Chapter 197:
Chapter 197
Hahaha! This is the place!
I decided to take the Politburo members with me for a field trip to the outskirts of Moscow.
This area, which was almost the size of a city, was a huge construction site that symbolized the future of the Soviet Union.
As I took a deep breath, the fresh smell of soil filled my chest and I burst into a hearty laugh.
Ahh! The future! This is the future of our motherland. Look! Take it all in! And tell the story someday. I have seen the future of our country!
Moscow was an old city.
It had been a capital for centuries since the Moscow Grand Duchy expanded and swallowed up most of the European Russia after the Mongol invasion.
It was also underdeveloped, and it was hard to build new things because there were many historical buildings in the city.
Stalin had even demolished some of the valuable historical buildings, such as the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, to undermine the authority of the Orthodox Church.
There was a high demand for new buildings, but there was not enough space for them.
But now, with the development of a new city in the southwest of Moscow, that would be a thing of the past.
Unlike the old towns known as the Golden Ring in the northeast of Moscow or the old Moscow city center, this place was a planned city that was designed with the possibility of further expansion in mind.
The core of the new city, which was designed with the most Soviet values, was this place, the <World Proletariat University>, which was still a shabby building site.
As soon as the supreme leader showed up unexpectedly, all the officers on the construction site ran out to greet me.
Comrade Secretary General! What brings you here?
Oh, I came to see the future!
The future?
Right here! This place that you are building is the future of the Soviet Union!
It was just early evening, but there was not a single window in the building that was dark.
Hundreds, thousands of students were probably studying, researching, and finding the future inside.
Shh, be quiet. Dont disturb the students studies.
Yes, yes! We understand.
The Soviet Union had been planning this project since before the war and had prepared to accept thousands of foreign students.
We expanded the Moscow University and created a language institute for foreign students, and we offered a one-year language course for students who were not familiar with Russian.
Almost all of them were children of poor farmers or factory workers in their home countries, and they clung to the opportunity of education more passionately than anyone else.
At the <World Proletariat University>, these students who had completed the basic training course were assigned majors and studied.
When they returned to their home countries, mostly from Asia, Africa, and Latin America, they would become the elite who had received higher education and would take charge of the development of their countries.
As I walked in, I saw dozens of newly built khrushchyovkas.
Is this the dormitory?
Yes! We built the khrushchyovkas here as a priority for the convenience of the students. There are 12 rooms on each floor, and we grouped a few buildings according to gender and department.
Hahaha, good! Very good!
Some students were walking around stretching their legs and looked surprised when they saw us.
Among them, there were quite a few black and Asian people.
This massive building was planned to be the main building of the World Proletariat University, as well as the medical school building and the university hospital.
As soon as it was completed, a direct subway line connecting it to the old Moscow city center would be opened, and patients from Moscow and the whole Soviet Union would be able to come here.
But why did you decide to build such a large medical school, Comrade Secretary General?
Yes. The capacity up to 30,000? This size would probably be the largest single university in the world!
It has to be that big. It has to be.
I couldnt help but smile with satisfaction as I looked at it.
A capacity of 30,000 was equivalent to the total capacity of a large comprehensive university in modern Korea.
And yet, it had to be that big, I thought.
In the actual history, Cuba established the Latin American School of Medicine (ELAM) and operated it with a capacity of nearly 20,000.
If a small country like Cuba could do that, why couldnt our Soviet Union do more? Anyway, the Secretary General could do whatever he wanted.
This huge building alone would be a university hospital, and some of the officers seemed to be shocked by that.
Hahaha this way, there will be no one who cant get treatment.
Thats right! Thats it! You nailed it!
This was also a propaganda for the Soviet system. Our country provided free treatment to people in this huge and magnificent hospital!
Also, it was necessary for humanitarian aid to the third world.
There was no need for this hospital to operate only for Soviet patients. It would be a system propaganda for the patients of rare diseases from the third world to come to the Soviet Union and get treatment and go back alive.
There were four categories of good suppliers for revolutionaries. Students, teachers, lawyers, and doctors.
They had the intellectual ability to understand social contradictions by receiving higher education, and they faced the scene of those social contradictions every day.
How could they not devote themselves to the revolution? Che Guevara, Salvador Allende, Lu Xun, Norman Bethune were the living witnesses.
The ones who learned medicine at the medical school of the World Proletariat University and returned to their home countries would be the red bombs that fell on the anti-feudal and anti-capitalist society of the colonies.
The students who entered the medical school wrote a longer pledge than the other students.
[I pledge to use what I learned at this school for the poorest and most marginalized people in my country for three years]
It was not just service for the people of the motherland. Work for the poorest and most marginalized people. We will pay you as much as you want!
We can pay you as much as you want. The US is providing aid, so how hard can it be? The key is, how can we reach their hearts?
The US would probably follow a similar way to the actual history.
Covering the country with an overwhelming money bomb.
Of course, here, the Soviet Union sucked up a lot of money for the overseas aid as a price for handing over the nuclear weapons, so it wouldnt be as crazy as the actual history
But on the other hand, this method also caused a lot of backlash.
The Americans ran amok in many places in the world, not just in Korea, and the US became a grateful country and a vulgar people who only know money at the same time.
We decided to adopt a slightly different route. We built hospitals and schools in the poorest areas, placed foreign students from the countries, and fed and taught the poor students for free and made them intellectuals.
This was our strategy.
I never thought the students would look so lovely
The sight of the students studying hard all night with the lights on was beautiful beyond words.
Someday, this place would be the heart of the advancing world revolution.
Even among the desolate construction sites, my eyes were already looking at the campus bustling with people.
