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Re: Kalopikós Erythrós Astéras (Kalopian Red Star)

Postby Polites » Tue Jun 06, 2017 10:14 am

Secretary-General Slams Reformists
Xanthopoulos criticizes incorrect appreciation of the role of the Vanguard in the People's Revolution

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Secretary-General Xanthopoulos had harsh words against the "Social Democratic" opportunists

April 4222 - A new revolutionary force has joined the Command Council, the body grouping together the progressive forces of the September Revolution with the purpose of coordinating the local Vanguardships and providing national guidance to the people's direct democracy. But the League of Social Democratic Vanguards, as this new force is called, is not truly revolutionary and has cast doubt on the very foundation of the People's Revolution. As Aniketos Xanthopoulos, the Secretary-General of the Command Council of Revolutionary Socialist Vanguardships forcefully explains, the Social Democrats and their leader Alpyurek Boran paint themselves as utopian socialists by believing that socialism can somehow be built through peaceful means by reform, and they wish to scale back if not outright destroy all the achievements of the Kalopian, Deltarian, Jelbanian, and Jakanian working class who overthrew capitalist oppression in their own nations and joined forces to form the truly international Majatran Revolutionary Socialist Federation.

The Social Democratic revisionists also show themselves to be petty-bourgeois counter-revolutionaries. Deliberately distorting Metzist theory and praxis, as well as the millennia of development of Metzist thought, the Social Democrats argue that, since Kalopia has not yet reached the stage of a bourgeois democracy, it cannot proceed to the next stage in material development, the proletarian revolution. If this is true then the entire foundation of the Vanguardships collapses and our direct democracy becomes nothing more than a reactionary dictatorship with only vague democratic pretenses. But only a cursory reading of millennia of Metzist thought and practice proves the Social Democrats wrong. Where Alpyurek Boran errs is applying dialectical materialism only to the Kalopian context without taking into account the global development of capitalism and its imminent collapse. As Comrade Ştefan Baciu, the Foreign Affairs Minister of the UKSR, explained in the 33rd century, the proper basic unit of scientific socialist analysis should not be the nation state, but the whole Terran-system. As such, advanced bourgeois democracy has already been achieved Terra-wide. The decolonization movement and the decline of Neo-Feudalism has moved capitalist nations from the semi-periphery to the core of the Terran-system, and now Istalia, Vanuku, and Kazulia have replaced Greater Hulstria and the Luthori Empire as the center of the world system. Neo-Feudal nations, who had maintained their mode of production by appropriating the minimum of capitalist practice to procrastinate feudalism's ultimate downfall, either progressed to fully capitalist nations, as in Indrala or Vanuku, or regressed into an Oriental (OOC: Asiatic) mode of production, as can be seen in Mikuni-Hulstria. As such all of Terra has finally moved to a fully capitalist system of production, after a delay of more than two thousand years, and is now ripe for the world proletarian revolution. Which makes Kalopia all the more suited to be the vanguard of the imminent revolution. Under the bourgeois-dominated Terran-system, Kalopia had become a neo-feudal semi-periphery and the center of capitalist exploitation in Majatra, and it was Kalopia and other colonial outposts, not the urban industrialized societies of Istalia and Zardugal, that proved to be the weak points of the system from which the revolt against the capitalist global system succeeded and triumphed, and is now ready to spread to the core.

Thus, they who accuse us of opportunism are the opportunists themselves, as they deny the sharp tasks needed today and dream about soft tasks in the future, abandoning class struggle in the name of some distant future construction of socialism by peaceful means. Our Metzist and Jalalist system of direct democracy and mass socio-economic organization permits and encourages honest and healthy debate, however what the Social Democrats have shown is not honesty, but opportunism and revolt against the people's direct democracy. As such we can only hope that the masses reject this foreign body from their midst and continue on their path of building socialism and preparing the world revolution.
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Re: Kalopikós Erythrós Astéras (Kalopian Red Star)

Postby Reddy » Sat Aug 19, 2017 7:47 am

FCML Seizes Ammopoli
October 4, 4258

The Free Central-Majatran Legion ()FCML a paramilitary formed by Malgus Thaller, a member of the Thaller Family has stunningly seized one of Kalopia's largest cities, the northern city of Ammopoli. In what one commentator has called "one of the great confidence tricks in history" which saw the FCML estimated at between 800 and 1,200 foreign fighters take over the city after somehow managing to convince the local security forces that they had been hired and sent to help with security. Though details remain few, it is speculated that a smattering of terrorist bombing attacks which had shaken the city hours earlier and targeted its communication and infrastructure networks had been orchestrated by Thaller's FCML in order to leave the city momentarily isolated and perpetrate his ruse which included everything from forged government papers and contracts. Some however believe that Thaller simply bribed the local commanders to let him in.

