Chapter 744

National Day activities in Australasia have become increasingly low-key, and grand military parades are rarely held unless there are major events.

After all, the country's strength has been established by previous wars. With Australasia's current status, there is no need to use some military parades to strengthen its prestige and status.

As time entered 1930, there were still some points worthy of attention in the government's annual report meeting.

The first is the population that Arthur attaches great importance to, which has a breakthrough expansion to more than 37.55 million people.

Australasia is currently unique among countries whose population has grown significantly despite the economic crisis.

On the economic front, Australasia's gross national product reached a record high of A$6.7 billion last year, and annual fiscal revenue also reached a new high of A$7.5 billion.

However, the main reason for this is the depreciation of the Australian dollar. Although it seems that the size of the economy has grown a lot, the actual changes are not as big as imagined.

Current currency exchange rate: 1 pound = 2 Australian dollars = 24 US dollars (Great Lakes region) = 147 rupees = 244 francs = 135,555 marks (estimated value)

It is worth mentioning that the currencies of the United States occupied by Britain, France and Australia have gradually been transformed into the corresponding pounds, francs and Australian dollars.

However, the US dollar is still popular in the Great Lakes region, but it has also entered a considerable stage of depreciation.

In the reparations that are about to be paid by the Federal Republic of the Great Lakes, various countries have stated that they will not agree to payment in US dollars, and will use industrial products, food, mineral resources and other materials with more stable economic value, as well as more valuable gold to repay.

It can also be seen from the currency exchange ratio that the only relatively strong currencies currently are the pound sterling, the Australian dollar and the franc, and the depreciation of other currencies is quite severe.

Because it is highly tied to the pound sterling, coupled with Australasia's own sphere of influence, the Australian dollar has become one of the most popular world currencies.

In order to prevent the influence of the British pound from becoming higher, some countries will also switch to using the Australian dollar for settlement instead of the British pound, which is not much different from the Australian dollar.

This can also illustrate a problem. Under the premise that the British are becoming more and more powerful, Australasia has involuntarily come to oppose the British.

Unless Arthur is willing to give up everything and be willing to be the younger brother of the British. Otherwise, this general trend is simply unavoidable, and it also means that the relationship between Britain and Australasia cannot return to its former state.

Before the National Day in 1930 arrived, a piece of news instantly attracted Arthur's attention, and even the attention of the world.

Europe has ushered in another war.

Yes, after many years, war broke out again in Tsarist Russia under Nicholas II.

Several years have passed since the last civil war, and Tsarist Russia under Nicholas II still breathed a sigh of relief.

However, the arrival of the economic crisis has caused major changes in the situation in Russia.

Because the current Tsarist Russia is an autocratic government that was born after restructuring the original capitalist government, the economic crisis still has a great impact on such Tsarist Russia.

However, Nicholas II's enemies were not affected much by the economic crisis, which also made the situation in Russia unbalanced.

Even the other side not only was not affected by the economic crisis, but developed part of its industry and infrastructure during the economic crisis, and re-expanded its army to 500,000 people.

As for Tsarist Russia, due to a very serious economic crisis, the army has been reduced to 600,000 men by Nicholas II.

Although the size of the army is still larger than that of the other side, Tsarist Russia's territory is several times that of the other side, and its population is much larger than that of the other side.

More importantly, Tsarist Russia, like the United States before it and Germany now, is plagued by an economic crisis. There are countless unemployed people, and many people are on the verge of starving to death.

The situation is different in other areas. Although the resources on the other side are not too many, the centralized rationing system allows most people to have a bite to eat without starving to death.

When comparing the two, the other side of Russia can obviously bring people hope, which also makes the other Russia more prosperous.

It is worth mentioning that there were many Russian capitalists in Tsarist Russia. The deprivation of the Russian people by these capitalists during the economic crisis was also the reason why Tsarist Russia weakened and the Tsarist Russian people were very dissatisfied with the government.

The accumulation of various contradictions made the tsarist government's rule unstable, and Nicholas II was also trying to strengthen his armed forces as much as possible.

In the context of the confrontation between the two forces in Russia, there are actually forces from countries including Britain, France, and Australia.

The British are currently the dominant force, and France definitely wants Russia to regain its strength and help it resist the British.

But the British definitely don't want Russia to stand up again. After all, a complete and powerful Russia can pose a considerable threat to Britain in Central Asia and the Far East.

