Part One.
Part Two.
Part Three.
Kasrpzak received his membership card pretty soon after and was known as ‘member 83’ on his card, he may not have been one of the original members of the party but he was a key member very quickly as he fed the leadership information on other parties that his colleagues were instructed to sit in on, particularly right-wing parties such as the Nationalist Party and this meant that the WPP could take action whenever the Nationalist Party were having their marches or rallies to try and gain more popularity. They were a bigger party than the WPP by some way, the left wing of Mytanar politics was squabbling amongst itself and only the Social Democrats had any real voice in the government.
This didn’t mean that the WPP couldn’t sabotage the Nationalist’s events, though.
Kasprzak’s diaries detail how he told the main members of the WPP, Yurij Razevhsky and Henrikh Bijiritan of the exact timings of the procession the Nationalists were going to hold, when the main members would be travelling through and what was going to happen afterwards. Kasprzak was not sure how his information would be used but the events that occurred afterward tell us exactly what Razevhsky and Bijiritan decided to do. It would be something which would be extremely helpful in the long-term for the WPP, but not so much in the short term.
Razevhsky and Bijiritan agreed that the inspirational leader of the Nationalists, Tomasz Herceg, would have to be disposed of. He was riling up nationalist anger, which would cause further tensions with other nations in Rushmore and could reignite the war with Swartaz. The last thing any party wanted was the Border War being renewed when Mytannion was under such severe financial pressure. Even the WPP, which was a party that wanted to further the ideas of equality and such around the globe wouldn’t go trying to dictate to other nations when things were extremely bad at home and would not benefit the international situation in the slightest.
Bijiritan delegated to one of the more minor members of the WPP, who is only known because of what he was asked to do. Semir Tuchov was asked to assassinate Herceg and at the end of the procession as Herceg was driving through and saluting his supporters through the streets of Esca, Tuchov was waiting on the pavement – as Herceg passed, Tuchov took out a gun and fired three shots at Herceg in extremely quick succession, the people around him tried to apprehend him but he escaped and was only caught later on.
When Tuchov was caught he was given a life sentence, for murdering Herceg, nationalist tendencies were riled up more as the Nationalist Party used this as propaganda. Making accusations that Tuchov was actually a foreign agent trying to do away with a well known political figure. This made the Nationalists more popular in the short term as more people believed them and their promises in the aftermath of Herceg’s death – but with out their leader, they were pretty much nothing and they could not reach the public in the same way. They no longer had an inspirational speaker who would get into the hearts of all the people and make them agree with his ideals and get them to support his party and eventually get them control of the nation.
The WPP was in a much better position now, their spiritual enemy (although the Nationalists didn’t actually know that), was weakened and a left-wing party, the Social Democrats were miles ahead of anyone in terms of popularity, something which would be helpful to the WPP and something which would in the end be conducive to them taking sole power and Kasprzak eventually becoming the leader of a nation that was resurgent.
Kasprzak’s abilities were greatly appreciated by the party leadership and he was quickly promoted to the role of ‘head of information and propaganda’. His actions began to transform the political party into something which was much more recognisable to those who do not know all that much about Mytanar history or politics. Kasprzak proposed that the party should be renamed to the ‘United Socialist Working Party’, saying that the idea that they were ‘united’ could attract a lot of people away from the other left-wing parties. There were simply too many left-wing parties and it meant that none of them got a majority of the vote which was really needed in order for parties to be successful. The Social Democrats were really the only ones who had any success.
The WPP became the USWP and other things began to change too.
Four days later, Razevhsky, Bijiritan and Kasprzak announced a new 25-point plan for the party. It would be the new manifesto and would really be geared at a more left-wing audience, promoting the idea of redistribution of wealth – something that would be attractive to the poor and could attract a great many new many voters.
This part of the story doesn’t really have many people that I can gain contact with in order to learn more – it seems like very few are actually willing to reveal much on this time as it is really based around the rise of violent measures to achieve the USWP’s aims. Kasprzak proposed that an organised group of ‘security men’ should be put into action – saying they could be disguised as something like the Party’s ‘Sports Division’ or some such. The group was first known as the Ordninskgrupp and their real, intended purpose was to keep order at USWP meeting and also to disrupt the meetings of right-wing parties who had messages that the USWP considered to be undesirable and contradictory to their own ideals – although the USWP leadership would never suggest so and would only let the part about them keeping order at USWP meetings be known to the outside – Kasprzak was still detailing what went on in meetings and did note that this was occurring but played it down heavily, which made sure it did not draw the attention of the Army’s Information Department.
A few months later the group’s name was officially changed to the ‘Sturmskgrupp’, translating as ‘Storm Group’, which was certainly more descriptive and suggested the possibility of offensive, as well as solely defensive, action.
Throughout the following months Kasprzak became more involved in delivering lectures at USWP meetings but also beer halls around Esca, he quit his job at this point in order to pursue the role as a public speaker for the USWP. He took the Sturmskgrupp with him for protection and this meant he often said whatever he wanted in places which would normally have been Nationalist strongholds, but he slowly began to change the tide for his party.
The police were now beginning to keep tabs on the USWP as an ex-colleague of Kasprzak’s had been given the job of writing down everything that was said at USWP meetings and had obviously reported back and began to tell his superiors of the full story. Police records show that Kasprzak delivered speeches with titles such as ‘The Eradication of Poverty’, ‘Why we should have patriotism’ and ‘Workers’ rights’.
At the end of Kasprzak’s first full year of membership in the party, the numbers had swelled to 3,000 members, he had been promoted to third in command in the party, near enough. He was a main figure in the party and was one of the ones who was picking and choosing subjects to discuss. He was close to gaining full control of the party and though this is a relatively short part of the overall story it is key in showing why Kasprzak was almost fast tracked to a high position. He could provide valuable information and was rewarded when he did so.
He was close to the top job and events in the next few months would get him there eventually.