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FCML units entering Ammopoli

Thaller's success in Ammopoli has attracted much attention from a number of foreign and domestic players and he has apparently been offered financial support to hire and train more fighters by a number of his impressed relatives, a certain mega-corporation specialising in the labour trade and a few others including possibly a certain foreign government or three. With Kalopia trapped with a weak caretaker government and gripped by uncertainty over the future of the Majatran Revolutionary Socialist Federation and of course with its ethnic/religious divisions, investors view Thaller's chances of some kind of success as more than fair. So far the 28 year old Thaller said that as a junior member of the Thaller family, he only had a "small" trust fund to fund his operation - a fund thought to be no more than 40 million LOD. This has been supplemented somewhat by "convincing" local banks in Ammopoli to "loan" him their entire cash reserves. His small force is thought to have grown to between 3,000 and 5,000 It is still however hardly enough and Thaller will need more for the road to Eleopolis (the capital)
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Re: Kalopikós Erythrós Astéras (Kalopian Red Star)

Postby Reddy » Sat Aug 19, 2017 6:27 pm

Siphinian Revolt
April 4259

A number of prominent Bejs in Shifinë (western Kalopia) have declared rebellion from Kalopia following the collapse of the Government over its disastrous loss of Ammopoli to Thallerist forces. Bej Edi Fisnik the most powerful tribal leader in Shifinë gathered several other tribal Bejs including some Turjak ones, in Cãsãbã and after much griping over the government's taxes, centralisation and neglect, the Bejs decided to rebel and began arming their tenants and forming their own militias. The tribal leaders have said that they will easily raise 25,000 men to expel the Kalopians from Shifinë and all indications point to this not just being an outlandish goal. Observers wonder just how the Bejs can afford this with some speculating about outside financial support perhaps from a certain adventurer who recently seized Ammopoli and has in the past few months secured much ''investment" from his family.

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Tribal militiamen parading through Cãsãbã

Since his Ammopoli success, Malgus Iii has focused on building his Legion, recruiting thousands of cheap foreign fighters mostly from the Third World - his forces are now estimated at anywhere between 8 and 12,000. The Thallers seem to have taken a decision to divert their resources to Majatra following Malgus III's success in Kalopia and rumours have it that the family has been sending as much as 30 million LOD monthly to cousin Malgus. It appears that the family will also be looking at an attempt on Deltaria another vulnerable nation in central Majatra.
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Re: Kalopikós Erythrós Astéras (Kalopian Red Star)

Postby Reddy » Sun Aug 20, 2017 6:44 am

Siphinians Swear Allegiance To Thaller
August 4259

Dozens of Siphinian tribal chiefs, militia officers and other notabes have sworn allegiance to Malgus Thaller and his Free Central Majatran Legion. This comes after Thaller's visit to Shifine where he met several of the Siphinian notables and proposed an alliance between their causes. Treating the prickly chieftains with all due respect proved a winner for Thaller who also agreed to wed Bej Edi Fisnik's daughter Urani and apparently converted to Halawism to cement the alliance. The Siphinian submission to Thaller is thought to bring around 22,000 men to his cause which will see him now commanding a joint force of just under 50,000. Thaller's own Legion has grown dramatically in the past few months with several foreign players taking an interest in him and investing in his cause. Estimates of the financial aid received in just the past six months range from 400 million to an improbable 2 billion LOD.

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Tyrant Malgus III Thaller

With his enlarged force, control of perhaps two thirds of Siphina and the entire western half of Minosasa, Thaller has declared himself "Tyrant of Kalopia" (a respectable old Kalopian title) and is advancing eastwards with a new offensive into the remaining territory which remains outside his control. The odds are now in his favour, with the rump Kalopian state mired by ethnic and religious divisions as ever, for instance hundreds of Halawi Kalopian troops mutinied in, refusing to fight their rebellious, religious Siphinian brethren in Shifine.
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Re: Kalopikós Erythrós Astéras (Kalopian Red Star)

Postby Reddy » Mon Aug 21, 2017 7:19 am

Thallerist Forces Take The Capital
February 4260

Malgus III's Central Majatran Legion has won control of the Kalopian capital Eleopolis ending a six week siege. Thaller had been besieging the city with some 35,000 troops at his disposal and some obviously upgraded weaponry courteous of the Kafuri ruling family's 10 b donation to his cause. The al-Majalis apparently decided to support Thaller gambling that he would win and restore stability to Kalopia. They had good reason to believe this - it is a fact that areas under Thaller's control are generally governed for firmly and with less civil disorder as that seen in the caretaker government's territories. His love of order was extended to Eleopolis when he forbade his Siphinian commanders and troops to loot the city for three days as is customary. Instead he offered them bonus out of his funds, something accepted most begrudgingly.

