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Re: Trigunia

Postby Drax » Sun Nov 01, 2020 4:55 am

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Food and Agriculture Minister E.O. Pervukhina

NATIONALIZING POULTRY?

Kronkirchen, August 11, 4839: Citizen Evrosinia O. Pervukhina, Minister of Food and Agriculture, today attended a conference at Kronkirchen Automotive Headquaters in Kronkirchen of agricultural transportation and grocery chain executives together with Food and Agriculture Ministry managers located in Brakav Federal Socialist Republic. When asked about poultry nationalization rumors, she responded:

The rumors are pretty much exaggerated. In the first place the actual discussions have not been about nationalizing the entire poultry and egg business but rather whether to expand our state farm or sovkhoz operations into chickens. The discussions occurred because the packaged chicken market is not doing well and certain economic theorists have been wanting state farms to simply get into the market and replace a failing industry.

Let me be clear. The Krasnyy Trigunskiy Soyuz coalition government is not against nationalizing industries. We do not however regard nationalizing as the solution to every economic problem. In point of fact, the depressed market is caused quite simply and understandably by overproduction by large poultry producers. The prices naturally are down and will be there for a while. We considered the effect of getting into poultry production, but producing more of an overproduced product will simply depress prices farther and aggravate the problem.

Even just producing poultry for consumption by state farm employees would reduce the demand and hence the prices would continue to fall. What we are going to do is have state farms begin to keep Trigunian Orlov chicken fowl for the purpose of egg production for state farm use. Our expectation is that egg prices will not be more than minutely effected. This will have two main purposes.

First, we will see whether having light brown eggs encounters any serious prejudice by consumers who grocery concerns keep telling us consumers will never buy them when white eggs are available. Second, should the large poultry producer executives make a miscalculation in the other direction and we find ourselves with a shortage, we will be in a position to shift to using Trigunian Orlovs to fill the gap.

It would be nice if the overproduction mistake meant large poultry production management would lose their bonuses and stock options but we fully expect instead that workers will bear the brunt of the losses. And small farmers and farm labor will see less income. This will be a problem for the safety net. But not one that nationalizing will solve.


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Re: Trigunia

Postby Drax » Sat Nov 07, 2020 12:14 am

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SGB Headquarters

PRIESTS CALL FOR DISBANDING SGB

Traktorgrad, July 17, 4832: Citizen T. P. Vasilevskaya, Chair of the People’s Assembly, was in Traktorgrad meeting with the original cell of Krasnyy Narodnyy Soyuz and visiting the annual Veterans‘ Flower Show in the Hulstrian sector. Asked about whether a socialist international, comintern or Metzist international was still a possibility, she replied:

We are certainly open to one and think it would be beneficial. There are several organizations which could serve as a vehicle for discussion by socialist and parties. It looks instead however that other socialist parties are pretty much mired up like we are in trying to develop socialism in one counry. We do continue to hope one day there will be a socialist international.

When asked what the government was planning to to do about the call by priests to disband the State Security Service (SGB), Comrade Vasilevshkaya answered:

Well, let us get a little perspective. The Terran Patriarchal Church is not demanding anything of the sort. The priest, Sergei M. Smerdyakov, the Rector of St. Vladimir’s in Spask, Federal Socialist Republic of Vrosnok, is in sermons calling for the disbanding of the SGB. A few of his parishioners and four other priests have publicly voiced support for this position.

The government has heard this criticism but regards this as freedom of speech, unwise and ill informed speech, but simply opinion. Some will recall he led St. Vladimir’s in insisting it would not pay taxes. But then it did. Father Smerdyakov has not called for the overthrow of the government. He knows where the line is and does not cross it.

We know there can be concern about the SGB. At one time the government had the paramilitary force called the National Guard which it wielded along with other police and intelligence assets to shurt down sex trafficking and later round up and inter leftists. We have abolished this paramiltary force.

The actual issue in the SGB is whether the Border Guard should continue under SGB, be eliminated as redundant in view of the Coastal Units of the Navy or turned over to the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

The SGB oversees foreign espionage, counterintelligence, cyber security, and maintains the capacity for special operations. It also oversees the Border Guards and the Bashnya Regiment which provides protection for government officials.

