Doom, the Professor of Destruction, or Doom the Mage of Destruction in the future. He was a very smart and daring fellow. He was thick-skinned and extremely narcissistic. It could be seen from the way he named the country he controlled.
The names of various places always liked to be prefixed with Doom. He had branded Latveria with his own deep imprint. But such a narcissistic person had his own persistence, modesty, and pride.
Doom named various scenic spots in the country after himself, as if he had created those landscapes that had been formed over millions of years (such as Doom Forest, Doom Valley). But he gave a different name to the university that he had really created: the University of Science of Latvia.
Science is science, and it doesn't belong to anyone. We just occasionally found the direction and law of some water currents in the vast sea, which is not worth mentioning compared to the entire sea. Be humble in the face of science, never think that you already know all the knowledge in the world, always be a student, always on the road. Only in this way can you benefit from the road of science. The Declaration of Latvia University of Science. This paragraph was written by Doom.
Because of Dum's reverence for science, his extraordinary desire to explore, and the fact that he himself was an outstanding scientist, he was able to make a name for himself. Although Latvia University of Science was only established for 20 years, it was already a first-class school. Although Latvia is not included in international university rankings (due to political reasons).
But the last time Li Jie and Dr. Banner went to Latvia for a visit, Dr. Banner visited the University of Science. He expressed high appreciation for the level of hardware and software of the university: "It is not inferior to New York University or the University of California, Berkeley."
Latvia was a poor small country before Doom came to power. There was no technology industry, and the whole country basically relied on agriculture. Technology and culture were extremely underdeveloped. After Doom came to power, he ruled the country in a dictatorial way (Dr. Banner: actually a bit brutal). But the national strength had improved.
The per capita annual disposable income of Latvia at the time of the collapse of the Soviet Union was 300 US dollars. Now, almost 20 years after Doom came to power, the per capita annual disposable income had increased to more than 38,000 US dollars. The income of the residents had increased by more than a hundred times.
The average annual intake of meat and dairy products has increased from 3.75 kilograms and 13 kilograms respectively during the time of the collapse of the Soviet Union to 115 kilograms of meat and 215 kilograms of dairy products per year (Latvians have the habit of eating cheese, and the conversion ratio of cheese to raw milk is very high).
The per capita electricity generation in Latvia had also soared from 700 kilowatts twenty years ago to 12,000 kilowatts now.
Indeed, Latvia was not free under Dum's rule. He used his own secret police to control the public opinion of the entire country and made all those who dared to oppose him disappear. He was a true dictator.
But what if we look at it from another angle? After the collapse of the Soviet Union, countries, including Russia, were not considered developed countries. Everyone's quality of life was deteriorating. The countries in Eastern Europe were even more miserable. Coups and civil wars continued, and the lives of ordinary people were really not easy.
Although Latvia was a dictatorship, the standard of living was improving every year. According to the standard, Latvia was an advanced and developed country. The per capita consumption of daily necessities such as meat, milk, and electricity was among the highest in the world.
Although it was a small country, the people lived a comfortable life. However, almost all the Western media would deliberately ignore this point when evaluating Latvia.
They would not list these numbers to compare Latvia twenty years ago with the current Latvia. They also did not care whether the people of Latvia liked the days when they came home from work and opened the fridge full of cheese, sausages, and butter.
Or did they prefer the days when they didn't know where to find the next piece of rye bread.
Of course, to the politically oriented media, none of this was important. After all, political correctness was the most important. Li Jie's previous impression of Latvia was mostly from the media. The propaganda portrayed Dum as a militaristic, dictatorial war criminal who forced and exploited his own people. He was simply a heinous supervillain!
Until the start of the super highway project, when Li Jie and Dr. Banner personally went to Latvia and talked to Dum calmly for the first time, Li Jie felt that the media's words could not be fully trusted.
Dum did go too far in some aspects, and he was indeed very dictatorial. But in another aspect, he was good and correct. At least, if it wasn't Dum who came to power twenty years ago, but a "democratic leader" that the western media liked came to power.
Li Jie guessed that the average standard of living of the people of Latvia was probably not as good as the current standard under Dum's rule. Maybe there would even be civil strife?
Besides, Dum was starting to get addicted to magic and was unable to extricate himself. Compared to the identity of the king of Latvia, Dum now wanted to be the Supreme Mage!
He was already thinking of slowly delegating power to Latveria.
Because the more he knew about Dum, Li Jie felt that this person was actually trustworthy. He is not a villain in the traditional sense. Or rather, Dum and Li Jie had a lot in common. They were both people who would do anything to achieve a certain goal.
It was just that Du Mu was much more extreme than Li Jie and more stubborn at the same time. Was Dum bad? Perhaps, but he wasn't bad in the traditional sense. It was the difference in his standards of conduct that caused a deviation in his value perception.
Therefore, Radum joining the Illuminati was an idea that Li Jie had. But at the same time, this idea also required some risks. After all, Dum was not a particularly easy person to get along with. The other people in the Illuminati said that it was no problem for Dr. Banner to join directly. But Dr. Dum needed a probation period, just like an intern.
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