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April 2002

Political Unity Act

The Political Unity Act, which was passed by the Congress of Soviets on the 15th, has just been uploaded to the law section of our site. By an overwhelming 90% the Congress of Soviets voted to bring back the Communist Party of the Soviet Union as the only legal party in the U.S.S.R.

If the Soviet Union is to remain truly democratic it is now more important than ever that the new constitution also be passed by the C.o.S. as this will turn the U.S.S.R. into a direct democracy, and thus prevent the C.P.S.U. from trying to dominate the government at the expense of independents. The move also may help the process of forgiveness between old time rivals Red Liberator and Yuri Andropov as their respective political parties will be merged with the C.P.S.U. and thus no longer be in competition with each other. Andropov posted an apology earlier in the week following his conviction, which was broadly welcomed by all.

Posted by Siberian Fox

Trial of Yuri V. Andropov Over!

Mmmm Wensleydale cheese sandwiches made with fresh soft bread that has a nice crusty crust... but enough about my lunch, (which as you might be able to tell I am enjoying) last night comrade Justice Sokath delivered the long awaited verdict on the trial of comrade Andropov taking into account the circumstances surrounding the case, including time already served. Here's what he had to say:

"In light of Comrade Grozni's absence, Cromien and I have agreed upon a final ruling in the Yuri trial. Incidentally, this was Comrade Grozni's last suggestion as punishment, however, as he is not here to deliver it, I will do so.

April 12, 2002

We, members of the Soviet Tribunal do find the defendant, Yuri V. Andropov (a.k.a. Keith) guilty, of his own admission, of all charges brought against him. However, due to the strange circumstances of this trial (citing the fact that the defendant was banned for two weeks), the punishment will be minimal.

Yuri V. Andropov will be placed on a probationary period, which will be effective starting immediately. The defendant will not be allowed to hold the office of President/Chairman of the C.E.C., Chairman or Deputy Chairman of the Congress of Soviets for the duration of his probation, which will be 31 days as of the time of the announcement of the sentence. However, his special tag "Electronically Tagged Criminal" must be removed after the probationary period as it is a degrades his person, a punishment prohibited by Soviet Law.

/me bangs gavel!"

For those comrades who can't be bothered to do the maths, the probationary period ends on the 13th of May at 23:14 hours. The sentence is certain to scupper Andropov's hopes of running for Chairman of the Central Executive Committee at the end of this month, but it will be possible for him to challenge the new chairman in the following month if he so wishes.

Posted by Siberian Fox

Imagine

Please try not to despair at the great length of this message. I am grateful to all those who take the time to read it, but if you don't, you have my forgiveness.

Imagine there's no heaven
It's easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people
Living for today...

Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace...

You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will be as one

Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world...

You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will live as one

- John Lennon

A famous song, and not one that everyone on this site is particularly fond of as I recall. Nevertheless I personally find it an inspiring if somewhat simplistic plan for communism and world peace, and one, which I am playing as I write this.

I haven't done an enormous amount of posting lately - though the few posts I have made seem to have started some threads of reasonable length - but I have done quite a bit of thinking about our little place here at soviet-empire.com.

Around this time last year soviet-empire.com was a hive of activity for different reasons, not really any more posts than there are today, but there was a certain buzz about the place. I would actually get up early in the morning and check my e-mail before I ate breakfast, I would miss lectures at university to work on the website, and reading the forums was the last thing I did at night. It would be fair to say that I had no life. By the Summer I was pretty much burnt out and anyone who can remember back then or reads the F.T.M. archives will know about the staging of my "death" so I could have three days off, after which I "rose from the dead" (it's a miracle, etc). Since then I've never spent as much time on the website and community and have gradually lost interest, culminating in my recent "what's the point?" posts and suggestion to close the yahoo-group. Sometime last year Jon (A_Monk) told me about another Webmaster at the Guru of 3D website who spent all his time on the website and eventually "cracked". He quit his site in order to "get his life back before its too late", but after a month or so of not making his site he realised that the Guru of 3D was part of his life, and its what he wanted to do, so he went back to it.

I'm already rambling on, but my point is that even though I seem to have run out of enthusiasm for our site, I've put too much into it to just let it go. So I started looking for a reason for doing this. Erik's reply that we had a forum where people were able to express their beliefs without being persecuted struck a chord somewhere, as did Sergei's reply that there always needed to be a U.S.S.R. somewhere... whether one views it for better or for worse, the hearts and minds of millions of people went into building the Soviet Union. They worked and they died for something that they thought would last forever, and that eventually the vision of communism, world peace and equality for all might be realised.

