by Sam » Sun Dec 06, 2009 2:22 pm
Viarnassus, Deltaria
July 27, 1954
Anyone who looked at Deltaria before the War would never have predicted that Oldřich Pardubický, scion of one of Darali's oldest noble families, would be the man who was in the central square of Viarnassus right now. He looked like the quintessential revolutionary: ammunition belt slung across his shoulder, rifle in one hand, raised fist in the other, almost impossible to hear over the fanatical cheering of the crowd if it was not for the conveniently placed microphone. He was in the middle of another of his fiery speeches.
"How many times have you labored as a slave in the fields, working endless days and nights to feed your bourgeois masters while you dine on scraps? How many times have you worked in the factory, toiling so your capitalist overlords can become richer while you can't afford to pay for your family? How many times have you killed another man, not for the pursuit of freedom, but to win an imperialist war so the Czar has more proletarians to exploit? No more! Comrades, join me and we will lead Deltaria to the socialist revolution! We will establish a free Deltaria, without any divisions of class, without any divisions of nationality, where everyone will be equal. We will give the land to the people. We will string up the factory managers and the nobles from every lamppost we can find. But we must fight to win our rights."
The crowd cheered wildly.
"Death to the bourgeois! Death to the Trigunian occupiers! Death to the reactionary Smolenak! Long live Free Deltaria!"
He opened up a crate of rifles and ammunition which had been standing next to him, and his comrades distributed them to the crowd. It was just in time.
"This is an illegal demonstration. Disperse immediately."
Twenty-five "Smolenak tanks", pickup trucks with converted anti-aircraft autocannons in the back and men with rifles inside the truck, pulled up and surrounded the demonstrators. The artillery fired high-explosive shells into the crowd, the passengers fired their rifles, and in one minute there were several hundred casualties among the demonstrators. There were only about a hundred people in the trucks and tens of thousands of demonstrators, but the attackers had much better firepower. The demonstrators fired their rifles, some of them sniping at the crews of the trucks, but rifles were no match for artillery. They were pushed back into the center of the square. They fought to the last man, and were destroyed to the last man. Pardubický's body was never found, and presumed to be obliterated by a shell, but his successors in the Communist Party leadership proclaimed he was still alive and in hiding. It did not matter. In the villages, Smolenak's supporters attacked Communists in a similar manner but with smaller numbers. By the end of the week, the Communist Party had been completely destroyed, with the exception of the underground in Cachtice and Sfantul Gheorghe.
"The FSB finally caught him for talking shit about replacing Putin with this "Saiser" character. I'm guessing they're up to his seventh toenail by now."
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