Extreme Cold Era: Shelter Don't Keep Waste-Chapter 738 - 691

The emergency meeting of the cabinet quickly reached a resolution, demanding an investigation into the impeachment of Perfikot by parliament members, with accusations of national division and treason.

The moment the resolution was announced, there was immediate protest claiming it was dictatorship and authoritarianism, a desecration of democracy and freedom, and demanding the national assembly to veto the cabinet’s reckless decision.

However, the resolution was passed by the national assembly, with over a third of the members abstaining from the vote, yet it still received the majority vote.

Thus, the cabinet’s resolution was executed.

The involved parliament members were taken away from the national assembly building on the spot and will face investigation by Victory national intelligence agencies.

The police also conducted direct searches at their residences, seizing a large amount of materials and documents that will serve as evidence.

As for Perfikot herself, upon learning of the matter, she simply smiled it off.

"If you need, these members could drop dead in prison by tonight." Ezio, the leader of the Assassin Brotherhood, appeared before Perfikot after a long absence, immediately suggesting to eliminate certain individuals.

Yet Perfikot only lightly laughed and shook her head, saying: "It’s pointless, these people just fail to see the reality, there’s no need to kill them."

Perfikot then mischievously looked at Ezio in front of her, joking with him: "If I didn’t know better, I’d think these people were fostered by you!"

Hearing Perfikot say this, Ezio shook his head seriously and replied: "They are not related to us."

Obviously, Ezio did not want Perfikot to think the matter was related to them.

"If it was 20 years ago, perhaps there would have been such naive people among the Brotherhood." Perhaps recalling something, Ezio sighed helplessly: "Back then, we all harbored ideals, believing that a free revolution like in France was the future for the nation, was the future for the people!

However, reality tells us that things don’t always go the way we imagine.

Your emergence, especially, proves to us that strongman politics is often the key factor in ensuring national stability."

"What you’re saying is utilitarianism, strongman politics can indeed ensure stability, but the premise is that the ruler is not a corrupt person obsessed with lust, nor a leader who prioritizes personal interests over national interest." Perfikot refuted Ezio’s statement.

The original world has more cases; during the Cold War, many strongman politics cases emerged worldwide under turbulent circumstances, among which naturally some can be viewed as examples and others can be considered ’examples’ too.

Strongman politics indeed, as Ezio said, can in certain periods ensure a nation’s stability, but doing so often accumulates public grievances.

Even if people’s lives indeed improved, material life became rich, and the nation made noteworthy progress.

But human hearts are often hard to satisfy, especially when people have enough to eat, they start demanding more.

When starving, the only thought in everyone’s mind is to eat; once they are full, they start wanting better clothes, higher wages, bigger houses, more political expression...

To summarize a sentence Perfikot saw in the original world, it describes the contradiction between people’s growing needs and the existing social system.

"For a nation, what’s truly needed is not unchangeability nor a ruler who suppresses everything with an iron fist." Combining her experiences from recent years and numerous original world cases as references, Perfikot has a rather clear understanding of all this: "What the nation and people need is a system that constantly leads the entire nation in progress and development.

This system should ensure that the entire country’s leaders do not persistently remain inactive, can maintain the nation’s development consistently, rapidly, and stably.

More precisely, it should allow citizens to gain spiritual satisfaction, allowing them to endure temporary or long-term material dissatisfaction for that purpose."

The most quintessential example here is one of the former two global extremes; the most criticized aspect of the red regime back then, and condemned later, was the immense disparity between its light and heavy industries, and the low quality of meeting civilians’ life needs.

They distributed free housing to citizens, even though it was Khrushchev-style buildings, which were neither aesthetically pleasing nor comfortable, pigeonhole-like.

As for other light industrial goods, they focused only on whether they existed, not on quality.

But undeniably, besides the years right after its establishment and right before its dissolution, the red regime thoroughly met its citizens’ life needs, even lavishly.

The renowned kitchen debate was its most direct manifestation.

"For example, what you did in the Northern Territory?" Ezio looked at Perfikot, thinking she herself might be the most direct manifestation of her theory.

"If you mean the cheap food, houses, and clothes, you could think that way." Perfikot didn’t hide her thoughts in that regard, instead, she candidly admitted: "Many matters require us to first solve the issue of existence before considering quality; it’s impossible to provide the best to citizens from the start, that’s fantasy, not reality."

"Yet, some people will always use various propaganda means to claim they will give people better than the best, just to gain public support, oust those genuinely solving the existence issue for civilians, eventually leaving people with nothing." Though he’s always been an Assassin, Ezio is not someone with only brute force in his mind.

As a former progressive youth, Ezio has deep insights into society and politics, keenly knowing what the people really need.

"Yes, thus democracy sometimes isn’t as beautiful as you imagine; once democratic election systems develop into politicians unscrupulously pleasing voters rather than competing based on their abilities, the system transforms into a massive cancer." Perfikot deeply felt this way; one of the former world’s two extremes transformed into such a cesspit.

Reflecting on this, Perfikot lamented to Ezio: "Even if a person’s talent and self-control are strong, it’s impossible to eternally ensure the nation continually progresses, that the nation he leads does not fall.

At such times, what the nation needs is an enemy, an equally matched, mutually deterred adversary, driving both sides to continuously enhance themselves trying to overwhelm the other."