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Thallerist forces entering Eleopolis

With the capture of Eleopolis, the caretaker government now only has control over just over a tenth of the country, all of that in the eastern regions of Minosasa and Seshold. The war is for the most part, over. Malgus III has moved quickly to restore normalcy in the country, organising a government in Eleopolis (dominated, like his officer corps by Siphinians and Halawis) sending a force of around 20,000 to secure the rest of the east from the caretaker government and compelling the National Assembly to recognise his rule. The next step is to integrate the Thallerist forces into the Kalopian forces, a most sensitive issue for his Siphinian allies.
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Re: Kalopikós Erythrós Astéras (Kalopian Red Star)

Postby Reddy » Tue Aug 22, 2017 8:14 am

End of War
August 4260

The civil war in Kalopia has ended in a total Thallerist victory following the capture of the last "caretaker" government stronghold of Synorchia, Minosasa. Around 20,000 Thallerist forces supported by an energetic bombing campaign brought the city to its knees and upon taking it, tens of thousands of its citizens appear to have just disappeared into air. The Tyrant's spokesman decried "slurs" by the Human Rights Watch that the disappeared had been sold to the Tyrant's alleged Eilomax sponsors. The Human Rights Watch also claimed that many prisons have been emptied in the past year, another allegation dismissed by the Tyrant as ''Istalian fake news" The Tyrant did not allow the allegations to spoil his Triumphal Parade in the capital which saw him march to the city square at the head of a procession of cages containing several high ranking leaders of the caretaker government. At the square, three dozen of them were strangled with silk cords in rigid compliance with tradition for the obsessively classicist Tyrant Malgus III.


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Captured "rebels"

With the war done, the Tyrant can now focus on other objectives , the most important being re-building the country The civil war while brutal did not cause excessive damage especially in the western half of the country. The Tyrant apparently believes that building strong security forces is the best way to overcome the ethnic and religious divisions that have historically plagued the country. With that in mind, he has begun courting regional powers like Beiteynu and even further ones like Kazulia to help rebuild the country with aid and where necessary, military alliances.
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Re: Kalopikós Erythrós Astéras (Kalopian Red Star)

Postby Reddy » Wed Aug 23, 2017 7:06 am

Tyrant Suppresses Dobargrad Rebellion
February 4261

Tyrant Malgus III Thaller has suppressed what he called a "globalist inspired rebellion" in the Minosasan town of Dobargrad. Dozens of local Kalopian citizens protested against the regime especially the supposedly heavy handed actions of the local Strategos (military commander) Edi Bej Fisnik (the Tyrant's father-in-law) The protest reflected growing Kalopian frustration at what they call the "Siphinian oligarchy" The Thaller government and military forces are dominated by the Siphinian minority and all Strategos appointed so far are Siphinian.

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The notorious "Eye of Thaller painting"

The Dobargradians rebelled and killed 2 soldiers and also ransacked the Strategos' Palace. The Tyrant was much annoyed and vowed to extract a blood price of 100 citizens for each murdered soldier and a fine as well for the damage. He took the field himself and in the end, according to the exile Kalopian Human Rights Observatory, Thaller managed to collect perhaps twice to quadraple his declared blood price in an orgy of bombing the town. Survivors were 'extracted' from the town and have not been seen since. The Kalopian Human Rights Observatory claims that such citizens numbering around 12,000 were sold to Eilomax. The remains of the dead rebels were stripped of flesh and skulls collected and Thaller commissioned a painting whose copies are to be posted publicly in every settlement with more than 500 citizens to remind all of the fate of rebels and malcontents. The painting depicts the Tyrant's benevolent eye cast upon a pyramid of skulls which he himself described as a "warning and promise to all."
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Re: Kalopikós Erythrós Astéras (Kalopian Red Star)

Postby Reddy » Thu Aug 24, 2017 7:27 am

Kalopia Sends Troops to Border With KW
August 4261

Tyrant Malgus III Thaller has deployed around 40,000 troops and a few hundred tanks and other equipment at the border with the breakaway Federal Republic of Kalopia-Wantuni. The Tyrant said that he sought to reclaim Kalopia's eastern provinces and re-unite the country. He said the 4219 declaration of independence had been not illegal and invalid but given how the so called Federal Republic was recognised by only one country, ''its mother Istalia" it clearly was not accepted by the community of nations as a legitimate state.