The public references say it reports to me. Not exactly. The People’s Assembly Chair, Foreign Minister and Finance Minister select the Director from a list of no more than five from the personnel office of SGB. The Supreme Chair must approve. The SGB may be given intelligence assignments by the Ministries and reporting is to the Cabinet or a portion deemed appropriate by the Supreme Chair. This has worked to date.

So we are not abolishing the SGB despite Father Smerdyakov feeling discomfort.

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Re: Trigunia

Postby Drax » Sun Nov 08, 2020 4:45 pm

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Tu - 142 MZ

NAVY BUYING MORE ASW AIRCRAFT

Kaiserburg, May 17, 4843: After a meeting in Kaiserburg between Armed Forces General Staff personnel and Anti Submarine Warfare Command staff, Citizen A.A. Zhdanov, Minister of Defense, issued the following statement:

The Defense Ministry will purchase an additional 10 Tu -142 MZ ASW aircraft to be stationed with the 16th Air Wing at the air base attached to the Kaiserburg Naval Base where Anti Submarine Warfare Command is headquartered. The Tu-142 was developed by the Tumirorich Design Bureau from a Tu-95 bomber by stretching the fuselage to accommodate antisubmarine warfare, avionics, reconnaissance and communications equipment. The Tu-142MZ has improvements over the TU-142 prototypes in the form of reinforced undercarriage, greater weaponry, increased payload, and greater range.

Why now? These are troubled times internationally but does not every administration say that? Be that as it may, rather than look provocative we ran cyber simulations of an attack on our Socialist Republic. The scenario was that a rogue power at least equal in strength to our own decided to attack our Ahmadi population, roughly 10% of our general population, and their religious facilities; whether the rogue power was an Ahmadi faction, Hosnian, or anti religious was not considered. What the selection meant was nuclear weapons would not be used to avoid widespread casualties throughout Keris or outside the target population. Further, intelligence would be needed as to locations which could lead to early warning, and ICBM’s would be unlikely.

The results which played out this week were something being up was readily detected by SGB but what was very elusive. The approaching fleet was intercepted and two versions played out; when the aggressors made an all out attack on our fleet, all carriers on both sides were lost. When the aggressors were more cautious both fleets were essentially in defensive mode. Between our Air Force and Navy, our air superiority units made bomber and air to land assault casualties fairly low. And then there were submarines. Missile based submarines made serious hits on our targeted population and facilities at the expense of the loss of the submarines involved.

Obviously this is not all good news but it is certainly useful information for planning, budgeting and priority setting.

The Defense Ministry is still considering consolidating the Green Sea Flotilla and the Anantonese Ocean Fleet, still looking at whether to keep using the Rodshyadam, looking at whether our missile defense system needs overhauling, and still considering the extent to which the Border Guard and the Naval Coastal Troops overlap in function and create redundancy.

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Re: Trigunia

Postby Drax » Sun Nov 08, 2020 9:01 pm

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Foreign Minster H.A. Tereshchenko

FOREIGN POLICY UPDATE

Rodshyadam, June 20, 4843: Foreign Minister H.A. Tereshshchenko met today with Defense and Foreign Ministry and some embassy staff at the National Defense Command Center. When asked about the possibility of a socialist international he replied.

There is no change in our policy on this matter. We remain open to one.

Comrade Tereshchenko also addressed the concept of unaligned but engaged:

When this policy was formulated, there were either two or three blocs of nations actively competing to be in charge of Terra; this is no longer the case so frankly comrades the concept is out of date. And we are debating the merits of isolating ourselves and pursuing socialism in one country, a slow and difficult process, or more actively trying to find trading partners, a second choice.

We have some non aggression pacts and free trade agreements. As matter of strict fact, we have five mutual defense treaties. This was a matter of debate some years ago since only one of the five is a socialist power. Today, only two are in much of a position to ask for help.

So there is a nightmare scenario. There is a lightning strike on a nation with whom we have a mutual defense treaty which is defeated rather quickly; before we can do anything or provide any help. What do we do? Go to the Security Council or World Congress? I think rather not. So what do we do?