So where am I going with all of this? Well, when I got to Cromien's reply I realised what was missing. Cromien posted about how the need for contact with other simulated countries for the U.S.S.R. to have any meaning, and it reminded me of something quite different. The P.R.N.S.E. "fantasy" country that used to run on soviet-empire.com had similar contacts, but that wasn't what made it special. The P.R.N.S.E. - however spuriously - claimed to be a real country located in a suburb of the city of Bristol, England. It had an element of pride attached to it in a way that a simulation could never have. There were photographs of the buildings there, and all the time people came up with project ideas on their own and together about how to further prestige of the nation. I would never want to go back to the same situation as the P.R.N.S.E. was in, as I do rather hate nationalism, and one more nation state only makes the world that little bit more divided, but I would like to work towards something practical, something that one can touch, not "virtual" or "simulated".

This is why I began with the Lyrics to John Lennon's song "Imagine". What would the good people here say to doing everything possible to set up the worlds first "International country"? Keeping the name C.C.C.P. as it doesn't imply any specific geographic location, but ditching everything "virtual". I'm not proposing any of us start an armed struggle in our neighbourhoods, but to do something like take photographs of the areas where we live just to lay claim to them as not the property of our capitalist states but as the property of our Communist Union, even issue our own passports.

Why? Because the end of capitalism is a long, long way off, but in our own little way we would be making communism come that little bit sooner by raising awareness of our Global Country, and creating a spirit of unity amongst people on different sides of national boundaries making friends along the way.

The objective? That in years to come there will be thousands of people who are proud to say: "I live in the Soviet Union". We run our own government and show the rest of the world that our C.C.C.P. is truly a force for good, and lay to rest the misconceptions of communism being misery, dictatorship and degradation.

I couldn't think of a more ambitious project, but if we manage it then it would be a magnificent achievement. By now I expect most people are thinking I have completely lost my mind, but if your interested e-mail me your thoughts, or leave a message on the forum/yahoo-group.

Posted by Siberian Fox

Democratic Alliance for Defence

Sir Humphrey, who claims to represent the British government, submitted the following article to FTM:

Her majesties government today expressed alarm over the dissolution of several political parties with in the Soviet Union.

'This political repression' stated the Prime Minister Lord Harrington 'Is all the more reason for us to press ahead with closer involvement with the DAD united front. We've seen what we can do with the USSA, and what true of them is true of Canada or Libya yes even the USSR itself!'

The Prime Minister the Chief Architect of the recently founded Democratic Alliance for Defence is expected to use this incident to plough home further expansion of DAD powers in relation to Unified Military Nuclear Command and Economic Central Planning in the up coming third round of DAD talks. His popularity among member states increases, leading some to speculate that he may indeed be the first DAD General Secretary, to be popularly elected this June.

On our forums there has been a request to see some sort of website or similar to show that the "Democratic Alliance for Defence" is something tangible before the Soviet government is prepared to take it seriously.

Posted by Siberian Fox

Congress of Soviets

The polls have closed and the votes have been counted from the election for chairman of the second Congress of Soviets. The results were as follows:

Siberian Fox: 60%

Conrad Cromien: 30%

Fidel Nico: 0%

Spoiled ballot papers: 10%

Although on it's own it wouldn't have made a difference to the outcome, it is interesting to note that Conrad Cromien didn't vote. However, nor did party comrade Sokath, showing that the strength of the People's Revolutionary Party is certainly not at it's full potential. Especially given the low turnout, had the whole party been unified and active it could have had a dramatic effect on the election.

The Second Congress of Soviets has now begun on the web discussion forum - all are welcome to take part.

Posted by Siberian Fox

Nationalities Affairs

Just completed, the Commissariat of Nationalities Affairs webpage is now up and details some the tasks of the commissar for Nationalities. Also included in the webpage are the links that were previously on the "Regions and Republics" webpage.

Posted by Siberian Fox

U.S.S.A. Surrenders

The United States of America today retook complete control of the Western rebel states brining to an end a brief period of communist rule there. Contact with comrade Kuralyov who had been heading the communist government there was lost some weeks ago, and yesterday the Central Executive Committee of the U.S.S.R. removed its recognition of the Western Seaboard of the U.S. as being an independent socialist nation.



The new commissariat of Foreign Affairs webpage has been updated accordingly.

Posted by Siberian Fox

Site Updates

Another complete change on the website, now it's summer (well almost) away with the doom and gloom of the black background and in with the new bright colour scheme. In fact this is the first time soviet-empire.com has ever had a white background and black text *gasps from the crowd*. As well as pretty pictures I've also uploaded the Deadbeat Comrade Act to the law section of the site.

Posted by Siberian Fox

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