the Changchun was equipped with the Giuis-2 radar, a Soviet-developed version of the British 291 radar from World War II. This radar has a maximum search range of 20km for surface targets and 80km for air targets.

　Later, after Changchun became a ship girl, she was taken for testing by the Navy and China Shipbuilding Corporation. The test found that the maximum performance of the Giuis-2 radar was twice that recorded in the radar data - the maximum search range for sea was 40km and for air was 160km.

　Later, the research team of the ship girl dismantled the original radar of Changchun for shore-based testing and found that it was far from the level of the radar tested on Changchun.

　Performance.

　Just think about it, how terrifying is it to buff the radar of a World War II small boat to this extent?

　Each country that owns a KanColle has conducted similar tests and has found that the equipment has varying degrees of bonuses on the KanColle, ranging from a few percent to over 100 percent. (In a sense, this is like a lucky draw game?)

　Therefore, in the late summer of 21, Putin, who was worried about the information construction of the Russian army, caught his attention when he was looking through naval data.

　This ship is the Sverdlov-class/Type 68 cruiser, the Zhdanov command cruiser.

　The reason why it is called a command cruiser is that in the 60s, as the fleet expanded, it was necessary to enhance communication and command capabilities, and the Soviet Navy selected two light cruisers for transformation into command ships.

　为此日丹诺夫号加装了65根天线、17座强大的无线电发射器、57个信号接收器、9个高频无线电设备和3座无线电中继器。

　The modified Zhdanov's communication equipment can send and receive more than 60 radio channels simultaneously, and can send and receive almost all types of signals, including telephone and telegraph, optical signals, ultra-high-speed communications and satellite communications.

　The effective communication radius reaches 8000 kilometers, which can be extended to 12000 kilometers through repeaters.

　At that time, Putin keenly realized that if this ship was reproduced as a ship girl, it would undoubtedly be a huge boost to the informationization of the Russian army.

　But... due to the previous large-scale construction plan, Russia's current naval shipyards are all full. What should it do?

　Then Putin thought of a big country in the southeast.

　Finally, after lengthy negotiations, China accepted Russia's request to build a replica of the Zhdanov. The price was that Russia would take out an equivalent amount of gold from its gold reserves to cover all costs incurred by China in building the Zhdanov.

　Putin used up his gold reserves to finance a ship, which shows how much he values ​​this. Of course, Russia has more gold reserves than the US, and gold is more attractive to the US than paper money, which is also the reason for the deal.

　(Rabbit: Wouldn’t it be foolish not to make money? What’s more, the Russians didn’t pay with paper money, but with gold, real gold!)

　After the outbreak of the Russo-Ukrainian war, Russia became more aware than ever of the power of informatization. As a result, Russia, which suffered heavy losses on the front line, urged China to deliver goods from time to time.

　However, by the time the Zhdanov is completed, it will be late October 2022.

　After the Zhdanov was completed, Changchun represented the Four Heavenly Kings and went to the Dalian Shipyard to welcome this young light cruiser.

　Changchun showed Zhdanov deep concern and regards, but she often called out "Things!" to him and liked to sing "The Glorious Guide" in front of her, which made Zhdanov confused.

　"Comrade Kogan, what does 'thing!' mean? I see you shouting it at me from time to time, and you seem to like the song 'Glorious Guide' very much." Zhdanov asked in confusion.

　Changchun didn't explain it directly, but instead told Zhdanov mysteriously, "Well, it means that even though we have something that science can't explain, we still adhere to materialism."

　Zhdanov scratched his head, doubtful.

　Not only that, Zhdanov also found that the comment section of her entry in the rWiki encyclopedia was full of comments like "Things!", which made her even more confused.

　After Zhdanov became a ship girl, the Soviet Union and the Russian Federation fought for the ownership of Zhdanov. Although China wanted to give Zhdanov to the Soviet Union in its heart, in order to better slap the faces of Western countries, China adopted this method.

　China told the Russians: "According to Western practice, everything should be based on the principle of voluntariness, which is what we call respecting human rights. So if you want Zhdanov, you should follow his wishes..."

　When China said this, the oligarchs in the Russian Federation were so angry that their eyes widened. This tactic of giving someone a taste of their own medicine was truly cruel.

　How could the Zhdanov, a Soviet-era ship, agree to be annexed to the Russian Federation? The Soviet Union naturally acquired the Zhdanov.

　After Zhdanov returned to the Soviet Union, he underwent relevant tests. The results astonished everyone present. Zhdanov's information transmission, reception, and processing capabilities were surprisingly powerful, meeting the requirements of an early information-based command center (the level of the US military in the first few years of the 21st century).