Let me say our intelligence does not currently indicate there are active threats to us or those to whom we are obligated for mutual defense. The party leaders advocating war against all Ahmadi and Majatrans are out of power and the nation they once ruled could not have seriously injured us if we were even in their sights.

The most recent intelligence of interest is some group trying to start oil war. Is that a price war, supply war or war by or against oil producing nations. We do not know. So it goes. We are listening. But frankly comrades, the SGB does not believe this is very credible.
When asked if current affairs warrant precautions, the Defense Minister replied:

Well yes, the Armed Forces of Trigunia are on a higher alert status so that more aircraft and naval vessels than usual are patrolling with a view to detecting any unusual movement in our direction, and all our armed forces are on standby should hostile activity be detected. Just because we put thatch on our roof does not mean the wolves have gone away.

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Re: Trigunia

Postby Drax » Thu Nov 12, 2020 11:29 pm

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Citizen E.O. Pervukhina

PAN TERRAN ACTIVITY

Rodshyadam, July 11, 4845: Today Citizen Evrosinia O. Pervukhina, Minister of Food and Agriculture, met with the staff overseeing the interagency task force collecting for the international Gene and Seed Project. Comrade Pervukhina told reporters:

The Gene and Seed Vault Project has been probably the best thing that has happened to international relations in our lifetime. Usually there is dreary news of some nation’s leadership oppressing its population and nations insisting on conflict rather than peace. Why would our people and especially our school children want to be part of a Terra that acts like this Terra.

Our Socialist Republic was proud to be among those contributing to the recovery of Kundrati after it was attacked militarily. But even that is just trying to get back where we were.

The Gene and Seed Vault Project is different. The people of over a dozen nations are now working together to insure that the other inhabitants of Terra that share this planet with our contentious and often irresponsible species will not be lost and forgotten.

Our schoolchildren are on field trips finding the species that share our nation. Well, you say, we are letting the children play international scientist; isn’t that special. Not at all comrades, the children of our nation are locating the habitats of species our task force has not been able to locate. Our young are involved in vital work to make the project a success.

And they know it and for probably the first time feel they are working with the whole of Terra to do something good. Our people are truly thankful to Seleucia for letting us be part of this project.


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Re: Trigunia

Postby Drax » Sun Nov 15, 2020 10:18 pm

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SUBMARINE SEARCH AND TARGETING SYSTEMS UPGRADE

National Defense Command Center, January 22, 4847: At the request of Vice Admiral Arkady V. Yezhov, Assistant Chief of Staff for Naval Air, Tumirovich Design Bureau has been working on a submarine detection upgrade for the Tu – 142 MZ.

After silencing technology rendered traditional sonar less useful in submarine detection, explosive sound systems were developed to be used to locate deeply submerged submarines resulting in the Udar – 75 search and targeting device employed on the Tu – 142 MZ. The Udar -75 has been replaced by a newer target acquisition system for detecting surface and submerged submarines and communication with other ASW aircraft and its home base. Tumirovich has now developed the Zarechye sonar system compatible with the newest sonar buoys and achieving 50% more coverage.

The Defense Ministry and the General Staff of the Armed Forces have approved the recommendation of the Navy Staff for the 20 Tu-142 MZ bombers of the 16th Air Wing stationed with Anti Submarine Warfare Command at Kaiserburg Naval Base to be rotated one by one for upgrading with Zarechye Sonar at Tumirovich Design Bureau, part of the State Aircraft Corporation.

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Re: Trigunia

Postby Drax » Sun Nov 22, 2020 9:46 pm

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Comrade A.A. Zhdanov

WHERE GOES BORDER GUARD SERVICE

National Defense Command Center, July 17, 4850: For some time there have been questions in the Central Committee of the People’s Assembly about whether the Border Guard and the Coastal Defense Troops of the Navy do not in fact have duties that overlap and make one or the other redundant. At a meeting today in the National Defense Command Center of officials of the State Security Service (SGB) including the Border Guard Directorate, the Defense Ministry, the Naval Staff, the General Staff of the Trigunian Armed Forces, and the Internal Affairs Ministry, this question was at least partially resolved. Speaking on behalf of all agencies present, Comrade A.A. Zhdanov, the Defense Minister, reported:

The customs, immigration, and maritime “coast guard” duties of the Border Guard Service simply have no counterpart in the Coastal Defense formations of the Navy which are primarily coastal artillery and anti aircraft units. Accordingly, the government is no longer considering merging the two in the Navy or otherwise incorporating the Border Guard Service into Defense Ministry.