The move heightens tensions between the two Kalopias, both with powerful backers, Kalopia is backed by its north west Majatran ally Beiteynu which has deployed substantial forces in the country as "military advisors" while KW is backed by its own east Majatran ally Istalia. The Kalopian Human Rights Observatory (operating from neighbouring Jakania in the capital Dokuz has repeated claims that Kalopia is rapidly working on a biological and chemical weapons program with assistance from Beiteynu and warned that if Thaller actually acquired such weaponry, he would not hesitate to use them in any conflict with the breakaway east. It called for a pre-emptive strike by the World Congress to prevent acts of genocide and remove Thaller.

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Alleged blueprints of the Kalopian WMD program

The rumours about Kalopia's alleged WMD program began when a defector who worked in the Kalopian Military Special Projects Department provided alleged blueprints of a secret underground facility in the Kostaq Mountains in central Shifine. Military experts view it to be highly unlikely that the Thallerist regime has already developed WMDs of any kind unless they have had a lot of help from friends. Characteristically however the Kalopian Foreign Ministry replied to questions about a possible WMD program,

What we have is none of your business. We have what we have and are willing and able to use it as necessary to defend and protect our territorial integrity from globalist attacks. We do have a lot of weapons, which are very massive and capable of great destruction.
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Re: Kalopikós Erythrós Astéras (Kalopian Red Star)

Postby Reddy » Fri Aug 25, 2017 7:55 am

Thaller Occupies al-Najd
February 4262

In response to what he described as a "patriotic demand from al-Najd" Tyrant Malgus III Thaller has sent 25,000 troops into the breakaway "Majatran Republic of al-Najd". This was apparently done at the request of the new government of the new republic. Al-Najd broke away following a period of protests thought to have been organised by Eleopolis (Kalopia) The legality of the occupation is questionable despite Thaller describing it as "inspired by Istalian's moves in 4219" (referring to the eastern provinces' declaration of independence in 4219 which was supported by Istalia diplomatically and militarily)

Thaller: Istalia Ripe For A Thallerist Renaissance

The Tyrant on his weekly KTV show ""Random Musings from His Excellency" commented on several foreign issues including the rise of Thallerism in Istalia. He said this was a domestically grown movement as a response to the corruption and uselessness of the Istalian political system. Only with a Thallerist renaissance could Istalian's global destabilisation policies be reined in. On the Kazul-Hustrian war, the Tyrant wished his friends in Kazulia luck and urged it not to hesitate to use its nuclear weapons in order to destroy its southern rival and protect its dominance on the eastern continent of Dovani.. He also "warned" Jakania that the so called refugees were nothing more than Istalian funded terrorists intent on destroying Jakania's internal stability.
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Re: Kalopikós Erythrós Astéras (Kalopian Red Star)

Postby Reddy » Sat Aug 26, 2017 12:06 pm

Thaller To "Leave Politics"
September 4262

Tyrant Malgus III Thaller has, in a shock announcement, declared his plans to leave power in the coming year. The Tyrant announced this at the Thaller Family Summit saying that he was tired of politics and wanted to return to studying military sciences instead. Those skeptical have found their skepticism lessened following the passing of a constitutional amendment to restore the country to democratic rule with a freely elected Archon as head of state.

Perhaps as further proof of his sincerity, Thaller has also withdrawn the 25,000 troops sent to the breakaway KW state of al-Najd although it is believed that hundreds of Kalopian "advisors" remain in al-Najd training the statelet's new army. There has been a large influx of foreign fighters in al-Najd, many of them "Majatran patriots" who want to see the predominantly Ahmadi and ethnic Majatran nation freed of Istalian and Kalopia-Mossavite influence. With regards to Thaller's retirement, foreign watchers are puzzled as ever, given Thaller's remarkable ability to rapidly gravitate from outright insanity and cunning. His offer to "serve in any capacity" troubles many observers who wonder if the conqueror can truly just let the country go free of him.
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