　Moreover, tests on the European-aided electronic warfare pods seized from Ukraine have shown that the information signals sent and received by Zhdanov are very resistant to electronic interference.

　To put it in a more vivid way, even if the captured European-supplied electronic warfare pod was fully powered, it could only reduce the 720p video quality transmitted by Zhdanov to 480P.

　(PS: The ship's communication anti-interference ability is already strong, and Zhdanov, as a command cruiser with extremely powerful communication information, is even stronger.)

　Military researchers speculate that if the communication and information equipment on Zhdanov were replaced with equipment from the past decade, its performance would be only slightly inferior to the current information level of the US military command center.

　When Putin heard the news, he was so happy that he said the 20 tons of element 79 were not wasted.

　The construction of informationized troops is a systematic process, not something that can be accomplished by suddenly having a command center drop from the sky.

　It still means that the Soviet Red Army will have a very obvious information advantage over the White Army in southern Russia.

　Starting from November, a large amount of important intelligence communications and other information began to be sent and received through Zhdanov rather than the original Russian command center.

　And also starting from November, as the Ministry of Defense and the General Staff were completely replaced by the generals of the Sulovkin faction, the Aerospace Force began to exert its full strength and cooperate more closely with the ground forces.

　Coupled with the tactical coordination of light and heavy cruisers defending the front line, destroyers conducting tactical infiltration and guerrilla warfare, and the information advantages brought by Zhdanov, the Red Army repelled the White Army's final major offensive on the Trans-Siberian Railway, preserving this lifeline connecting with the Far East and Eastern countries.

　After the Battle of the Siberian Railway, the situation on the battlefield reversed and the White Army's decline gradually became apparent. Although the Red Army had a numerical disadvantage in the army, it still demonstrated considerable combat effectiveness by relying on its information advantage.

　When the spies secretly sent by the United States saw the situation on the battlefield, their jaws almost dropped. How come the Red Army became so powerful just like the Ukrainian army that was given information support?

　Later, the United States learned through CIA intelligence personnel about the Russians' recent good fortune - Zhdanov's powerful information capabilities. They felt like they were in a state of confusion and their faces were twisted.

　Then, the unwilling United States finally got a sum of money from Congress to conduct experiments on its ship girls. It installed various modern information equipment on its own ship girls and then took them for testing.

　The American soldiers' eyes lit up as they prayed for a miracle to happen.

　Unfortunately, God does not seem to be fond of Christianity, but prefers Eastern Orthodoxy - the test results show that there is no heaven-defying bonus like Zhdanov.

　Because the U.S. military failed to produce decent results, Congress thought the military was deliberately cheating it out of money, which made Congress tighten its purse strings again, and the U.S. large-scale construction plan was further frustrated.

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　Regarding the application of the Anshan-class sisters to go to the Soviet Union to support the revolution, Anshan has always argued the necessity of going to the Soviet Union to support the revolution and proposed a series of minefield operations.

　They applied without stopping for a moment, and the four little ones' resolute attitude caused the matter to be brought to the attention of the Central Military Commission.

　Later, after discussion, the Military Commission communicated and consulted with the Soviet side, and finally decided to provide aid to the Soviet Union in a secret form.

　In other words, only one volunteer ship girl can be sent, and the main body cannot be brought to the Soviet Union, only the humanoid can go. In addition, during the operation, the Soviet Union is required to keep the identity of the volunteer ship girl confidential.

　The next question was who to send. The calm and steady Anshan was undoubtedly the most suitable. But if Anshan left, the mischievous Fushun would be overjoyed. Furthermore, Anshan had just attended the 20th National Congress and needed a break.

　Fushun is not considered due to its character.

　Then the only options left are Changchun and Taiyuan. If Taiyuan is chosen, Changchun will feel extremely distressed about her. If Taiyuan wants to go, Changchun will definitely clamor to go with him. She doesn't feel comfortable with Taiyuan going to the battlefield alone.

　Then it seems that among the four great cities, Changchun is the most suitable place to go.

　So, one night, Changchun wore the Russian-patterned navy camouflage uniform that the comrades from the National Security Bureau had specially obtained for her, and her head, face and hands were wrapped tightly in various Russian tactical equipment.

　In order to pay attention to details, the comrades from the National Security Bureau also gave Changchun a standard modern Russian book, asking her to correct her Far Eastern accent and some vocabulary and grammar from decades ago.

　"Then do I need to change to a more mature voice? How about using Captain Qin's voice?"

　Changchun talked to himself, and then recalled the time when his "real father" Lin Su taught him the dubbing skills.