It is unknown whether the British had any enemies supporting Nicholas II. But the speed at which Russia emerged from the economic crisis is indeed exaggerated, and it would have been absolutely impossible without state support.

How exaggerated is his industry?

Throughout 1929, Australasia's annual steel production was close to 13 million tons, including 50,000 tons of steel and 70,000 tons of pig iron.

Such data is already good. Looking at the entire world, it can definitely be said to be a giant in steel production and a proper industrial power.

Another Russia, on the other hand, increased its steel production to 5 million tons in just a few years, of which steel production has exceeded 2 million tons, and its industrial level has exceeded Tsarist Russia's steel production of 4 million tons.

What is the level of Russia's annual steel output of 2 million tons? Compared with other important countries in the world, Russia's steel output has surpassed the island countries and Italy, ranking sixth in the world.

In such a comparison, the improvement of another Russian industry is still very exaggerated. More importantly, due to the large-scale expansion of industry, the other Russia has almost no unemployed people. People are working hard at their jobs and working hard for the future of the country.

Moreover, almost all Russian industries are relatively scarce in the country, so there is no need to worry about market issues.

The steel and other industrial products they built will be transported across the country and consumed in this large-scale construction.

Because of this, compared with Tsarist Russia, the economy and industry of the other Russia are healthier, as if the old and the new are replacing each other.

The war was started by another Russian side.

For Nicholas II and Tsarist Russia, they are definitely not willing to start another war and add fuel to their fragile economy.

However, the two countries have huge differences in their political philosophies, and they are split from the same country. It is simply impossible not to break out conflicts.

The cause of the incident was that some political parties from another Russia went to Tsarist Russia to attract rural people to join the party, and secretly organized them to go to another Russia.

Another Russia that could arrange work and distribute food soon aroused the yearning of a large number of Russian rural people.

After all, if they stay in Tsarist Russia, the government will not provide them with any relief, and they can only fend for themselves.

But this approach of another Russia soon attracted the attention of Tsarist Russia. The famine and chaos caused by the economic crisis resulted in the deaths of millions of Russians.

After subtracting another Russia, the population of Tsarist Russia was less than 100 million people, about 87 million to be precise.

The population of the other Russia is constantly increasing. Currently, the population of the other Russia is close to 30 million, and it is still attracting people from Russia.

The continuous loss of population naturally hurts the Russian capitalists. After all, it is these civilians they rely on during the economic crisis. If there is no continuous labor of civilians to create wealth and resources, where will capitalists like them get enough supplies?

You know, after people go to another Russia, they will hate capitalism extremely, in other words, they will become enemies of capital.

This is what Russian capitalists do not want to see, and naturally it encourages the Russian government to prevent another Russia from winning over the people.

Civil war had already broken out in the two countries, and naturally it was impossible to be amicable during the process of preventing it.

Conflicts will naturally break out during this process, and there will definitely be some conflicts that escalate into chaos and eventually evolve into small-scale fighting.

As soon as the gunshots are fired, it is naturally impossible for both sides to give in first. After all, this is about the country's reputation, and also about which of the two Russias takes the initiative first.

On January 7, 1930, Tsarist Russia ushered in war again.

What started as a conflict between the border troops of the two countries quickly evolved into a large-scale war.

The other Russia seemed to have been prepared for a long time, and its army headed to the Polish front in a mighty manner, trying to cut off the connection between Tsarist Russia and the Ukrainian region.

This has to talk about the previous intervention war. After the intervention war ended, the Black Sea coast was originally in the hands of the intervention forces.

But due to the economic crisis, Ukraine was eventually returned to Tsarist Russia at the cost of some resources and minerals.

Ukraine was still very important to Tsarist Russia. First of all, Ukraine is also a very important outlet to the sea. Secondly, the Ukrainian region can block another Russia, making the other Russia's external communication routes further distant.

But the problem is that there is only a connecting strip hundreds of kilometers long between Tsarist Russia and Ukraine.

This connecting zone is only a few dozen kilometers at its narrowest point and only a few hundred kilometers at its widest point. It is also long and narrow, like the throat of Tsarist Russia.

If cut off quickly at the narrowest point, the Ukrainian region would lose its connection with Tsarist Russia and become like an enclave hundreds of kilometers away.

This also exposed another Russian intention, which was to quickly capture the Black Sea coast, obtain a very reliable outlet to the sea, and limit Nicholas II's rule to the north.

Of course, this is just the first step of Russia's current strategy. If it can be unified, another Russian goal must be to establish a Russian Empire with a republican democratic system.

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