PRESIDENT Alamardin looked over the reports laying on his polished ebony desk. One, a diplomatic missive, had offered assistance and promised not to bring in any ideological influence beyond a "general distaste for Bolshevism". He eyed it intently, reading it twice.
"Your Excellency, are you sure they're not going to spread subversive ideology once they get here?"
"Don't worry about anyone's ideology," Alamardin answered. "We respect free speech. This isn't a dictatorship any more... besides, we're having problems with Communists who won't respect the political process, and they offered to help."
At that, a firestorm broke out in the President's Office.
"And you would risk a country that hasn't recanted its Nazi past spreading hate speech in our country?"
"The President's right! Would we turn away from the democracy we so soon won?"
"It isn't about free speech. The Right has always wanted creeping fascism in our country."
Alsa Lao, who under the laws of Diyaristan had become vice-president on account of representing the second-largest party, was in the room as well. "There's another letter from Of-Ulstingrad that should cause you concern, Excellency. I received a notice trying to cause national division. Just so we're clear, I did publicly disavow anyone in my party who might try to force a split in the governing coalition. The President saved my life when he didn't have to. He really is committed to democracy, no matter how wrong his ideas are..."
"And what's to say the Right isn't pushing the country back toward fascism by giving it a platform? Why shouldn't we..."
"You sound just like one of the Communists."
The Cabinet argument went on for hours. One Cabinet member from the SLP stormed angrily out of the meeting. In a joint statement, President Alamardin and Vice-President Lao rejected the idea of breaking the Nationalist-Social Liberal coalition government. A faction of the SLP, upon hearing this, saw it as an example of their leader caving in to fascism.
An editorial in the Progressive Nation, a paper owned by an SLP member, took up the position of "total hostility to the Nationalists and Marxists that are threatening to destroy democracy again."
"Your Excellency, are you sure they're not going to spread subversive ideology once they get here?"
"Don't worry about anyone's ideology," Alamardin answered. "We respect free speech. This isn't a dictatorship any more... besides, we're having problems with Communists who won't respect the political process, and they offered to help."
At that, a firestorm broke out in the President's Office.
"And you would risk a country that hasn't recanted its Nazi past spreading hate speech in our country?"
"The President's right! Would we turn away from the democracy we so soon won?"
"It isn't about free speech. The Right has always wanted creeping fascism in our country."
Alsa Lao, who under the laws of Diyaristan had become vice-president on account of representing the second-largest party, was in the room as well. "There's another letter from Of-Ulstingrad that should cause you concern, Excellency. I received a notice trying to cause national division. Just so we're clear, I did publicly disavow anyone in my party who might try to force a split in the governing coalition. The President saved my life when he didn't have to. He really is committed to democracy, no matter how wrong his ideas are..."
"And what's to say the Right isn't pushing the country back toward fascism by giving it a platform? Why shouldn't we..."
"You sound just like one of the Communists."
The Cabinet argument went on for hours. One Cabinet member from the SLP stormed angrily out of the meeting. In a joint statement, President Alamardin and Vice-President Lao rejected the idea of breaking the Nationalist-Social Liberal coalition government. A faction of the SLP, upon hearing this, saw it as an example of their leader caving in to fascism.
An editorial in the Progressive Nation, a paper owned by an SLP member, took up the position of "total hostility to the Nationalists and Marxists that are threatening to destroy democracy again."
War Correspondent's View
Translation provided by Diyara News Service English.
I'm embedded here with the Diyaristani military as it moves toward the terrorist-affected areas. We're informed that two groups, homegrown DCTs as well as Brukean terrorists, are operating in these mountains. We're at a small village called Dirizlaq.
Okay, we're going into the village now. And... Allah save us. Guys, guys, something looks wrong here. There are no people.
[background noise] No people?
No people anywhere. It's like a ghost town.
[background noise] Here? Are you serious?
[background noise, loud explosion]
[background noise] I feel strange..
[background noise] Sir, sir, you might be going into shock. It was a landmine. Get this man to the evac truck, immediately.