Still unresolved is whether the Border Guard Service will remain in SGB which more and more sees itself as a cyber security and espionage entity or be transferred to the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

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Re: Trigunia

Postby Drax » Tue Nov 24, 2020 8:46 pm

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BORDER GUARDS SELECT PATROL BOAT

SGB HQ, Rodshyadam, August 22, 4851: The Twelfth Chief Directorate of the State Security Service (SGB) which is in charge of the Border Guard Service announced today that after considering several designs available from the State Shipbuilding Corporation, the standard port and coastal patrol boat will be the Sobol Class Patrol Boat. It will be able to function in ports, coastal and other littoral areas performing duties of law enforcement, protection of maritime borders, defense missions, search and recue and fishery protection.

Sobol Class Patrol Boats is armed with a 14.5 mm machine gun, a 30 mm grenade launcher and a surface to air missile system and can have additional armament. It carries a smaller boat for boarding and search and rescue. It is fast with high navigability and maneuverability. This class displaces 56 long tons, has a 1.34 meter draft, has a length of 30.3 meters and a beam of 5.82 meters.

It is propelled by two diesel engines with a speed of 48 knots and a range of 500 nautical miles. The Sobol Class Patrol Boat has a crew of six.

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Re: Trigunia

Postby Drax » Fri Nov 27, 2020 6:15 am

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Foreign Minister H.A. Tereshchenko

IS SOCIALIST INTERNATIONAL POSSIBLE?

Rodshyadam, August 20, 4854: Foreign Minister H.A. Tereshshchenko today indicated that there was renewed interest in a socialist international both in the Krasnyy Trigunskiy Soyuz coalition government and in several other socialist governments. Comrade Tereshchenko stated:

Supreme Chair Martov Pavlovich wishes to make another push to establish a socialist international or comintern. So the government will make another effort. We note there are several organizations, most notably the Socialist and Democratic International, which could readily serve as a vehicle for this purpose.

We have long supported this concept and always believed there are those in other nations who do as well. We do have reason to believe some of the voices we are hearing will come together.
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Re: Trigunia

Postby Drax » Sat Nov 28, 2020 4:48 pm

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Citizen T.A. Vasilevskaya

BASHNYA REGIMENT AND BORDER GUARDS REMAIN WITH SGB

SGB HQ, Rodshyadam, May 15, 4853: Citizen T.A. Vasilevskaya, Chair of the People’s Assembly, today met with State Security Service (SGB) officials and afterwards made the following announcement:

The Bashnya Guards Regiment is an Army regiment of the Trigunian Armed Forces assigned to the SGB to guard the center of government and the primary officials thereof. SGB Personnel Office does screen carefully troops assigned prior to actual arrival. It is a prestigious regiment of capable combat soldiers on protective and ceremonial duty. The regimental commander will continue operationally to report to the Commandant of the Basnya who is immediately resposible to the SGB Director. Contrary to speculation, neither the regimenrtal commander nor the Commandant will report directly to an Army command.

Further the much discussed Border Guard Service will remain under the 12th Chief Directorate of the SGB. Many in the Central Committee and Cabinet have suggested the customs, immigration and maritime coast guard type duties would warrant transfer to the Finance, Internal Affairs or Defense Ministry. The decision has been made that the counter intelligence functions militate against such transfer.

With respect to the perennial queston of whether we have secret police; no we do not. We do have the 7th Directorate which has the authority to exercise population surveillance. The 7th Directorate operates entirely within the criminal law surveillance parameters. A more legitimate question is why we have a counter intelligence and a population surveillance directorate within the SGB. That is worth studying.

Why the press and public keep asking to whom the SGB reports can only be attributable to not being willing to listen to my past explanations. Perhaps they were overly complicated. Finally, the Supreme Chair is in overall charge. Today and for the immediate future I am in operational command of the SGB.


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