　Changchun was secretly escorted by the National Security Bureau to an airport in Xinjiang, and then boarded a first-generation Mi-8 helicopter that had been retired for many years but was still well-maintained and was pulled out of the warehouse, and flew to a military airport on the Sino-Russian border in the Tianshan Mountains.

　Then, with the support and escort of the KGB, they traveled along the Trans-Siberian Railway to western Russia to support the war.

　Chapter 214: A Long-lost Japanese Perspective

　[PS: I think it’s been over three months since I last wrote about Japan? Time flies…]

　Japan, which has gotten rid of the US military presence, has suffered crazy economic retaliation from the United States in the past few months.

　The United States has tried its best and has replicated all the economic sanctions it can against Russia on Japan.

　This has further dented Japan's already sluggish economy; the record low exchange rate of the yen against the dollar is the most obvious manifestation of this.

　Almost all major financial institutions around the world have received an alert: the exchange rate of the Japanese yen against the US dollar has fallen below the 200 mark.

　(In reality, it fell below 150. In the novel, the yen fell even more sharply due to the strong sanctions imposed by the United States.)

　In layman's terms, you have to spend 200 yen to exchange for 1 US dollar. What's more terrifying is that there is still little sign of easing even at this level.

　So what does it mean that the exchange rate has deteriorated to such an extent? What is the Japanese economic environment experiencing at this moment?

　Don’t be impatient, let me tell you slowly.

　Before 2022, the exchange rate of Japan against the US dollar remained relatively stable, with no major fluctuations.

　Since the beginning of 2022, the Japanese yen has been like diarrhea, completely soaring and constantly refreshing the bottom line of depreciation.

　Since the beginning of this year, driven by the United States, the world has been raising interest rates to varying degrees. However, Japan has not only not raised interest rates, but has even

　In interest rate cuts.

　Japan has done everything it can to devalue its currency.

　This is not the end yet. Even though the exchange rate fell below 200, the Bank of Japan remained unmoved today and did not delay in releasing the necessary liquidity.

　Ayanami was so overwhelmed by the economic situation that she didn't even have the heart to play games. She was particularly puzzled by the government's behavior. Logically speaking, in this situation, any government that wasn't brainless would have found ways to stabilize the exchange rate and curb depreciation. Why did the central bank act like it was giving up?

　So Ayanami went to consult Hibiki and asked, "Hibiki-chan, it's true that the Japanese government is a bourgeois government, but I don't think that means they are stupid.

　Why are they all giving up now? They're watching the yen continue to depreciate, doing nothing, and even pushing it further?

　Xiang didn't speak immediately, but opened the last bottle of sake, which she bought before the yen depreciated.

　He took a sip from the bottle before answering, "Actually, the Japanese government hasn't been indifferent. They've been rescuing the market. It's just that the logic and actions behind that rescue are... hard to explain."

　"But, all the operations Japan is doing are to promote depreciation. How can it be considered as rescuing the market? I don't understand what the government is doing." Ayanami was a little anxious.

　Xiang spread his hands, full of contempt for the Japanese government, and said: "Don't understand? That's right, because Japan is now actively sacrificing the exchange rate in exchange for maintaining the vitality of its domestic economy."

　"Sacrificing the exchange rate to boost the economy?" Ayanami was puzzled. "Isn't this just like putting ourselves on the chopping block for the American bullies? Waiting for them to carve us up and make salmon sashimi?"

　Hibiki: "For the Japanese bourgeois government, this is secondary; the most important thing is to stimulate consumption. To stimulate consumption, they even came up with things like negative interest rates.

　Since 16, the domestic benchmark interest rate has been adjusted to -0.1%; what does a negative interest rate mean?

　This means that if I deposit money in the bank, the money will decrease. But if I borrow money from the bank, the money will increase. Sounds outrageous, right?

　But think about it, Ayanami-chan, when your money earns no interest in the bank and no returns in the financial market, what do you do? You have no choice but to spend it. Do you understand?

　This is the underlying logic of the Japanese economy at this moment; exchange rates, finance, government bonds, and so on are all external things; as long as it can stimulate investment and consumption, the goal has been achieved.

　After listening to Xiang's explanation, Ayanami suddenly realized and cursed secretly: "In order to get money from the people, these carnivores will do anything to achieve their goals..."

　"That's fine, but there's more serious stuff to come." Xiang said grumpily, "Now, any financial institution around the world that holds Japanese yen will first choose to exchange it for other stable currencies.

　Whether it's US dollars or RMB, no one would choose to jump into the fire pit with Japan. And such an operation would in turn accelerate the decline of the yen...it becomes a vicious cycle."