Further to the west, DNS reported how the government is struggling to provide basic services and protection to the growing numbers of displaced people across the country. The humanitarian crisis has also caused security officials to be concerned about DCT infiltration in the cities, where yesterday in Darullah an explosive device went off at a shopping mall, killing 93 people and injuring another 212.
Villages this far from the disaster areas are not supposed to be deserted...
Late that night, a strange black man came to the cave where the people's revolutionary forces were staying. I had attempted to reach Hival-17 about what we should do, and a comrade managing to get into the filthy city had sent my message on to Hival. This man said he was an emissary from the People's Revolutionary Front. From what he said, the PRF was supposed to be a revolutionary organization fighting against the Brukean imperialists, and they wanted alliance with us. We awaited instructions from the center on whether the PRF was a revisionist or factionalist group, and if it were, whether it was merely a mistake capable of ideological self-criticism.
We had to inform the PRF liaison (possible spy?) that he needed to be searched in case of hidden cameras or microphones, but he was welcome to stay with us as long as he told fully what the ideology of his organization stood for. What we didn't say was this was to test for hidden ideological deviances from Marxism-Leninism, and it was part of the self-criticism process of the party to correct reactionary culture.
Prepared statement:
"Comrade, thank you for being forthright. We will now explain our side of the story.
We had reactionary peoples trying to worm their way into the revolutionary organization before. The traitors like Istiyar nearly destroyed the revolution for social equality inside the communist party itself by pursuing the path of parliamentarist vote-whoring. We took our party back to Marxism-Leninism and fought the sources of the reactionary culture, the city-dwellers, the Arab reactionary people with bad connections, the fake communist parties."
Now to write about military operations:
A copy of Allanea's evil plot to strangle the proletariat fell into our hands. Fortunately, comrades, they published it openly. To quote the enemy, they said they "will continue our operations in a surgical, precise manner," meaning a weakness to exploit. It only takes a few comrades to run thousands of class enemies out of towns, but we fear that might change when they start arming the urban parasites. We do not work in a "surgical, precise manner" toward the bourgeoisie and their lackeys, and the red terror is making lots of parasites flee the revolution and cause traffic jams, as well as tying up Diyaristani enemy soldiers.
Psyops targeting enemy reactionary peoples should focus on the fate of anyone who does not accept the revolution or fight the government. The wealth of the town and city parasites, which is great, will all be redistributed to the rural poor. Arabs in all places, capitalist landlords and bourgeois urbanists will be tortured since they will never join us, and this will make an example to other potential enemies.
We had to inform the PRF liaison (possible spy?) that he needed to be searched in case of hidden cameras or microphones, but he was welcome to stay with us as long as he told fully what the ideology of his organization stood for. What we didn't say was this was to test for hidden ideological deviances from Marxism-Leninism, and it was part of the self-criticism process of the party to correct reactionary culture.
Prepared statement:
"Comrade, thank you for being forthright. We will now explain our side of the story.
We had reactionary peoples trying to worm their way into the revolutionary organization before. The traitors like Istiyar nearly destroyed the revolution for social equality inside the communist party itself by pursuing the path of parliamentarist vote-whoring. We took our party back to Marxism-Leninism and fought the sources of the reactionary culture, the city-dwellers, the Arab reactionary people with bad connections, the fake communist parties."
Now to write about military operations:
A copy of Allanea's evil plot to strangle the proletariat fell into our hands. Fortunately, comrades, they published it openly. To quote the enemy, they said they "will continue our operations in a surgical, precise manner," meaning a weakness to exploit. It only takes a few comrades to run thousands of class enemies out of towns, but we fear that might change when they start arming the urban parasites. We do not work in a "surgical, precise manner" toward the bourgeoisie and their lackeys, and the red terror is making lots of parasites flee the revolution and cause traffic jams, as well as tying up Diyaristani enemy soldiers.
Psyops targeting enemy reactionary peoples should focus on the fate of anyone who does not accept the revolution or fight the government. The wealth of the town and city parasites, which is great, will all be redistributed to the rural poor. Arabs in all places, capitalist landlords and bourgeois urbanists will be tortured since they will never join us, and this will make an example to other potential enemies.
